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Table of Contents
(Click on an underlined section below, to go to it)
Doctrine of How God Orchestrates
Time
Associated Doc and Webpage
Links
Separate Meter-maps for Psalm
90, Isaiah 53, Daniel 9
Greek of Eph 1:3-14 and Metered Translation
Individual
Verses: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Individual verse Notes: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Verse 4's Note on 77 Syllables Meter Tagging
Styles
The Anaphora: eudokian epainon TempleTrio Interplay Overlap 33 sevens 45 sevens 78 sevens 94 sevens
The Assets: apolutrwsin aphesin sophia musterion proetheto prothesin proelpikotas
Pregnancy 1
Pregnancy1b Meter Meaning
Pregnancy 2 Pregnant
14 Palindromes
('Pregnancy'=
accounting precedence for the Rapture)
Paul's Chronology Use of Meter
Chronology
Chart Church
Father Hall of Shame Conclusions Appendix II:
Diocletian's Death
Appendix I: Anaphora
Chronology 1st eudokian 2nd eudokian 3rd eudokian
1st epainon 2nd epainon 3rd epainon
Time Balance Summary epainon Bal
Bible Time Distances Year 1077s BC/AD Balance Quirinius Herod Temp Trio Bal
Preface to
Ephesians 1:3-14,
Paul's Meter of Church Time
Go to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline
Pregnant
Verse Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
To comprehend
Ephesians, you must know Paul's meter from the Greek; but to know his meter, you first need to know
its underlying Doctrine of Time. Bible Hebrew meter, which Paul
uses here in Greek, conveys a doctrine about How God Orchestrates Time. It runs pan-Bible, so has been used for 1500
years. Undetected, by Christendom.
All
prophecy is an accounting, primarily. All the prophetical events are accounted,
to 'obey' this Doctrine's Rules. So,
the Time Rules are encoded metrically, since Israel had to memorize Scripture
orally. This made the Rules,
easy to remember. Hence this meter is
extensively used in the Old Testament, yet scholars don't know about it. They've debated whether OT Bible Hebrew even has
meter, for over 300 years. They can't
discern that meter, since they impose Western ideas of poetry meter, on
the Bible text.
Most of the
scholars involved in the debate over Hebrew meter, are preterists and
Replacement Theologians. So it's not to their advantage, to 'find' a
meter which disproves preterism, which disproves Replacement Theology, since
both 'doctrines' cut out the Jews from God's Promises; just like Harold Camping
did recently, his Mad-Magazine numbers loudly and laughably predicting the
world's end on May 21-now-October 21, 2011. The world, justifiably snickers. Bible is a casualty. Bible looks Bad. Not fair.
For God's Prophecy concerns the JEWs, and we Church weren't supposed to be here, Romans 11. We got 'grafted in', only because Israel rejected Christ and He contracted to BUILD CHURCH, starting in Matthew 16:18, specifically asking for it per Father's Discretion (hence Rapture is pre-Trib and cannot be predicted), in John 17:17-26.
Little wonder then, that 'scholars' debate what even constitutes a syllable, in Hebrew. Yet every Jew has always known: consonant to consonant, one syllable. The next consonant begins the next syllable, and sometimes also ends the prior syllable; certain consonant combinations unite into one syllable. So you only concern yourself with vowel elision, a stringing-together of sound which occurs in every language; and in Hebrew, also the waw might be elided (nowadays called vav). No need to play games with the text, no artificial-sounding recitation as in today's Judaism (harsh Sephardic tones), just read the text. Which in writing, is easy to parse. No confusion.
Once Christendom appreciates God's rhetorical device of metering Time to match verse content, every denomination will want to retool its ideas of hermeneutics, textual criticism, and above all, eschatology. So obviously, much up-front explanation is required; for much debate will justifiably ensue.
No one likes hearing
he's been remiss in his Bible understanding, i.e., the fact that everyone
accounts years as lunar, but BIBLE NEVER DOES.
So Christendom as well as Judaism, constantly get Bible's dates wrong;
Bible doesn't seem to balance, and oh you must just take it on faith, as
if we're doing God a favor. Bible
only uses solar years, but we use lunar, then claim Bible wrong, obtuse, or
(yikes!) "inscrutable"! Camping played games on Bible math. He's not alone. Scholars routinely ignore the EXTRA SEVEN
YEARS in Daniel 9, claiming they are lunar years. NO!
On the other hand, we
all like hearing our faith in Bible, vindicated. That's another certain conclusion, in what
follows. God is Trustworthy. He did preserve His Word. You can rely on it, and once you see how
God proves He orchestrated HISTORY YOU CAN TEST, you'll feel MUCH better
about Bible's Divinity.
By the way, you
needn't credit 'brainout' for this material;
nor did I use anything copyrighted, to derive it. I think the point of 'my' getting it, was to
prove a) even a brainout can know this, and b) to save scholars and
pastors, vetting time. For I know
this material, only because I asked God for Bible proof of a doctrine my
pastor long taught: that God uses Believers To Buy Time. [Christendom
generally calls this 'salt of the earth'.] He called it 'Blessing by Association',
but he didn't know there were explicit AMOUNTS of Time. I learned that, when sleuthing to see what he
meant by 'Buying Time.'
So if YOU also come to see its Biblical validity, YOU
own it. For it's BIBLE's data, not
'brainout's'. Different 'B'. I know this is
controversial material, and yet it's mostly correct. So each day I throw stones at it; I hope you
will, too. Obviously to the extent
correct, it's of GOD, not 'brainout'.
And that's the ONLY 'B', which matters.
So I hope you'll tell me, where you find my errors.
Preface, How God Constructs Time Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
Go to: End
Notes
Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes
a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
So Bible does indeed use meter, to Account for Time. Because, Israel was on a SCHEDULE God set up at Adam's Fall. For the rhetorical-style uses of meter, click here for the Meter Notes' section, read bullets prior to Note A.
This document will show how Paul employs meter;
especially, how he 'tags' specific passages metrically in Psalm 90,
Isaiah 53, and Daniel 9. Thus you gain precise certitude on how
to read and interpret, Ephesians. And
you know something else: everyone used to be familiar with these Rules, just as
we know our abcs.
So what is this Doctrine of How God Orchestrates Time? Briefly, it goes like this:
[Extensive
documentation of what follows is in the Video
and Webpage
links pages of this
Preface.]
o Time is a LOAN.
So it must be 'paid' by someone voting for God. Else, TIME ENDS.
o This LOAN is in specific units, each with its own
voting 'audience' and purpose.
o
First Unit, a 490, during which at least ONE BELIEVER must spiritually
SUPERMATURE. Else, Time Ends. Per
Bible, Adam was the first to supermature, as indicated by the 'present' of his
son Seth (Appointed-to-Carry-the-Name). Genesis 5 is a roster of those who Voted
and Supermatured. That's its primary
purpose, to Track Time Grants Being Met. The sons' births are TIMED; and when you crunch the math, you learn that,
for example, there were 490 years between Seth's birth and Enoch's, showing
that Jared also supermatured at the last minute. (Nerd Note:
Age rounding means that there might be a 1-2 year variance in the math.) Same 490, between the births of Shem and
Isaac.
o Second Unit is a 70, following the 490 if it successfully completed (someone supermatured during that Unit). During this 70, BELIEVERS EN MASSE must Vote To Learn God. The 'mass', can be as small as one (i.e., Noah, who voted during his own 70). Else, Time Ends for those who didn't vote. (Hence the Flood.)
o
Third Unit, is another 490, following
the 70, if the latter successfully completed. Again, at least One Believer must
spiritually supermature. Else, Time
Ends.
o Unit Four, the Sum: 1050 (490+70+490), constitutes God's Basic 'house' of Time. It 'funds' the ability of unbelievers to Vote To Be Saved. Gospel is always the same in any time period: you BELIEVE in the Future Savior Who Will Pay For Your Sins (aka Messiah, in Hebrew): and thus are saved from Hell and to Heaven.. forever.
o
So notice Unit
Four, the 1050 is also constructed of 50's: there are 21 of them. So, 1000+50 constitutes twenty 50's, plus
one. (Hence
the term 'millennium' in a generic sense.
Really, 1000+50, not 1000. But in
shorthand, 1000.)
o So Unit Five, is a special unbeliever-voting window during the last 50 years of the 1050. Notice how it piggybacks onto the last 50 years of the last 490, thus signifying that unbeliever votes depend on believers, voting. (Nerd Note: this is precedence for the sabbatical years, for Pentecost and Jubilee, covered here passim.)
o
So the 1000 is
a 'civilization' unit, with a '50' at the end; so the
'house' of 1050 contains both believers and unbelievers, each with a
TIME promise and a TIME warning, if they don't vote for God.
o
TIME ENDS for those who don't vote for God.
That's the basic point, so is precedence for the sudden-death
nature of the Rapture; which Paul will stress, in this passage.
o
For the
Millennium was predicted to arrive in the year 4200 from Adam's Fall, ever since the Exodus (and maybe prior, I can't yet prove what prior knowledge, of a 2nd 2100). The first two
units ran 2100 years, for the Gentiles.
The second 2100 was for the Jews. Jews today even know this, but they account
2000 each, not 2100. And they use a
bad calendar, patterned after the Seder Olam Rabbah. Google on that term.
o
Messiah was
SCHEDULED to die 57 years before the end of the second 2100; hence when
the Jews rejected Him, there was no more time left. There was no more time
left, because Abraham matured EARLY, so that 57 was 'owed' the Gentiles. (Again, this
was encoded into the Mosaic Law as Passover+Pentecost, Jubilee+Trib, mirrors.)
Preface, How God Constructs Time, continued Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
o
Technically, Abraham supermatured in the very year that Noah's
490-year Time Grant, ran out. That was
year 2046 from Adam. Rounded, the number
is 54 (2100-2046). [Really, it's 53.5 years. An extra 3.5-year piece is tacked on,
probably precedented from Noah, who entered the Ark 57 days after his
birthday. I'm not yet sure why that is
precedent.]
o
So there is no
more time left to Israel, if she doesn't accept Messiah when He comes On Time. [This might
explain the origin of preterism. If one
only looks at the fact Israel ran out of time, one can falsely conclude that
the remainder 'passed on' to Church. But
Bible's promises to Abraham, Moses, David are UNCONDITIONAL, so are still
future. The Last David, inherited them
all, Isaiah 53:12. So there is a future for Israel, which Church TIES to, and
fronts; ergo, the unpredictable pre-Trib
Rapture.]
o
All this was
recorded in the meter of Psalm 90; Isaiah 53 picked up the meter
timeline where Moses left off;
Isaiah updated the Advent timeline, since David had been born and died; now everyone knew when Messiah had to be born:
o
1000 years
after David's consolidated Kingship,
which was (per Bible), 1004 bc.
o
So then Messiah
was SCHEDULED to have the same lifetime as David's total rulership, 40
years.
o
So then He
would have died in 37AD, had the Jews accepted Him. That was, year 4143 from Adam's Fall. Rule of 57 would be met.
o
So when the
First Temple went down, that
Schedule was now in breach. Daniel
knew the meter, and thus metered his own prayer in Daniel 9,
timing the date he prayed it, to the beginning of the last missed sabbatical
year, again shown in his meter.
o
Daniel's
metered prayer asked for the specific units of Time God grants (God replying also
in meter, as well as explicit text), in
Daniel 9:24-26. [The '50' is left out, since it's not Jewish time. So it's in ellipsis, between Daniel 9:26 and
9:27.]
o
So there were TWO
sevens, 14 -- a subunit depicting Time In Breach, Loss of Time due to Temple Down,
which Moses had warned of, metrically;
which Isaiah metrically doubled (two
positives offsetting the negative). As we'll see in the Ephesians passage, Paul
will ape both Moses' and Isaiah's usage, in a type of antiphony showing the Church
will be used as the Time Bridge to fulfill the 14.
o
One seven, was
embedded in the 62nd week; and the other was the Tribulation, in Daniel
9:27.
Both were to play, respectively in and due to Messiah's
'time' (front-and-back like
7-day-pre-Flood warning to Noah, Messiah's death kicking off the final 57); since Israel went overbudget, so to speak, in Temple
Reconstruction delay (21 years instead of
seven, between 537BC and 516BC).
o
So when Christ
came and Israel rejected Him, He ended up dying seven years earlier, still
in the 62nd week of Daniel 9:26. So that 'week', didn't
complete. [We
don't notice that, because we ASSume a lunar accounting. So the preterist thinks that Daniel 9:27 is
the only 7. So too, the
Dispensationalist. Not so!] This hanging extra
7, was yet future at the time Paul wrote, and would be
'spent' on taking down the Temple under Titus, 64-70AD. Everyone expected that, since Daniel 9:26 is
on Temple Down.
o Accordingly, the Christ knew
that; so before He died, He Inaugurated
Church To Continue
Time for no set AMOUNT of Time, Matt16:18. John 17:17-23 shows It's Up To Father,
How Many FUTURE SOULS Christ Should 'Fund', On The Cross.
o
As a result, Time is in a 'bubble' of Daniel 9:26, the '62nd week', a 434, leaving 56 to finish the 490.
o So, Paul's meter sums 434, to display We Church Are The Time Bridge of History. [Personal note: I wish my pastor were alive to see this. All during his ministry he taught that Church was the Time Bridge, especially when exegeting Ephesians for us in daily Bible class, for seven whopping years! He didn't know this meter, or I'm sure he'd have taught it. He taught it for free. So I'm publishing this material for free. Anonymously, so anyone can claim it as their own.]
Preface, Video Playlists Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
As a result, I've made many videos on God's Time Rules and on the
passages Paul uses, to show their meter.
These videos are designed to acquaint the viewer with the Rules you'll
see Paul use in the next section, and to demonstrate how their meter is
designed to show how God met those Rules -- or, conversely, violated by
man. The video series thus far are
unfinished, and are categorized into five playlists:
Psalm 90: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FF2856603C945631 Shows
how Psalm 90 is structured as the Meter of Time, Adam through Millennium.
Isaiah 53 Meter
Hypothesis: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8523934356BE4BDC Journal-type videos on how I learned that no words
were missing in Isaiah 53's Hebrew, and what meter structure I found. This was how I learned the meter you're about
to see in this document.
10 GGS (Greek Geek Stuff): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL5D3F5A2E85CE65CC
Introduction to Eph1 use of Hebrew meter
but Greek words; this document's
contents will eventually be shown in videos, here. This playlist dovetails with Psalm 90
playlist Episode 18 and following. It includes
other NT metered passages, like the Magnificat: click here,
for only
the Magnificat.
10 YMH (Yapping Most High): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLB73D9DA02D729857 Jewish dispensationalism compared with God's 1050-year
'house' of Time, primer videos. Since at
least Rambam (Maimonides), Jewish Dispensationalism claims God Orchestrates
Time to run in 2000-year units. That's
close to the Biblical description. (Really
2100 years for the goyim; 2100 years for the Jews; and then Messiah was
supposed to Come, which He did.) Since their calendar is off, Jews expect
Messiah to arrive in their Year 6000, but their calendar is 346 years short
of history, and many Jews know that. (Year
2011 they call Year 5771, but it's really the 6117th year from Adam's
Fall. Sometime during the Hasmonean
period, or at least by Josephus' day, someone took the Seder Olam Rabbah
and made it into a historical calendar, even though everyone knew the makers of
the SOB had cut OUT years, like those under the Persian kings. For the SOB was designed to keep track of
PROMISE TIME, which they didn't reckon as consecutive time. You can research this cutting-out, on the
internet.)
Genesis Exegesis: Genesis
5 begats introduce God's Orchestration-of-Time doctrine. Start in Episode 8c1, where I cover how to
use the GeneYrs.xls timeline (see next
page): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AB5BE9F40D2918FB
.
How God
Constructs Time: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=32D5DBC20BF4163F
General
orientational videos on the doctrine, samples from the above playlists. Of these, the "Pass the Salt" video
pair are the most important. The
'Companion' Pass the Salt has additional videos in its description, tracing the
voting periods from Adam, forward.
Before the videos, I wrote
webpages and documents on God's Rules for Time.
I learned the rules first, back in May 2004, from Daniel 9's text; only
by accident (yeah, right), when sleuthing whether Isaiah 53 had missing words,
did I find the meter pattern (2008). So
beginning with Isaiah 53 (2008), then Psalm 90 (2009), then Daniel 9 (2010) and
here Ephesians 1 (Christmas 2010), the current and future videos focus on these
Bible passages and meter uses, so you can see how the Bible conveys this
doctrine. Once you see the meter
pattern, you should find it in any prophetic OT passage you choose. Other NT passages also use the same meter,
like Philippians 3:14 (a Rapture passage),
Hebrews 11:1 (a
whole chapter on
Accounting-for-the-Rapture). So look for the meter pattern in the NT, as
well.
Again, folks in
Paul's day and prior, learned these Time Rules as we learn our ABC's. This was basic theology, to them. Daniel, for example, was a teenager when
taken hostage to Babylon. Daniel 9 is in
meter, accounting the TIME of Israel's kings, playing off specific sections of
Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53 via their syllable counts. God's reply to Daniel is also metered; the
explicit numbers in Daniel 9:24-26, mirror Daniel's meter. Thus you know why Daniel didn't ask
questions, though every other converse with Gabriel, ended with Daniel
being surprised.
So the documents that
follow, largely predate the videos. I
apologize for the bits-and-pieces nature of the analysis, but I publish it as I
learn it. It's not fair to delay or keep
this information quiet.
Preface, Webpages and Documents Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
Go
to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
o
http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewMeterCharacs.doc is the latest update on the Meter Rules. All further refinements of the Meter Rules
will be codified there. So far,
it's a short (16-page), updated
diagnostic of 30 identifiable characteristics in Bible Hebrew and Greek meter,
plus troubleshooting tips. You can use
it to test any passage in Bible for meter.
Included in the doc, are hints on how to find such passages; plus (passim),
a tentative shortlist of them.
o
Main webpage on How
God Orchestrates Time: http://www.brainout.net/Mirroring.htm. Has all
videos, too.
o
Next, brainoutFAQ:
http://www.brainout.net/brainoutFAQ.htm#6. Read it
through 6b. Shorter display of the
Biblicity of Bible dates used in Mirroring.htm and GeneYrs.xls.
o
Timeline From
Adam forward: http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls. Shows how
God's Rules for Time affect history both in Bible and post-Bible. All worksheet dates are taken from Bible; no
astrology, astronomy, or extra-Biblical 'sources'. Just count the
dates as Bible gives them, and be sure to count in SOLAR YEARS. Lunar accounting is a Jewish convention; but Bible's calendar is always based on
BIRTHDAYS, from Adam forward; so is always solar; God bid Israel use a solar year, Exodus
12. So the worksheet Col G (in yellow)
dates tally to Bible. (Our BC/AD dates are sometimes 3 years off, which
timeline also reflects. You can't fix
it, by moving the timeline up three years.
There are two self-cancelling errors in our calendars; that's why
SOME of our BC/AD dates are right; some chronologers only make one or the
other, error. Bible's timeline is
self-auditing, so I'll eventually find where those errors are located.)
o Backup Timeline Explanation for GeneYrs.xls and Mirroring.htm: http://www.brainout.net/TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc. That Word document briefly explains the scholar errors, i.e., human king's decree in Daniel 9:25; lunar years; ignoring 1Kings 6:1 on David's death age (77), and instead preferring Josephus, etc. It also goes into the accounting relationship between 70 and 50 (on page 15 of TenWays), vital to how Paul crafts and 'nests' his own meter.
o Another backup, showing we can know from BIBLE, exactly when the Lord was born and died, and that between His Arrest and Crucifixion, there were FOUR DAYS, not one: http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm . Bible documentation there is extensive, and will take you months to vet; for God designed Israel's calendar around the Christ, just as Hebrews 1:2 says, in Greek (mistranslated). There's really no excuse for our centuries of confusion.
o Exodus backup, how the BIBLE's date (1440 bc) obviously dovetails with history we know: http://www.brainout.net/Exodate.htm .
o Another backup, showing the Noahic Flood timeline; Bible writers use the LXX, not the BHS dates. Paul here relies on you knowing the LXX chronology, and tags his meter to it. So here's that chronology: http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc . The pdf copy: http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.pdf
o
Harold Camping misused Bible to craft his
Doomsday dates; so, he used the wrong Flood dates, even. If you're interested,
I refuted his calculations here: http://www.brainout.net/CampingTimelineGaffes1.doc
and
http://www.brainout.net/CampingTimelineGaffes2.doc
. I couldn't have done it so well
if I didn't know the meter. What
attracted people to Camping was his alleged precision with Bible
timelines. Well, the REAL Bible's
precision makes his fake timeline look like the LXX begats' bungling, in Genesis 5!
o God's Play of History Hebrew Meter style and integration among Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, Daniel 9:4-26 and Eph 1:3-14: http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc ; next, http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.pdf is the pdf conversion.
o
Psalm 90
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90ParsedTrilingual.pdf (with LXX and NASB translation as well as Bibleworks' 5 BHS text)
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90ParsedTrilingual.rtf
o http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Parsed.pdf (meter map of Psalm 90 with explanation and notes, parsing and metered translation)
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90inHebrew.doc (original doc used to create the Ps90Parsed.pdf)
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90Palindromes.pdf (map showing the palindromic nature of Moses' meter)
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90Palindromes.tif (original scan from which pdf was made)
o http://www.brainout.net/Judges.pdf (map of how Judges tracks to Psalm 90's meter)
Preface, Webpages and Documents, continued Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
o
Isaiah 53
o http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Hypo4Dotted3.pdf (meter parsing map)
o http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Map.jpg (meter map showing patterns and balancing)
o http://www.brainout.net/Isa53MeterTransInEnglishWide.doc (metered-to-Hebrew, English translation)
o http://www.brainout.net/Isa53.RTF (original sleuthing on whether Isaiah 53 had missing words; has outdated parsing +LXX)
o
Daniel 9
o http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.pdf (meter map of Daniel 9 with notes, no translation provided)
o http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF (same, used to create the pdf)
o http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf (shocking meter in Daniel 9:24-27, no translation; God stresses the 14!)
o See also Footnote E of http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc . It extensively documents Daniel's use of meter to track Israel's history and craft the 490 he REQUESTS from God, syllable by syllable, with cross-references to the specific Kings and Chronicles passages, Daniel has in mind when he talks. Will change how you read, Daniel 9. Very shocking and witty. A copy of Footnote E now resides also in the DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerParsed documents.
o Ephesians
1
o http://www.brainout.net/Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf (comprehensive proof of Paul's meter mapping to Ps90, Isa53, Daniel 9, plus metered translation)
o http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc (this document, used to create the REPARSED.pdf)
Mary's Magnificat
o In 2012, while making the Synoptic videos to prove Mark's Gospel is third, not first: I was nonplussed to find out the Magnificat was metered. Her meter and time tracks, are easily as sophisticated, as Daniel's. Click here for videos on her meter. Word doc there used: http://www.brainout.net/MagnificatMeterDraft2.doc . As usual, the NT text is pasted from BibleWorks NA27 aka UBS4, unaltered.
o Last video in that playlist shows Zecharias' Luke 1 meter; wow, HE plays on Mary's. Bear in mind he spoke 3 months after she did; Luke's just quoting. So this tells you how commonly they used meter; like we might compose a lyric or rhyme, on the fly! Mary's just talking off the top of her head on ARRIVAL, for crying out loud; Zecharias, is talking for the first time in nine months! Paul Uses Their Meters To Craft the Ephesians 1 Ninety-One's: four quarters in the Year, Boat of Church.
Other material (all outdated)
o Summary of Bible Hebrew Accounting Meter Usage: http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewAccountingMeter.doc ,
o
which is a Word doc copy of blog entry: http://godsrhetoricalstyles.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-entry-is-long-time-in-coming.html
o
http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewMeter.htm
. Initial doc on the Meter Rules. Has been updated in the Psalm 90 playlist
video description, Episode 23b, and especially in the blog entry listed at the
beginning of this subsection.
o
http://www.brainout.net/Isa53trans.htm
. Analysis
of Isaiah 53's import with combined BHS+LXX texts . Material is somewhat outdated. My original purpose was to see if any Hebrew
words were missing, i.e., as shown in Moeller's copy of the Isaiah scroll. What a surprise, to find the text
perfectly metered, instead!
Ephesians
1:3-14 (with
Meter-Matching Translation)
Color
Legend:
Red= elision or single-syllable sound; blue (cumulative) and orange (per sevened
paragraph) = syllable count;
teal
= verse #. Each shaded area is a distinct
grammatical unit, divides by 7. Same criteria
as in Isaiah 53, Psalm 90's Hebrew.
End Notes are super- or subscripted in pink. Read
bracketed text (but not parentheses) as part of the meter in translation.
Wavy line is eudokian
anaphoric bookend. Dashed line is epainon anaphoric bookend. Thick line
is Temple anaphoric
bookend.
Navigation: click on
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3 Euvloghto.j o` qeo.j kai. path.r10 Worthy of Glory
[is] God the Father a
tou/
kuri,ou h`mw/n VIhsou/ Cristou/ 20
of The
Lord-and-Our-Master, Jesus Christ;
o`
euvlogh,saj h`ma/j 27
the One Who Is Blessing Us b
evn
pa,sh| euvlogi,a|
pneumatikh/| 37 with every spiritual
blessing [class]
evn
toi/j evpourani,oij evn Cristw/| 47 with those living in heaven, via Christ,
4 kaqw.j evxele,xato h`ma/j/| 56
A even as He had elected us; 56
evn auvtw/| pro. katabolh/j ko,smou 66 In Him before the founding
of the world,
ei=nai h`ma/j a`gi,ouj73
kai. avmw,mouj 77 b,d we are [pronounced] to be holy, blemish-free; 21
katenw,pion auvtou/ 84C
Before Him, by His Standard;
7
evn avga,ph| c 5 proori,saj h`ma/j 94 By means of Love, He had foreordained us, b
eivj ui`oqesi,an dia. VIhsou/ Cristou/ 105 d, i into [His] heirship,
sonship through Jesus Christ; 21
eivj auvto,n kata. th.n euvdoki,an 114 Into Him, as per His Own
Delight h
tou/ qelh,matoj auvtou/ 121 h in His Own
Will-and-Purpose,
6 eivj e;painon do,xhj th/j ca,ritoj auvtou/ 133 e resulting in praise to the
Glory of His Grace; 28
h-j evcari,twsen h`ma/j 141 With which [grace], He has
graced us out:
21+ 7 + 21+ 28 +14 = 91
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7 evn w-| e;comen th.n avpolu,trwsin 157 In Whom we keep on having redemption, d
dia. tou/ ai[matoj auvtou/ 165 on account of and through
His Blood:
th.n a;fesin tw/n paraptwma,twn 175 e,l debt cancellation, for our
transgressions; 28
kata. to. plou/toj th/j ca,ritoj auvtou/ 186 per the Standard of the Riches of His
Grace,
8 h-j evperi,sseusen eivj h`ma/j 195 with which [grace] He
superabounds us,
evn pa,sh| sofi,a| kai. fronh,sei 205 by means of all wisdom and reasoned thought;
9 gnwri,saj h`mi/n to. musth,rion 215 making known to us
past-hidden content b, g
tou/ qelh,matoj auvtou/ 222 about His
Will-and-Purpose,
kata. th.n euvdoki,an auvtou/ 231 h according to His Own
Delight 56
h]n proe,qeto evn auvtw/| 238 f,j which [delight]
He (Father) set forth via Him (Christ); 7
28 + 56 + 7 =
91
10 eivj oivkonomi,an tou/ plhrw,matoj tw/n kairw/n 252 g
To Result in the 'Filling-Up of Times'
Dispensation; e
14
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avnakefalaiw,sasqai260 To Sum, gather under one
Head,
ta. pa,nta evn tw/| Cristw/| 267 all [Trial] matters, in
Christ:
ta. evpi. toi/j ouvranoi/j kai. 275 [all matters] in the
heavens, and
ta. evpi. th/j gh/j evn auvtw/| 283 [all matters] on earth,
via Him;
11 evn w-| kai. evklhrw,qhmen 291 i
in
Whom, even we inherit,
proorisqe,ntej kata. pro,qesin 301 A foreordained as per Temple
'Shewbread' Plan;f 49
tou/ ta. pa,nta evnergou/ntoj 308 A Through Whom He works out
all things,b 7
kata. th.n
boulh.n tou/ qelh,matoj auvtou/ 320 h per His Own Standards of Delight,
Will-and-Purpose:
12 eivj to. ei=nai h`ma/j eivj e;painon do,xhj auvtou/ 334
to the end that we be [made into] praise for His Glory,
tou.j prohlpiko,taj evn tw/| Cristw/| 343 J
the
1st 'fruits' of those trusting in Christ;
35
49 + 7 + 35 = 91
13 evn w-| kai. u`mei/j
avkou,santej 352
In
Whom, even you also hearing
to.n
lo,gon th/j avlhqei,aj 360 the [Divine] Word of
[Divine] Truth,
to. euvagge,lion th/j swthri,aj u`mw/n 372 the Official Announcement
of your Salvation;
evn
w-| kai. pisteu,santej 379 in Whom, even believing,
evsfragi,sqhte
tw/| pneu,mati388 you were sealed by the [Holy] Spirit
th/j
evpaggeli,aj tw/| a`gi,w| 398 with Heritage Pledge by
that Holy One; K
14 o[ evstin avrrabw.n 404 This One (Spirit) is Downpayment N
th/j
klhronomi,aj h`mw/n 412 on this inheritance of
ours,
eivj
avpolu,trwsin th/j peripoih,sewj 425 I,L,M
into Redemption [price] of [us as] The
Possession: d
eivj e;painon th/j do,xhj auvtou/ 434 G,A,J
resulting in,
praise for His Glory. 91
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OUTLINE
Verses 6, 12, 14 are
anaphoric, dual-entendre: How God Glorifies Christ and thus is Glorified,
using Church.
Verses 3-6, Father Glorified and Glorifies His Son, 21
sevens, Temple Building D,
J
o
verse 3 through
1st clause in verse 4, dramatic opening flourish Prologue (like John begins his Gospel and 1John) -- a 56-syllable
doxology and dateline. See Verse 4 note and End Note a on '56'.
o
1st '91', ten
clauses: second clause in verse 4 through verse 6, Election
Purpose to be sons of the Son.
As a result, Father is Glorified. [Fulfills Isaiah 53:12 due to
contract in Isaiah 53:10, Matt16:18 and prayer in John 17. Juridical basis: Election of Christ, so we
are elected IN Christ, Isa52:13, 53:10, 12. j, l]
Verses 7-12, Son Glorified via Church, 28 sevens, Temple
Voting E, J
o
2nd '91', ten
clauses: verses 7-9, Spiritual
Assets Election for spiritual growth for building
and operation of Church Temple aka Body of Christ.
o
Verse 10, Trial
Purpose to wrap up all history, Time Bridge back to
Israel and Millennium.
o
3rd '91': verses 10b-12, FirstFruits Presentation
Purpose of History. As a result, Christ
is Glorified.
Verses 13-14, Spirit Glorified and Glorifies Son by Making Church, 13 sevens (number play on 12 tribes with Joseph's double-portion)
Temple Construction and
Function, Royal Family of Christ
o
4th '91', ten
clauses: verses 13-14,
inclusive. Not divisible by seven until
the end. j
o
Verse 13, Sealing
Ministry
o Verse 14, He functions as the Downpayment on our Inheritance, Agent of Spiritual Growth. As a result, Spirit is Glorified. [Due to the Election of Christ, it's justifiable that God Himself make us, since we are the Asset of Christ. Idea that we are His Inheritance, so it's not a compromise to Righteousness to intimately relate to us.]
The
ten-clause structure of each '91' paragraph is vital: each clause 'talks back to' its counterpart in the
next '91'. Like John in
1John, Paul uses a tic-tac-toe outline
form of rhetoric. Thus
you know exactly what Paul means.
Greek and Bible rhetoric frequently stress importance
by repeating small differences
versus the prior text. This
style is used to advance the meaning of an idea. You'll see the Lord and the writers do it
with OT quotations, which is known as 'interpretative quoting'. Modern example: 'Give me Christ or give me death'. Obviously I changed the famous Patrick Henry
quote by one word, substituting 'Christ' for the original 'liberty'.
Paul takes what he'd just said and slightly changes it
to show the relationship between
the prior text and the changed text, so you know exactly what
he means. Since the text is ropingly
repetitive, we Christians miss this rhetorical technique (and especially its
import), which is rampant in Bible (i.e., that's why we have four Gospels, not
just one). The purpose of
repeating and then slightly changing previously known text is to show how the
CHANGE RELATES to that previous text.
It's especially important in legal contracts, and that's what we have
here: Paul outlines the Legal
Inheritance Provision OF Christ, and therefore IN Christ.
[See: I just did a tic-tac-toe, changing OF to IN, and
you thus learned the RELATIONSHIP due to that little prepositional change. That's exactly how the NT writers do it, so
to see that, track the preposition changes right here in Eph 1:3-14. Then do that with any Bible passage. Can't tell you how often my pastor admonished
us to 'track the prepositions' and 'track the definite articles', in order to
know the writer's 'flow' of discourse;
else, you don't really know what he's saying. So, that's what I'm doing here!]
To see this tic tac toe, print out the three Greek pages and lay them on a
table or floor; side by side, such that each '91' paragraph is horizontally
beside the next, in verse order.
Now, start with the
first clause in the first '91', verse 4's "In
Him before the founding of the world".
Next,
read the first clause in the second '91', verse 7's "In Whom we keep on having
Redemption".
Next,
read the first clause in the third '91', verse 10's "To Sum, gather under One Head".
Finally,
read the first clause in the fourth '91', verse 13's "In Whom, even you also hearing".
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Do
the same for each second clause, then each third clause, etc. Then do it vertically, matching the similar
words to the next such similar clause in the next '91'.
In short, all these
clauses link horizontally and vertically, just as building blocks. Showing the INTERTWINED function of
Trinity. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. Tic-Tac-Toe with ALL X's (Christos!),
Full Circle, Ultimate Palindrome.
Awesome stuff!
Two Extra Observations: First,
I get the strong impression Paul not only invokes Daniel 9's prayer to Restore
the Temple as rhetorical basis for Paul's meter, stressing the 62 'weeks' of
Dan 9:1-13's and v.16's meter, and God's explicit use of 62 in reply, Dan 9:25;
but Paul also invokes Isaiah 63, especially the 'year of redemption' clause
in Isa63:4. That chapter is
structured as verses 1-9 Son, 10-14 Spirit, 15-19, Father. Isaiah himself benchmarks keywords in Isaiah
53 and Psalm 90. Daniel also invokes Isaiah 63:15-19, in Daniel
9:15-19. What a shock. So maybe Isaiah 63 is metered, too? Paul definitely invokes it as the legal basis
for his structure here, for look at how Isaiah 63:7-10 act as a biography for
the origin of Church. See also Romans
11.
Second, that
Paul demonstrates by this meter structure, how Church Has Its Own Better
Deal due to Christ's Success at the Cross, ergo his running sotto-voce warning, don't be
jealous of the Jews. By using the same Hebrew Meter as in the OT, Paul
stresses Juridical Continuity,
so we are not to interpret what he says as replacement of
Israel. It's not Juridical Continuity,
if the covenant prior, is broken. And
Paul's showing that in fact the OT covenant is NOT broken, but rather Church is
being used as the Time Bridge To Fulfill The Covenants To Israel,
Eph1:23, Romans 11. [Book
of Hebrews is built around Ephesians; but Paul didn't write it, he'd just died,
Hebrews 13:23. Hebrews stresses
'better', Attic kpeittwn; so we know that God's Promise to Israel is to
be fulfilled via Church Time Bridge: Hebrews 11:39-40 shows that context of Juridical Continuity, from Abel
forward.]
OVERVIEW: Verses 3-14 are all one sentence in the Greek. So you are to read them as a contractual whole, with subsections. Legal language: idea that nothing is defined outside the context. That sets up for both Paul's prayer in verses 15-23, which doesn't close, and for the second chapter's two walls. [It now looks like Paul treats 1:15 through 3:19 as a whole, also; meaning, text between 1:23 and 3:15 is a parenthetical explanation; his actual prayer is bifurcated, so you are to read the prayer as bookended, with 1:15-23 as the left bookend, and 3:15-19 as the right bookend. Writer of Hebrews does the same thing but with Jeremiah 31:31-34, left bookend at Hebrews 8:8-12, and right bookend at Hebrews 10:15-17. That means he's talking back to this 1:15-3:19 passage in Ephesians, too. Have to study that idea further, since I don't recall my pastor (back in 1985-1991) noticing that parallel structure; he noticed and explained the Hebrews bookending style, but treated the two Ephesians prayers as separate, first unfinished, latter as finished. It was a very important hermeneutical point, to him. Only now, do I see why.]
In short, the election of Church is separate
from all other covenants. You are never to read the covenants prior or
future 'into' the context of verses 3-14, because all other such covenants
are outside the sentence. ELECTION OF CHURCH is the
theme of the book. Doesn't mean
there were no other elections, but does mean that no other
elections (and hence blessing contracts) are in view. In Chapter 2, Paul talks about how Church
relates to the other covenants; Church
is its own wall, and the other covenants are the other wall.
Still, here in Ephesians 1 Paul deliberately parallels
OT covenants, to show precedence and carryover. Bride has her own 'deal', but it's based on the
past. All Justice is founded on
precedence. There must be a contractual
reason to abrogate a covenant and start a new one; whatever went wrong in the old contract,
remains a juridical issue in the new one.
Consistency and precedence are the foundation of jurisprudence, especially
God's.
Christians disregard God's jurisprudence (click
here for definition), when reading
Bible. So Ephesians 1 (like Daniel 9) in
translation is churchy, snoozy, gee-whiz-look-how-God-loves-us. So the reader misses what Paul says!
One can see how Catholics and Reformers, mistakenly or with malice, read Israel OUT of God's promises. They ignore the separateness of the legal grammar structure, above. Something old (precedence), something new (covenant), something borrowed (learning from the past covenants in the OT), something blue (God's Fealty in all Covenants, dispensations).
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Bride could have been Israel, but Vashti refused to come. So Church (including any Jews who believe) is The Esther, whose job is also, to protect the Jews. All other covenants for Israel were unilateral and unconditional, sourced in Abraham, Moses, David. So they are yet-to-be-fulfilled. The only conditional covenant was the Brideship. We end up being that Bride. Brideship is a separate contract, sourced in Christ via his pre-Israel kata-Melchizedek Kingship (Battlefield Royalty Award for defeating Satan, Psalm 110, Hebrews 1-2). So it does NOT negate Israel's own covenants that were unconditional, delivered also due to Christ as Seed (Galatians 3), but initially provided and thus precedentally sourced in Abraham, Moses, David. So Ephesians 2 shows TWO walls.
I cover the Two Walls and the changeover at length in http://www.brainout.net/LordvSatan2.htm#CovProps and http://www.brainout.net/LvS4aContinued.htm#Bridal .
It's vital to account the covenants and their terms,
legacies, and above all, named
beneficiaries. If your aunt
named you as a beneficiary but someone else came in and claimed your aunt
replaced you with a third party, the Judge would demand proof, else 'you'
remain the beneficiary per your aunt's will.
Same, for God's Will. there are no other named beneficiaries for the
millennial and eternal ot promises except israel through abraham, moses, DAVID
and christ.
But prejudice like anti-semitism, affords a handy
excuse, for Bible misuse. Even, for
centuries. Anti-semitism is the worst spiritual cancer in the Body of
Christ. Sad thing is, all the major
denominations have it in their doctrines of Replacement Theology, preterism,
'we are the lost tribes', amillennialism, denial-of-Rapture, etc. 90% of Christianity! No wonder Christians are hurting. End Commercial Message...
Paul's meter apes Psalm 90's both in content and structure; he apes Daniel 9's, in purpose; all to show God's Use for Time. Psalm 90 began with a Decree Antiphony, first 84 syllables. Isaiah split that Decree into bookends of 42's: first half, Isa52:13-14; last half, 53:12. (Isaiah 53 starts at 52:13, in Hebrew.) Daniel invokes the 84 in Dan9:14, 17 in 42-syllable bookends like Isaiah, thus claims the Isaiah promise based on Psalm 90's 84, to invoke the 1Kings 9 contract.
So Paul splits Psalm 90's 84, into four 21's. [There are also four 21-syllable 'paragraphs' in Psalm 90, one per epoch: verse 4, Millennial; verse 8, Adamic; verse 9, Noahic; verse 16, Israel in Diaspora. See my Psalm 90 playlist in Youtube; or, view the same videos at the bottom of http://www.brainout.net/Mirroring.htm . They comprehensively review how Moses tracks All Scheduled History in Psalm 90's Hebrew. Also see End Note d, j in this document, on the use of 21.]
Paul thus weaves the Temple-building result of
Daniel's prayer into four 91's = one year (364), starting at verse 5, plus a
'Messiah's Vote Precedence' of 70
(56+14);
hence Paul's own verses 3-14 = 434 syllables,
just as
o Daniel summed his meter tally to 434 by Daniel 9:13, and
o
made Daniel 9:16
= 62 syllables; so
o God made Daniel 9:25 (also metered) a '62' Promise;
o
so Paul's verse
3-14 meters sum with the same 62 = 434, to show we are IN the 'time bubble'
of Daniel 9:26c.
Moses used five 70's to signify The Schedule Of All History (sabbatically, via believer voting periods). So, he subdivided his meter, thus: 84 (70+14), 70, 70, 70, ending with '56' (70-14, warning Israel would be 14 over her Time Budget).
Hence Paul parallels Moses' Psalm 90, updates the '70' to '91'; for the Last Adam, won! [See End Note j on '91'.] So Church has its own Time: whatever it takes, to fulfill the Time Promise God made, in Genesis 3:15.
Paul, like Moses, then brackets the '14' TWICE to show it will be fulfilled future of his own writing. [See End Note g, Verse 10 note, Pregnancy 1, Pregnancy 1b, Pregnancy 2 and Pregnant14, below.] This set-apart, bracketing, bookending, tallies to Psalm 90:16-17 and Isaiah 53:12, respectively. (14 over and then short in Psalm 90, at beginning and end; Isaiah brackets it by DEBITING 28 from the total, 490 - 28 = 462, the number of syllables in Isaiah 53.) So Paul too asserts both Trib and Mill, are yet future.
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Paul thus nests his meter, playing on Chronos, Greek god of time, who ate his kids as soon as they were born. For of course Paul is writing to the Greeks, so he makes analogy to the Real God, using ideas they all know. As you'll see in the Pregnant Expectations section, Paul cleverly nests Hebrew meter with famous Greek epic (10-11 syllable) meter, again to show the culmination of Time, via Church. So each divisible-by-7 paragraph can grammatically stand alone, yet is unfinished. With a grand, recurring enjambment (see End Note c), the line OF the breakpoint (where divisible by 7) introduces content of the next 'paragraph'. That's a feature of classical Greek rhetoric, to begin a new clause based on the content of the one prior. It's also a feature of Bible Hebrew. This is the ultimate palindrome, not only in meter, but in content. You can read Ephesians 1:3-14 either forwards or backwards. Full circle.
In short, Paul's style is dramatic. Those who allege his style is koine will misread what Paul says (i.e., Ephesians 1:7 and 14 are about ASSETS of salvation YOU USE, not sterile gee-whiz-I'm-saved-so-I-don't-have-to-name-sins-to-God). My pastor made a big stink about Paul's Drama Greek style, never mind whether his words were superficially koine. The meter here proves that decisively, for he concurrently uses classical epic (10-11 syllables) and Hebrew meter.
The
meter is also subdivided into three 'Glory' sections, see End Note n and the Outline. Verse 3 begins the
'Father-Glory' subsection, how Father glorifies Christ -- answering His
Prayer in John 17 -- Who is glorified by bringing Church to completion. Subsection runs through the end of verse
6. The first word in Greek is eulogetos,
and Paul plays on that sound: eulogetos, eulogesas, eulogia. That Trinity soundplay is quite elegant in
Greek, but it sounds chirpy and phony in English; so I translated eulogetos as 'Worthy
of Honor' (my pastor's translation),
rather than 'Blessed', since 'Blessed', 'Blessing' and 'Blessing' repetition
won't sound elegant in English, but rather hypocritical. Or worse, that God is blessed because He
blesses us, which is contrary to what Paul says!
First Clause:
This is a doxology, dramatic opening to Father. See End Note a. Paul plays on sound in each clause, as just
noted above. It's also better to say
'Worthy of Glory' given the Trinity epainon anaphora Paul employs in verses 6,
12 and 14, so the reader sees that connection in translation. My pastor's translation was "Worthy of
Praise, Honor and Glorification", so he referenced the anaphora, too.
Second Clause:
Continued. See End Note b.
Third Clause: More soundplay.
Fourth Clause: Greek en pasei
eulogiai pneumatikei is also soundplay,
but its meaning needs much more explanation. You can't translate its meaning,
in English. We snooze and ahh at 'every
spiritual blessing', yet have no clue what that means. So here's your clue: if you
have the Spiritual Blessing, you have all the material ones, too.
Christ said, Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God,
in Matt. 6:33; Luke 12:31. First things
first. For, you have a bizillion
dollars; that won't do you a bit of good, if you don't know how to use it. You must learn how to use what you have,
whether a little or a lot, and that's also why the Lord said, Faithful In
Little, Faithful In Much, Luke 16:10, 19:17. So, first you have a little, you learn how to
use it well, and as a result you get more.
So, first you learn a little about your spiritual assets, then use
what you learned, and then you get more.
Now think this over: since
your assets are spiritual, you have to LEARN them. So, that requires what? TIME. Time to study. Time alone.
Time to think. And you know what
that means: you have to have MONEY, so you can have the TIME, to study. For you need money to live, and working costs
you what? Time. If your life is complicated with people and
obligations, well then you need circumstances that somehow save you Time. Get the picture?
Have you noticed? Every
Bible hero spent a lot of time alone.
You go off by yourself for set times to learn, study, think. And yes, you attend teaching (church is to
attend teaching, not socialize). But
then you have to think over what you heard, not just forget it. Forgetters, James 1:23-25. You 'do' the Word by what? Thinking about it. Can't do what you don't know, and can't know,
if you don't think it over!
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So you must organize your life, to get that Time to Study. And you will, if you Want To Learn. Thus you are indeed seeking the Kingdom of
God, since you are seeking to learn it.
Him.
So God will CREATE the Time, the Money, and whatever means are
needed, so you CAN learn.
So if you don't have those things, either a) you're not seeking, or b)
you think you should do it on your own, so you're not Asking God.
ASK Him.
You'll be very surprised at His Response. More time and money than you can
imagine. But of course, if you want to
spend it on something other than Him, well.. you'll end up losing it. And you will eventually lose it at times,
even when you want to learn Him, to refine your motive in having it.
Training in Having First the Spiritual Assets, and as a result, the
Material. Because
you need the material, logistically speaking, to get the spiritual. Once you have the spiritual, you still
need the material to PRACTICE your spiritual learning assets ON the material. To express your learning. You always have tension between spiritual and material, Romans 8. At times you must stress the material, as
whatever you receive, you own; whatever
you own, owns you.
It's a funny thing about wealth. A lot of money can easily be worse than
poverty. Why? Because wealth TAKES UP TIME. So to get time to study, you must have the right
kind of wealth, in the right amount, lest the wealth actually Eat
the Time you needed for study.
So that right-kind-and-amount question might result in you seeming to have too little money, relative to your expectations about what frees up your time. So ask God how to Find the Time in the position He gives you. Then watch what happens. It will always be glitchy -- remember, the demon boys don't want you to learn Bible -- but God will always furnish you with the answers if you keep using 1John1:9 and asking Him, Hebrews 11:6. He will prosper you more. The right amount, at the right time, in the right way, to Have The Time To Learn Him. And that's true wealth, baby.
To get a sense of the wealth God makes OUT of your study,
skim http://www.brainout.net/LvS4b.htm#1stFacet
. My pastor spent
seven years explaining 'every spiritual blessing' (in his 1985 Ephesians
series); so in that webpage I tried to classify what
he'd taught. Better still, get the
series yourself, at http://www.rbthieme.org
. They never ask for money.
So Paul's Greek en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei, also invokes what
people knew from the Mosaic Law, Leviticus 26 and Deut 28. That's what the Sermon on the Mount, also summarized. God set up Israel to be the Blessed Nation,
so everyone could know HE was God. So
people could Vote with their Feet to Learn This God. That's why He blessed the weather, the crops,
the people with all kinds of genetic talents, looks, you-name-it: which even
today, the Jews are so famous for having, there are hundreds of jealous myths
about them. To advertise that
the God of Israel is the Real God.
Of course, going with
all that advertised prosperity, was a sober warning: TEACH THEM.
KEEP STUDYING ME. Israel failed
to do that. So, look at how she's been
punished for centuries now.
Heartbreaking. So for Church,
it's the same warning, but at a higher level.
And look how we've been suffering, too.
We aren't seeking Him. So, we
hurt. Katrina mostly hit the Bible
belt, you know.
See how much more is meant by en pasei
eulogiai pneumatikei?
It's real, it's literal, it's vast, and it can't be translated except
with snoozy church words everyone knows but no one understands!
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Fifth Clause, Greek epouraniois doesn't mean 'in the
heavens', but 'those living in the heavens'. Preposition 'epi' distinguishes the inhabitants
from the place. Greek ouranios,
which Paul uses in verse 10, means the place.
Big difference. See, a blessing fuzzily defined as 'in
heaven', masks the shocking import of what epouranios means:
Your blessing is NOW,
right down here,
is PUBLIC AMONG those in heaven, en epouraniois.
Angelic Trial, baby:
that's a Big Deal.
Your dead gramma or great-uncle knows what
you've got in Christ. You don't
know. Every elect and fallen angel
knows. But you don't know. And they all wonder -- only at times, they
do other things, y'know -- they wonder if you will ever LEARN what you have.
When my pastor taught this, he'd often bring up
an analogy to a kidnapped Royal heir.
The King and Queen spared no expense looking for him. Finally they found him with the gypsies in a
circus. The kid, of course, had no idea
who he was, he had been kidnapped so young.
A lot rides on whether you do learn, for none of us is an island. This Angelic Trial is the purpose for
Church, too, and that's what Paul introduces here. If I screw up during a day (and I do, many
times) -- that has an impact forever.
Using 1John1:9 can cancel that impact, or at least modify it, depending
on God's Justice Rules. At my stage of
maturation, I expect some discipline remains to train me; I'm not a kid, anymore. I expect some of what happened became a Trial
Issue, so I must redo some practice. (Greek word pragma often in wordplay for
Trial Matter, Paul will elliptically use in verse 10; which the writer of
Hebrews picks up, in Hebrews 11:1.) And there will be gain, as there was a
loss. That's how God does things, Isaiah
54:1.
UPSHOT: it's all PUBLIC.. up there. Think of Royal Family on TV. That's YOU, on Divine TV.
o Paul's
doxology is meant to be instructive:
you are a PUBLIC PERSON.
o What
you are down here, stopped being an issue when you got saved. What you are UP THERE will forever
matter.
o So,
en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei, Every Spiritual Blessing, is PUBLIC.
o So
what do you do with what you have in Christ? That's the Trial Issue.
o
Furthermore, this epouraniois
clause introduces the theme of the Book: Church is Public,
Body of Christ is On Trial, so What Completes Church, Completes History.
o Trial
ends, with Church (verse 10). The
rest, is Epilogue.
Are you freaked out? You should be. If Christ was watched by everyone (and He
was), what do you think is true for us?
We are Body. Why does everyone
obsess over Christianity? Why aren't
they obsessing as much over Buddhism?
More people are Buddhists in the world, than Christian. Why aren't they
obsessing as much over the Hindus? Many
more people on earth are Hindu, than Christian.
Why do the Buddhists obsess over Christianity? Why do the Hindus? Why do the Muslims? And for God's Sake WHY does everyone pick on
the Jews?
You see: we are PUBLIC, because ours is the Real
God. Everyone knows that. Hates it, laughs at it, but knows it, just
the same.
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We are much more public, in heaven. Just as those Bible people whose lives we
often know by heart, our own lives are on public view, being commented
on. So when you decided whether to wear
a pink tie or dress, and had your petty thoughts, it was all broadcast to
heaven. Live, like the 1999 movie Edtv,
starring Matthew McConaughey. When you
learned something you found important about God, that was broadcast, too. When you go to the toilet, make love, eat
dinner.. all public. To the epouranioi,
who decided to peek in on you. Some of
them are elect angels, 1Pet1:12. Some
are fallen, ibid. Some are probably your dead relatives, that's a
logical corollary, for if angels are interested, wouldn't your relatives be,
too? Etc.
Just as those Bible people's lives are public
consumption down here, so our lives are public consumption.. up there. Think about it. Smile, You're on Divine Candid Camera!
[My pastor taught that angels can't read our
thoughts. I have to disagree with that,
partially. Since we are on Trial, a
theme he taught stridently, it's not fair disclosure if our thoughts can't be
read. So I posit that some kind of
Divine Broadcasting System is provided, either on an ad hoc or on a
blanket basis, probably the latter, the idea being that anyone 'up there' can
eavesdrop at will. Why? To demonstrate the Trial issues. Most of our lives, are lived in our
heads. What we say and do, often is
counter to what we think. It would be an
essential Trial 'discovery' (legal term) issue to have our thoughts,
disclosed. So, they are.]
Again, my pastor spent
seven years showing the ties to Eph1:3, pan-Bible. Royal Family. Us.
Public. In Him. What we do, determines history forever. He taught that over and over. 'Not only down
here, where the Justice Consistency Requirement of Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy
28 principles obviously apply.. but forever.
"As goes the believer, so goes the client nation to God", my
pastor often quipped. Yeah, and we are
what? A "holy nation",
1Pet2:9. So in whatever nation we live,
we are to be good citizens and thus a blessing to it, 1Tim2, Romans 13. For in heaven, we are forever citizens -- and
the earthly kingdoms, all belong to CHRIST -- Philippians 3:20 (see also Eph
2:6, 19).
So, we are On Display. Just
as Christ was. And of
course, still is. He's the REASON WHY we
too are On Display, Hebrews 11:1 (in Greek, verse is mistranslated, see my http://www.brainout.net/Heb111.htm).
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Paul continues the Father-Glory subsection. First clause
ends the previous 'paragraph', ropes (piggybacks) as is good classical Greek
style, to introduce the next paragraph.
The next paragraph, beginning at the second clause, is about the content
of the Election which Glorifies Father.
It runs through the end of verse 6.
First clause, double-entendre
syntax: Father elected; but Christ also had to and did, elect Church in
Matt16:18.
Paul uses a 56 dateline for when he writes: End Of Christ's 56th Year. [See End Note a, Meter Tagging Styles, and Pregnancy 1 on '56'.] That's S.O.P., first divisible-by-7 'paragraph' is a dateline. It's also 56 sevens from when Alexander the Great became King of Macedon, who also died at age 33. That would matter, to Paul's Greek audience. A Better Alexander is here, and He DID Conquer the World for all time! [If Paul writes Ephesians during his Acts 21 imprisonment in Jerusalem, 56 would correspond to our dates; that would explain why the rest of the chronology here -- see the Chrono Chart link -- so closely matches our dates. Maybe it was SENT, later. Tychicus was in both places, with Paul.]
So Paul resets Time Accounting to Christ's Birth, to
show Time is rebirthed, too.
[My timeline in http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls,
ties the 490s to Christ's death. Paul
instead benchmarks 490's from His Birth.
So subtract 33 from each of the 490 endings in GeneYrs.xls, see what new
historical patterns, might emerge. God
tracked David's 490s to the endings of his kingship and death, but also
tracked his birth to the 400th anniversary of the Exodus (which you can't see,
until analyzing 1Kings 6:1); so the
490's of Christ would likewise benchmark at death, surely; but what tracks
should benchmark forward from His Birth, I'm not sure yet.
God benchmarks from births, deaths, crownings, other
events; each is an accounting track;
they all converge. So the accounting
basis for each time track must be deciphered, or you'll go in circles,
frustrated. Example: Psalm 90 runs on four accounting tracks: from Flood, from Israel's slaveship, from
Adam, and from the year Moses writes, to the appointment of human kings. All those tracks are embedded in the meter.]
See also Galatians 4:4 in Greek, which plays on Christ's Chanukah birthday. (Bible Proof that Christ was born on Chanukah is covered here: http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm#HisBday , including timesaving videos.) So Paul just can't help but quip Gal 4:4, since Chanukah coincided with the Roman Saturnalia: Greek god 'Chronos' is another name for Saturn, famous for eating his kids as soon as they were born. Hence Saturnalia at end of year, time eaten, time born. Get the pun? Christ comes in Full-Term Pregnancy of Time, and is Eaten to Deliver Time! So Paul wittily uses pleroma in Eph1:10, see End Note e. [Bible debunkers ignore the many problems with Varro's 'auc'. Review Roman Chronology problems for details. Claudius mandated this calendar for Rome. Our bc/ad system is based on it: 753AUC = '1BC'. More on this topic is covered in Appendix I, here.]
Anno Domini Accounting:
Years From The King
(Click here for the Appendix I
bc/ad reconciliation to Paul)
o Paul follows the same dateline convention as Isaiah 53, Daniel 9. Time Theme of those OT passages is first David to Last David. Last David Has Come And Left The Building For Father To Complete, so Paul nee Saul (named after Israel's first king, how apt), writes the conventional date as years-from-the-king, the Last David's Birth. For the brith, changed to Matt16:18's promise when He Successfully Died, Daniel 9:26's 'karat'. Cutting a covenant. Ours.
o Paul writes on or near Christ's 57th birthday, setting up his metrical theme of a 'YEAR' FOR CHURCH (the four 91's). Total syllable count equals Daniel 9:25's 62 weeks ( = Daniel's meter in Dan 9:1-13's 434-syllable total and v.16's 62 syllables), subdivided 364+70. Equals years 1st Temple stood (364) versus its Allotment (490 years, so 126 years remained). Exodus plagues also lasted one year; so too, Noah's time in the boat. (364: day of exit is excluded. New day piggybacked on sundown prior. Paul uses LXX Flood dating, not BHS, see http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc .)
o Analogy: our 'time' is like Noah's in the Ark = Christ, awaiting God to say 'come out', Genesis 8:14-16, 1Thess4:17; aka Rapture, Rev 4:1's 'come up here'. Paul here tags Psalm 90:3's 'shuvu' ("Return!", a command) as well, the 57th syllable in Psalm 90. [2Pet3:6-8, a Rapture passage, also pegs to Eph1:4. Notice that Peter ties to the END of the Flood, not the beginning. Harold Camping misuses it, to artificially craft an anti-Biblical timeline in order to cover up his own past mistakes, page 1 of his (nee) rapture-proof.pdf : http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/proof/proof.pdf . However, Camping's gaffe helps us see what Peter DID mean. Peter concurrently points to Psalm 90:4, Eph1:4's bookending 56 meter, with the selfsame ellipsis in Eph 1:14, tying it to the Flood's LAST 57 in Genesis 8:14-16, which was precedence in the Mosaic law for the last 57 years of history preceding the Millennium.]
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o
Precedence: Christ
had all humanity 'in' Him on the Cross, Romans Chapters 5-6; just as Noah had
all humanity 'in' him in the boat.
Paul also uses the 56 (and its
split-factors, 28) to ape and tag specific passages
of the same syllable counts in
o Psalm 90 (http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90inHebrew.doc),
o Isaiah 53 ( http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Hypo4Dotted3.JPG), and
o Daniel 9 (http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF) --
o
as a Warning
T0 Vote.
o So the tagging, is a form of antiphony. [See Note a, Pregnancy 1 , and Meter Tagging Styles.]
o
Paul thus ends
verse 14 at 434 syllables
= 490-56, as the Entire Church Age is Dan 9:26's 62nd
'week', yet to finish.
Many scholars know that separateness-of-Church
and 'Daniel 9:26 time-bubble' meaning in Ephesians 1 and 3; but they don't know
how it's stressed and intertwined, within the meter.
Many of the debates over Daniel 9's interpretation are
conclusively resolved, once you see the interplay of the meter as a
cross-referencing system the writers use to point to other Bible
passages. Daniel's meter usage in
particular, would resolve the hoary debate over when Daniel wrote; for like
other Bible writers, he DATELINES when he writes, by a specific metric
convention (first sevened paragraph).
We see that convention from Moses forward; it can be checked pan-Bible; so
it can be independently verified.
Daniel also includes certain biographical dates with respect to himself, Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzar that you find in the text; but to also find it in the meter, well.. you get certification of the traditional early date for Daniel (i.e., 607-538BC), given that meter is regularly used to Account Time, in the Bible. Confirmed, by the way PAUL uses the Daniel passage, as we'll see throughout this document.
[http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc,
footnote E covers the Daniel meter usage line by line. You might want to read it alongside the above
bulleted Daniel 9 link.]
So from this meter, you can see how Paul sets up his
Ephesians 3:18 prayer of 'dimensions' for Church 'Temple' (again,
stressing Church has its own covenant), aka Body of Christ. Thus he also sets up Chapter 2. It's not clear in translation how Paul got
from verse 1:3 to 3:15; not clear, how
he got to Chapter 2. Translation is
jerky, out-from-nowhere.
So in translation, you can't follow Paul's elegant flow;
so what he means, you can't elegantly know. You surely can't tell he apes Daniel,
incorporating by reference four key Bible passages via meter tags!
Ultimate Rule of Hermeneutics is to apprehend the
exact thought of the writer. How
many times we've all heard that rule from our pastors and Bible scholars. Well,
if you don't know the writer's flow, you don't know what he's saying, or why
he's saying it! And here we Know The
Flow, from the meter. Because, it was
popular to memorize aurally; so they
would value Paul's evocative syllable accounting.
Meter was the core of
prophetical accounting. For centuries past, God
Required You To Know When Messiah would Come.
See: for eons everyone was required to know What Time
it was. They learned it while being
weaned: 2100 years until the progenitor for Messiah, then (for Israel)
2100 years more until Messiah came 57 years before The End, then The Day of The
Lord. So those distant from each
2100, were disheartened. Those close to
it, were nervous and goofy, like pre-Tribbers, today. when
was told long in advance, like the Flood. Paul demonstrates this accounting, in Acts
13:20ff.
So notice: post-Temple fall, believers were still thinking in terms of The
Date, which had been long known to be 57 years before the 4200th year from
Adam's Fall. So they were upset the
Rapture didn't arrive, and the public effect was very much like what you see
now with the Harold Camping fiasco. Put
yourself in the believers' place: for
2000 years, they were obliged to count
count count, warn the world of that count, too.
Then all of a sudden, poof! No More Counting?! And what they'd told the world for 2000 years,
suddenly doesn't happen at the right time?
Do you realize now, why Acts 1:7 reads as it does? They couldn't adjust to the change. So, they kept on counting. Paul relies on that attitude, to show why no more counting is needed.
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Due to Israel rejecting Christ, a series of potential
Rapture dates existed, keeping with
the original pre-Church schedule and its 50-year Harvest-the-Gentiles goal.
These dates were a constant
source of speculation, as you'll see in the Gospels, Acts and the
epistles. For if it was a good idea to
have the period last 50 years pre-rejection, and the same people were living
'now', then it was reasonable to expect God would 'shoot for' the same goal. So went the 'logic'. For believers didn't appreciate the
changeover, due to Church. Her existence
wasn't simply to make up for Israel's rejection, as Paul here and the later
writer of Hebrews, will explain. A
wholly new Body was an award to Christ
due to His Success at the Cross, not based on Israel's contract, but due to
'kata Melchizedek', the Psalm 110 promise of Battlefield Kingship for defeating
Satan. Souls paid in advance, for
Him.
Old habits die hard.
The writer of Hebrews, like Paul, will use folks' expectations here to
warn them. [Heb 2, 4, 7, 9, 10.]
Expected Rapture
Dates (Paul's Anno Domini of Christ's Age; allow 3-year variance *). They calculated Rapture backwards from an expected
Daniel 9:27 midpoint. The underlined
links below will take you to that accounting.
Paul uses the anaphora meter, to 'balance' to these dates.
o
63 AD: Year 66 Trib
midpoint, the Lord would have been dead as long as alive; Temple was thus
expected to go down.
o
70 AD:
assumes His age 33+40 years at Temple Down in 73 AD. Trib would begin
3.5 years prior. Temple Down's 40
years balance, repaying the Land for Israel's late entry (40 years in wilderness).
o
77 AD: seven
years prior to the 50-year mark under the old schedule, adjusted for Christ
dying seven years early.
o
80 AD: same idea as
70AD, but using 33+50, rather than 33+40. Temple assumed to die in 83 AD.
o
83 AD: the 50-year
mark, adjusted for Christ dying early (end
of year); Temple would die in 87.
o
84 AD: 50-7 had He
died on time (beginning of year, which
means April);
o
91 AD: the 50-year mark had He died on time. (Had He turned 40 the previous Chislev, then died on
Nisan, which 'becomes' 91.)
* Tribulation timing is based on David dying 3.5 years BEFORE
Temple construction began. So Rapture
can only be pre-Trib. So people then counted backwards from a deemed
mid-Trib Temple Down, to derive Rapture date. Speaking of dates, Our BC/AD accounting comes
from the Roman system. So if Rome were
753 years old when Christ was born, 1 Anno Domini begins then. Since Christ is born at the end of the
Roman year, you must add 1 or even 2, due to the overlap. Also, if Paul wrote just
after imprisoned in Jerusalem,
56 fits; Tychicus could bring the letter later,
the postscript ending Ephesians, written then. For more
info, see Roman
Chronology problems.
Paul will address each of these potential dates, in
order to show that yes, Virginia the Rapture can happen at any time; but
Body is being built and it will take as long as it takes. Of course, the
real concern should have been to grow up
to know him, and also (negatively) to Grow Up because you don't know
if others are growing up faster than you, and the balloon will go up when they
DO. Classical military motivation,
not to be caught with your pants down at Evaluation. Bible uses military and economic terms to
describe Evaluation, since that was how Romans rewarded their troops.
Hence the second clause at 66 syllables, begins a series of what-if-the-rapture-happened scenarios. Total paragraph count will be '21' (77-56), pregnant Precedental Time of Temple Building, Jacob's Time Outside the Land, Noah's thrice-sent dove. So the kosmou phrase ends equivalent to our 68-69AD at start, Year of the Four Emperors; when Paul himself will die and so too, Nero. That's when Tribulation was expected to begin, but for a different prophetical reason: Christ would have been dead as long as he had been alive, a 'mirror'. So Paul benchmarks it, as a 'what if'. Notice the wit, playing on the 66th syllable in Psalm 90: Yeah, eleph heleph! We'd have 'shuvu'd' in Him (Who was) before The Foundation, followed by 7 long-predicted years To Complete Building For Eternity! Philippians 3:11's ei pws, written just after Ephesians, reflects that suddenness. [Greek ei pws ="if by whatever means" (death or Rapture), missing in English Bibles, say Paul Attains (works)! Though even BDAG admits katantaw = to arrive at a destination in life, same verb in Eph4:13! The quoted 'shuvu'd' is also from Psalm 90:3, ending at 63 syllables, leaving seven for the Trib.]
Third clause, at 73 syllables -- another what
if the rapture happens scenario -- Paul
tags Daniel 9:5's 73 syllables
(confessing all Israel had sinned). Like Isaiah before him, Daniel used that verse
metrically as a second dateline, tying back to the end of Psalm 90:
years-from the initial rejection
of God as King, in 1050 bc. (=73
sevens = 511, # years prior to Daniel's writing). For in the Millennium, The
Rejected King Returns. So note how
Paul parallels Daniel: if Trib began at
syllable (year) 66, then it would end at 73; so first Church (@66) and then (@73) the Trib
folk would instead be 'holy', rather than the
'sinners' Daniel rightly confessed. The
Millennium would begin. Ties also to
that same moment in Psalm 90:4, 'ayineyka' in Hebrew (73rd syllable): yeah,
in His Sight, at LAST! Of course, in Isaiah 52:15, 'w'asher lo
shamu' ends the 73rd syllable: for He'd be on earth for all TO hear.
But notice: 73 is not divisible by 7. That would have been syllable 70, einai
hemas, meaning we are to be -- what?
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Next if-the-Rapture
in the same third clause, syllable 77. Here Paul shows what's far more relevant to
Rapture: voting, not date-setting. Yeah, as voting,
not historical events, cause the Rapture (Paul's climactic chapter 4)! Kinda nice
to know Christians this century are no better or worse than those of Paul's
day. Watch...
Syllable 77 is divisible by
seven, so this benchmark is stressed (End Note b). It represents the start of
the Christ's 78th year on His 77th birthday
as the 77th Son of Adam, same year as David's age when he
died. Isaiah metered Chapter 53's
first 77 syllables after the first David's age; so Paul apes
that, just as Matthew 1 and Luke 3 did, both books having been out when Paul
wrote; so Paul uses the same meter, to remind his audience. All the more,
as Temple was foreknown to go down, 33-40 years after Crucifixion. All eyes were on that Temple, mouths
drooling, We might go Home by His 78th birthday! See: date-setting is not new.
Here we gotta get
technical about how Paul benchmarks the 77th
syllable in the third clause of verse
4, to show his metrical wit and doctrinal savvy, which of course is for our
instruction.
o
Isaiah metered
Chapter 53 based on an accounting theme of First David to Last
David.
o
So, Isaiah begins
Chapter 53 (52:13 in Hebrew) timed
to David's lifetime,
o
but with this
twist: first 42 syllables, half of Psalm 90's 84, are about the Decree to make the Last David,
Christ;
o but the meter is timed, to the first David's birth in 1040 bc. [So Isaiah 53 should be metrically read as tracking history from 1040 bc forward. The text has a dual role of tracking Israel's future Countdown to Messiah 1 syllable = 1 year. Thus we learn how to better interpret Kings and Chronicles. Moses had done the same annual tracking, so the book of Judges is designed in 'reply', showing how Moses' tracking came true, which I quickly charted in http://www.brainout.net/Judges.pdf.]
o
Those first 42 syllables constitute the Decree to Make The Christ,
and the Decree that He will die for sins at the hands of his own people,
Isa52:13-14.
o
Then as a result,
the goyim will believe in Him, Isaiah 52:15.
o
That's why
Matthew 1 is rhetorically styled to run
at 42's, but
o
Luke 3, uses the 77 syllables
thru Isaiah 52:15, to incorporate the goyim, as the rhetorical base for
his 77th Son.
o The first David was 77 when he died. [Scholars ignore 1 Kings 1:1-2:39, dismiss 1Kings 6:1 as a scribal error; and favor, errant Josephus.]
o
Paul plays on it as Luke did, but even more so as
Isaiah: 77 as an AGE.
o So Paul meter-maps the third clause in his own verse 4, to the cumulative total syllables in Isaiah 52:13-15, the Decree To Create Christ And Have Him Pay. Notice how keenly Isaiah's text ties to Paul's, here: einai hemas hagious kai amwmous, result of Ultimate Sanctification. [So now we know specifically, what Bible passage God has Paul tag. Meter is like a fingerprint, when you have enough of it. Paul tags Isaiah's unique 77 palindrome in Chapter 53, just as Daniel, Matthew and Luke had done. ]
o
Notice next, that
Paul instead started the 91, in the second
clause of verse 4, at 66
syllables -- why? Well, look at the text -- In Him In Him In Him!
o So notice the palindrome: this third clause in verse 4, ends
with 77 syllables;
o
and there are
also 77
syllables between the ending
paragraph in verse 6 @14,
o
and the start of
the boxed 91 paragraph
in the second clause of verse 4.
o
So a 77, inside a 70! So the Savior Who is the Ultimate 490 (77 aka 70 x 7 aka 490) Votes even as those who will be saved by
Him voted, and thus He is born! And
Who Voted First? "Worthy of
Honor, God-Father", verse 3! See: the nested, metered wit is
phenomenal! Not like that dry reading in
church! Oh, but it gets even better,
watch...
o David in Him, as well as He being in David! Us in Him then, so we can be in Him now, since now He is in us!
o For Isaiah set Chapter 53 to run 1078 years = syllables (remember, your new year begins piggybacked on your birthday, so 1078=1077), with the interval between first David's death and Isaiah's ministry (252 years) in ellipsis between Isaiah 52:15 and Isaiah 53:1. The second ellipsis (364 years) is between Isaiah 53:10 and 53:11, a promise to reimburse Temple Time; which promise Daniel claims in his meter (Dan9:1-13's 434-syllable total and v.16's 62 syllables); so God benchmarked Daniel 9:25 (also metered), into an explicit 62. You can't see why He uses 62, in translation.
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Now examine Paul's text at syllable 77: blemishless (lit., blemish-free animals for sacrifice). No more lo shameynu, 77th syllable in Daniel 9 (verse 6). Instead, hitbonanu, 77th syllable in Isaiah (52:15). The 78th syllable evor (evening) of Psalm 90:4
would have begun; 1000 years dawning on
the Day that is night, Zechariah 14:6-7. See how well Paul tags those OT passages?
Original Millennium was scheduled, had Israel accepted Christ, as the 4200th year from
Adam's fall. Moses shows that schedule, by his own syllable 84 ending Psalm 90:4 (End Note C).
So Paul pegs it, next.
Fourth Clause and 4th what
if the rapture happens scenario, 84, katenwpion autou.
Before Him by His Standard (kata). The l'shmua Stands
Before all; so we all 'report' Him, Isaiah 53:1 (84th
syllable). Daniel's 84th syllable in Dan9:6 is Ha! For then we FINALLY LISTEN Al-Avadeka the
naviim reported. Ya just gotta love Paul's meter-tags. What wit!
First Clause of verse 5:
To craft '91', Paul makes 'In
love', an Attic enjambment (End Note c).
Metrically and grammatically, it belongs to verse 5, but translators
rightly end it in verse 4. So it sticks
out as a bridge. So the rest
of the clause, would tally '91' (91st year
begins on 90th birthday). No Christ, no Plan. the
election is christ, not us. due to christ we are elected. By Means of, by Agency of Love: Christ's.
Not, ours. Paul used the moniker
'Love' for Christ back in 1 Cor 13, climactic passage of His Head to be
completed in Writing so it can get into our heads (1Cor1:5's Greek, His Word in our words).
Then again, one could truncate the first clause into
seven syllables, like this: en agape,
proorisas! For if the Rapture had happened at 91, we'd all be in the air with a shout, as Paul told
the Thessalonians. That clause would
make a good shout, and you'd elide the second O, to make 7 syllables. Since we'd be shouting, 'hemas' would be left
out. Thus Paul plays a
specific-syllable tagging game on his OWN text, as he talks.
First Clause of verse 5, actually ends with 94 syllables,
and also is not divisible by seven. 94 is past the '91' final Rapture date under the old schedule. The enjambment 'piggybacked' the 91, since it's a key date relative to Christ, is
divisible by seven and would be evocative, here. So the 91 is embedded in the 94. The 94 doubles as the mid-Trib point, in the
scenario, when the Tribulation evangelists (the 144k of Rev 7), come home to
heaven (shown in Rev 14). They would
be shouting the same thing, at that point.
But they wouldn't be SONS. So
this is a dramatic way to focus on the text -- you are pre-ordained to
SONSHIP, so think about THAT future, not
escape from life. Sound
familiar?
Rapture date expectations end, with 94. Yet Paul keeps using meter this way, to acquaint us with future Church history. For this passage, plays the same role as Psalm 90 for the Jews. See Paul's Chronology Meter, for that story.
Meter Tagging
Styles We've Seen
Eph1:3's first sevened
paragraph ending at 56, is a deft way to 'tag' Isaiah 53:1+2, :5+6,
9+11.
Each of those passages sums 56 syllables. Paul has 'this thing' for
quoting many verses at once by concatenated catchphrase, i.e., in Romans, here
in Ephesians, Galatians. I didn't
know he'd also do it with meter! Look:
Psalm 90:9+10, 13 through 15, 16+17 are also included. Probably overlapping Psalm 90 verses 7
through 9 (which add to 57), as well.
Eph1:4's second clause began a new sevened
paragraph, 21 syllables long, as you saw. Paul severally tags Psalm 90:4, 8, 9,
16; each of those verses is also 21 syllables. Paul tags these to set up what follows (he'll
also individually tag verse Ps90:7 at end of his own verse
6). So Paul's verse 4 here, second
clause through also the second clause of verse 5 (the huiothesian),
is antiphonal to those Psalm verses.
Compare content, see for yourself.
Awesome wit!
So right away we see these Tagging Styles:
o
First
sevened paragraph is a DATELINE. Here, Anno Domini, the
year-from-The-King, in which Paul wrote.
o
By
individual syllable number, above
examples of 66, 73, 77; and finally 84, on Daniel
9:6. Of course, Daniel repeatedly tags
individual syllables in Isaiah, to create his prayer. So we know Paul knew Daniel did that,
for he aped Daniel.
o
By
aggregate (cumulative) syllable
number, example of the 84 and 77, above. Isaiah
tagged Psalm 90:4; so Paul tags Isaiah, as well as Psalm 90. Which means, Paul knew Isaiah tagged Psalm
90.
o
By a
sevened paragraph's sum, just
illustrated above with 56 and 21. More on the
56 and 21, is in Pregnancy
1.
o
For more
information now, see first section in Meter Notes,
and Paul's
Chronology Use of Meter.
Thus we see Paul deploy meter based
on Moses: in Bible, for 1500 years. It
can be tested. It is deliberate. So what a revolution for hermeneutics, if we
all sought metered passages, i.e., those giving us trouble. Even a old brainout or a young kid, can count
syllables; but full research requires a
cast of thousands, not just one. Think of the JOBS! End
Commercial Message.
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First clause: Greek
en agapei syntactically belongs to verse 5, heads the verse. However, it's not
wrong for translators to have put it at the end of verse 4, see End Note c. Paul is piggybacking the import of verse 5 on
Love (aka Christ, aka Love=God).
Greek
preposition en is a keyword, especially pan-NT. Idea of stressing causality and result by
nuanced use of prepositions, articles, etc. Turns these little workhorses into
racing stallions, driving the meaning of every verse. That is, if you can trace them. Hence, one might argue en should always be
translated the same way, since in Bible you track keywords, to see flow. [Ergo many scholars prefer literal-translation
Bibles like KJV or NASB, to make tracking easier.] Unfortunately, English semantic range of
'in', though now heavily influenced by Biblical usage, is too narrow, vs. Greek
en. So in this passage, where the
MEANS function of 'en' is stressed, I translate it with by, by means of, agency of, with hopefully enough repetition for the
reader to track those nuances. For Paul
repeats the same word, to exploit semantic range. That's a mainstay rhetorical style
pan-Bible.
Greek verb proorizw is better and more
literally translated, fore-order.
Plan. That's Paul's point,
too. A Plan is what you WILL and what
you PROVIDE, with no connotation of forcing. 'Order' or 'ordination' connotes approval of
that Plan. There is no implication of
forcing. In fact, quite the opposite: any
plan has contingencies for events that don't conform to the plan. Hence contingencies that violate the plan are
not only assumed to occur, but have backup plans associated with them. That's the idea here. One might prefer 'predetermine' as the
translation. But even that doesn't have
the breadth of 'foreordain' in English, which we all know means a predicted
outcome that is approved and provided for, not something imposed
upon the recipient.
Think of it as insurance. You
buy an insurance policy which (pretend) simultaneously insures that if you die,
your heirs get money; if you are
disabled, you'll be well taken care of for life; if you need a loan, you can automatically get
it; if you need certain expenses paid,
you'll get that money for those expenses.
Pretty neat policy, huh.
Now notice something: the policy just sits there. It doesn't force those things to happen to
you, but provides funds for those contingencies. And,
it's approved in advance, so you know you can trust it, the issuer has already
calculated the costs, Put Them On Deposit.
That's what proorizw
means. All the costs associated with a
given plan, including all contingencies which the Grantor will act on; and most importantly, proorizw means
these contingencies and their costs are Paid In Advance, and On Deposit, for
the contingency of usage. None of that provision,
forces those contingencies to occur.
You have such an insurance policy, aka
Salvation. Christ paid it all in advance, and the payment
itself was a planned thing in eternity past.
The hitch was, would He Freely Succeed, once Here and on the Cross? Else, there would be no funds. But He did, and you have this policy PAID BY
HIM. Not, forcing you to use it. Not, forcing Him to use it. He contracted to do it, however any contract
can be broken. Yet "in Love",
"by agency of Love", He will honor that contract. See the difference?
English 'predestine' connotes a forcing that
is not in the Greek. Sadly,
theology prefers the harsher 'predestine' with all its English undertones of
no-free-will, fate, Hindu karma, etc.
I think 'predestine' shouldn't be used, given the theological shackles
with which it has been bound.
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Second clause: Greek
huiothesia gets scant attention, in
theology. We but mouth it. Paul uses a culturally-loaded word,
here. Rights of Firstborn Son. Inheritance rights. In Roman custom, there was but ONE heir;
everyone else got specific bequests out from the testator's estate. Often, the heir had the right to overturn
those bequests. So all who were
junior, were beholding to the Heir for their inheritance, as well as to the
Testator.
Point:
WE SHARE IN ALL CHRIST IS AND HAS. My
pastor stressed that, when exegeting this verse.
Point:
if we Christians only grasped how VAST is our inheritance, we'd study
Bible deeply.
You
inherited a bizillion dollars, in Christ.
Do you know how to access your vast wealth in Him? Do you realize, Prayer means you can Ask Anything In His Name and He will do it,
Jn. 14:13f; 15:16; 16:23f? So now the
flipside: if you do not ask, then you are responsible for fallow wealth. Stingy servant with the napkin (Luke 19:20), you will be
punished for not using 1 John 1:9 (an asset, Eph 1:7, 14), for not growing
in Grace (2Pet
3:18),
for not learning and living on Bible.
For the Heir DID do those things, Luke 2:40, Matthew 4:4, Deut 8:3!
Just
start thinking of yourself as the richest person in history. For, that's what you are. In Christ. Once
you recognize this and take it seriously, you'll get serious about Bible. For it tells you what you have, and how to
use it; and baby, you're in deep doo-doo if you don't use your wealth. End Commercial Message.
Third
clause: Greek eudokia is often
translated good pleasure. Paul
dramatically parallels it with the two bouletai uses in Isaiah
53:10's LXX, which is usually translated 'delight' or 'please'. 'Delight' is better, so I used it.
Thus begins
the first of three subsevened anaphora, Drama Greek
rhetorical bookends: this one, 'contains' the Wealth Father put into Christ on
our behalf. Wealth is classy. So you need [Bible!] classes, to learn how to
use it. So click here, for the eudokia
anaphora. See also Note h, and the intertwined
chronology, in Appendix 1.
Fourth clause: Greek thelematos isn't merely Will,
but Purpose. Every time you will
something, there's a reason (good or bad, right or wrong) behind your will. For every will is a decision based on
Something You Will. Get that order.
o
You have content.
o
You decide ON that content.
o
At no point is the content, deciding on you.
o
So you are responsible for whatever you decide, and
o
you are never constrained by the content.
o
Much more so, God.
o
His Purpose is first an Act of Will, Decided upon.
o
So you can never divorce purpose from will, nor will
from purpose;
o
but you can always divorce both from Content,
o
since Will determines how Content will be valued.
So
God's Purpose and Decision isn't forced on Him by a) what He knows, or
b) what He is. HE CHOOSES FREELY,
at all times. All that, is inside the meaning
of thelematos. And it should give
you a great deal of comfort:
o
God isn't choosing you because of you (that's
content),
o
nor will He reject because of you (more content),
o
nor did He devise this Plan because of you (more
content),
o
nor does He remain faithful because He must (content
of Attributes).
o It's all 100% God
and 100% Voluntary At All Times. [See: God truly
is Sovereign, Theos Thelematos. Over His Attributes, not 'constrained'
by them. That childish Calvinist notion of
'constrained' needs to go to the dungheap, in the 21st century.]
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First Asset in the eudokian portfolio,
eis epainon.. doxzes autou.
Father Glorifies Christ
by ordaining us BE Christ's Glory..
Here we also meet a second nested
anaphora Paul uses: the epainon. It is nested partly inside the eudokian anaphora.
So the first Asset in the eudokian asset portfolio, is the
greatest. By Divine Decree, We will
be THE Glory of Christ Himself. It's
shocking, until you respect the fact that God shouldn't settle for
lesser-thans. So, He doesn't. So, we won't BE lesser-than Christ. By Divine Decree! Bride should be worthy of Her Husband. God can do anything. So, He does EVERYTHING.
God is
Infinite. So, we must be also: "be ye Perfect", Christ said. You don't spend time on trailer trash, so God
will not. But we are trailer
trash, compared to Him. So, He did
something about it. Salvation is only the beginning.
This first asset tells you the past-hidden plan from the getgo: ye are Gods, John 10:34-36. The Son of God is the CopyBook, and we WILL BE made copies of
Him. By Divine Decree.
Not equally,
for we don't equally choose to use our eudokian portfolio. But, in aggregate, as a fitted hierarchy,
each to his own self-selected pattern, will be THE Glory of Christ. Some of us (very very few, maybe 1000 in all history) will be kings. The rest, will forever be Royal Peasants who
didn't learn to live on Word as Christ did, but learned other things (works, rituals, people). So, they don't have the Thinking Needed To
Rule. So, they will be ruled.
But even the lowest among us
will be light-years superior to all the human achievements and satanic
achievements in history, combined. What's lauded down here is despised even by demons, up
there.
And
rightfully so, for our ideas of spirituality are despicable. God expelled the Jews for far less rebellion,
than ours. Daniel 9's confession of
Israel's history of rejecting God, is doubly true, for us. We have so much more than she had, as you
will soon see. Assets we ignore or
twist, to make ourselves important to ourselves.
Christians down here pride
themselves on their faith. Meaning, of
course, that God doesn't deserve it. You
realize, I hope, that when people pride themselves on what they do, it means
they hate that very activity, and seek pride as a solace. So when people make a big stink about
THEIR faith, denomination, practices -- they advertise that they hate
those very things. They advertise, to
get compensation. Because, they feel
they aren't getting any.. from God.
When you love someone or
something, in your mind nothing you ever do is good enough. So you never crow about it. If you managed to do something well, you are
grateful, not resentful. You don't
expect anyone's approval, for you never have your own. You constantly strive to improve, because you
LOVE what you're trying to achieve so much, all you want to do is.. more of the
same. You'd do it for free, you'd even
prostitute yourself if need be, to do it.
Love is like that.
Hatred, by contrast, always
feels it gives more than it gets. So is
constantly seeking recognition, approval, and magnifies little goods as if they
were monumentally valuable. Because, to
hatred, everything self does is too much for what it gets in return. Not receiving the return it deems appropriate,
it goes to pride, comforting the self on what sacrifices were made for no gain. Even a cup of water in Jesus' name is given
high status. And, that's as high as
Hatred is willing to go.
Such is the history of
Christianity. So for God to want to make us into His Son's Glory is
warranted, for HE deserves it -- but the
very idea is unfathomable, just the same.
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o Meanwhile, we preen over how
humble we are to insist how low we are. How
arrogant! It's a cop-out,
really. An excuse to be a peasant.
o So, these majority-rules
peasants of Irrevocable Eternal Royal
Birthright, gauge their worth by how well the puny world lauds them,
o their degrees or peer recognition,
o hushed tones and 'oh
brother',
o how many they 'converted';
o and they call their
activities all sorts of sickeningly arrogant names, like 'soul winning'. Oh?
YOU win souls for God? Should he
bow and scrape in gratitude to you?
Yecch.
o They pride themselves on how
nice they are to people, but James condemned it. Christ condemned it even more.
o Christians down here pride
themselves on whether they can spout Bible,
o give to charity,
o and they make sure to pat
themselves on the back for every little good deed they do.. while the angels,
vomit to watch. Jesus I know, and
Paul I know, but who the HELL are you! the demon literally said to the
seven self-righteous sons of Sceva, Acts 19:15.
[My
pastor was particularly fond of reciting that verse. Made the prim folk in the congregation,
wince.]
o Christians pride themselves
on their doctrinal fights, with those most heretical, calling everyone else Heretic!
o Christians take to politics,
when Christ warned against that, and Revelation 17 made it clear that Church in
politics is a harlot.
o Christians account
themselves spiritual if they sing rah-rah Jesus songs -- because oh, there are a dozen verses out
of TEN THOUSAND ON LEARNING TO THINK BIBLE -- well, those dozen sing verses
must be the spiritual life!
o So they gauge spirituality
by how they feel,
o and they think they are
spiritual giants if they can recite Psalm 23.
o They pass judgment on those
whose (usually sexual) sins differ, in order to feel superior.
o They argue about Saturday or
Sunday, wearing hats or dancing, is it Yeshua or Jehovah or Yahweh;
o and, like Tom Lehrer sang.. everybody
hates the Jews.
In short, it's a sandbox,
Christianity. All chirpy all mistaking
morality as spirituality (lol even the Muslims are largely moral); and in
short, FLUNK is their report card. Assets Fallow.
But even so, when the
balloon goes up, they will be to however small a diamond-faceted extent -- a
true Glory of Christ. Maybe one-quarter
carat of the Karat Who was Garroted to the Cross, but still genuinely reflecting
Him. Even Him. Father would have it so; and so it shall ever
be.
So
the values you have now, will reverse.
Up there, ONLY CHRIST will be interesting to you. By your free will choice. Okay, but what will you have to give to
Him? To express your love? Nuthin', if you didn't use these assets. Someone else will have them, and you'll be
under that someone else, mighty grateful and happy, but.. with nothing but a
smile. That's why Christ said, get rich
in Doctrine, 'and all these things [material needs] will be added to you. Yeah, forever. Literal material wealth: for the ruled need
it. For, all they ever learned down here
were body ideas, slapping God's name on everything they wanted, to feel holy.
So they never learned the spiritual life.. which is To Think
Royally.
So
this topmost benefit, Made Into the Very GLORY OF CHRIST -- will be your
heart's desire. With no matching physical assets, if you
didn't learn and live on Bible. As usual,
when God makes great promises, there's a horrific flipside: you'll wish you went after Bible with all
your life, once you're dead. But it
will be too late. No punishment, but nothing atop your naked salvation,
either. And you'll be happy. But low.
Bet you don't want that future...
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So
now, to these Assets. The epainon
anaphora being nested within with the eudokian anaphora, tells you
juridical origin. In short, due to the eudokian anaphora, the epainon
anaphora occurs. As shown in verse 5's note, eudokia references the WILL. Moreover, Paul makes sure you know eudokia
relates to the Isaiah 53:10 contract between Father and Son, via the cognate boulen
in Eph1:11, thus tying to bouletai (twice) in Isaiah 53:10's LXX.
Greek epainon
needs clarification. Technically it's the sum of epi+ainos;
on the surface, it means 'good report' about someone. The 'someone' is put in the genitive
case. But 'good report' doesn't convey
the meaning, here. When you
ARE a praise, it means you REFLECT the object, yourself. [See Thayer's lexicon for epainon, which
notes for Ephesians 1:12 that we ARE the praise. That distinction is very important to the
shocking meaning of this anaphora.]
So someone
looking at you, admires the object you
represent; for you resemble
that object. Thus, the person looking at you, is
doing the praising. Not, you doing
it. All you do, is breathe. Example: when people in the OT saw
an angel, they would often mistake the angel for God, and would fall flat on
their faces, etc. The angel
didn't do any praising of God, the angel gave a message. But the very glory of the angel made
the one seeing him, think of God. That's the
meaning of epainon, here. We will so totally reflect Christ's very Glory, we
will seem to BE Him. Way higher
than, angels (theme
of Hebrews 1-2, 1John 3:2).
Unlike the eudokian
anaphora, which is dramatically complex, This epainon anaphora is
spectacularly simple. Here's how it works. If you said
'Give me Christ or give me death', you replaced 'liberty' with Christ; you would make someone smile, if they knew
the original Patrick Henry quote. Paul
makes this same 'substitution', to convey
astonishing Bible truth. The
exchange denotes how the replaced words are fulfilled. Look:
As we saw in the Outline, the epainon anaphora is about how God
the Father Glorifies Christ, how He ordains Church to Glorify Christ, and how
the Holy Spirit Glorifies Christ. As a result,
Father and Spirit are glorified. Really
shocking. What makes it shocking is the
way Paul makes small changes in the Greek words. These changes make deft
points about HOW Christ is glorified.
The structure is a dramatic tic tac toe.
In Greek drama you drop verbs, and instead use nouns and participles,
as Paul now does, here:
Verse 6: eis epainon doxzes tes charitos autou.
Verse 12: eis to einai hemas eis epainon doxzes autou.
Verse 14: eis epainon tes doxzes autou.
The bolded
text tells you a story: how Isaiah 53:12, gets done. Keywords epainon and doxzes are
used in Isaiah 53:1-2. Idea that His
Glory wasn't appreciated while He was here, and the 'good report' of the
prophets and believers, was likewise rejected.
So, verse 6, the Glory of His Grace will be used
verse 12, to create
us
AS His
Glory, which Reflects Him. Hence,
a good
report of
Him.
So, verse 14, we are made by the Holy Spirit into THE
Glory of
Him.
(In English, to get the force
of 'tes' in verse 14, you should put THE all in caps and make it really big.)
Second Clause: Sometimes repeating words in Greek is elegant, so
Paul uses both charitos and charitow, together. So the only English equivalent was 'graced us
out', which in English is less formal, but more vivid. Paul's vivid, here.
Third Clause: "In the Beloved". Greek en = by means of by agency of
with, and Paul means them, too: all
prepositions, Him. He uses
prepositions as bullet points, meter divisions. Genitive's root idea is belonging-to. So Him to us, we to Him.
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Paul meter-maps
Isaiah 53:9, here. He also tags the
other 28's (see Note E and Pregnancy 1b for the verses) in concert. So we know exactly
what he means, in Ephesians 1:7. No
guesswork.
Every one of
those 28-syllable paragraphs in Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53, are on your sin and His
Redeeming You. So what does that redeeming,
mean? Well, per those metered
paragraphs, ya got two kinds of dying.
One, you die angry at God, so God mirrors your own anger back at you, so
you come to know the 'anger' of God; two, you die wise and happy, knowing
you'll see Him in a few minutes. Not
afraid. Not angry. For, you know He redeemed you.
Second Asset of your eudokian portfolio,
REDEMPTION: ten apolutrwsin.
'Redemption' is the substitution of one item for another.
Christ substituted His Own Life for
ours.
Have you ever seen a coupon?
You can either get whatever's pictured on the coupon, or you can
"redeem" it for a certain (usually small) amount of cash. Just look on any coupon's fine print. In America of the 1950's, it was a craze for
grocery and hardware stores to give you 'Green Stamps'. They looked just like postage stamps, and
you'd get 10 or so every time you shopped.
Then you pasted them into books; and when you got enough books full of
the things, you could REDEEM them for items in the S&H catalog. Took like a bizillion stamps to get a
'free' kitchen knife, but it was fun.
Everyone likes getting
something for free. Except that it wasn't really free. It cost the retailers hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and it took a lot of TIME to paste those stamps into books. So you ended up paying for the stamps via
grocery (etc.) prices, for where do THEY get the money to pay for the stamps
they give away, except from sales? And
then you paid double, with the time spent pasting...
Salvation
redemption is just the opposite. You DO
nothing. Christ DID everything, Romans
5:8, Gal 3:18-22. So Salvation
Redemption means you have a LIFETIME COUPON -- and your life never ends -- a
LIFETIME COUPON of money. He paid it,
you have it. Like, a bank account. Now of course if you never find out the
account number, then all that wealth just keeps on being on deposit in the
Universal Bank of Heaven, doing you no good at all.. until you DIE to this
world, and go home to His.
So then, how do you access your wealth in Him, exchanging
(redeeming!) your puny ideas of life, for His? Ahhh.
You realize, right, that the quality of your life depends on the quality
of your thinking? Bad thinking makes
people sick, poor, get into trouble. So
if you had competent thinking, the quality of your life would improve. Better job, better decisions, better
everything. Whether rich or poor. Whether sick or well. Your life is only as good as your thoughts
are. Petty thinking, jealous thinking,
nasty thinking makes for an unhappy life.
Wealth of any kind gets spent mostly on trying to fix problems, and
inevitably one finds out that the intended fixes, were just loose band-aids or
another buggy computer program. Very
upsetting.
Bible alone can cure it all,
and truly make you happy, no matter what your circumstances. That's True Wealth, and why people even seek
wealth. But only Bible can cure the
SOUL. But you first gotta BELIEVE that
you have the wealth. Then you gotta
BELIEVE it's important to find out what it is.
Then you gotta Study Your Divine Assets Manual, so your LIFETIME
COUPON
doesn't DAM up and you say, 'Damn! What
good is this Bible?' But you open up
that Bible, and it's all words words more fuzzy words. So let's first cover Accessing your Divine
Asset Management Account (ADAMA), so Bible won't stay a DAM gathering
earth-dust while it sits on your coffee table -- so people will think you read
it, of course -- because you rightly have trouble giving a damn about its fuzzy words, the many
denominational fights, etc. ad nauseam.
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Redemption
means You CAN name your sins to God.
Just NAME them. You got ticked off in
traffic. "Dad, I sinned!" You got ticked off at Windows. "Dad, I sinned!" You worried about some bill. "Dad I sinned!" You felt guilty. "Dad, I sinned!" It becomes as quick and natural as breathing,
to REALIZE that 1000 times a day you have some thought which God would never
have, so it's a sin. Anything you do
with your body, of itself isn't the sin:
sin is what you THINK. Body just
obeys THOUGHT.
So it's a big deal, to Just
Name It And Move On, not even stopping to feel bad about it, for -- guilt is
a sin, too! Feeling bad doesn't
ATONE for squat. So you just committed
the sin of HALLUCINATING that how you feel, accomplished something. NAME IT,
move on! You got this LIFETIME
COUPON,
see: it never expires. So naming sin
means Dad writes a check to FIX YOU, from what Son paid on your behalf 2000
years ago! Imagine what INTEREST
accrues on His Payment, 1900+ years before your birth!
Our
use of Redemption is far simpler than what the OT people got; they also had to
o go to the hassle and expense
of finding blemishless animals,
o dragging them to the local
Levite priest,
o putting their hands on the
animal,
o Naming The
Sin
o while the priest cut the
animal's throat.
o Then blood,
o more waiting,
o the smell,
o and you took some of it home
o or ate it there in front of
the priest, (often, not always, depended
on what kind of sin it was).
o And you did
all that, because it was DINNER. With
God. Restored to Peace with God, signified by eating the
animal that just died 'for' you, picture of Messiah-to-Come.
If you're at all familiar
with eating in the ancient world, you have to know that meat was hard to come
by. People lived on milk, fish, cheese,
grains, vegetables. Very small amounts,
too. But here you are, every time you
sin, EATING THE BEST MEAT. And you just
know, people sinned 100 times a day or more.
Life was even more annoying for them, than for us. Still, it was a hassle. Took at least an hour, not to mention,
waiting in line behind all the other sinners with their stinking lambs, goats,
doves, and the doo-doo those animals would excrete.
So
contrast this: Redemption for Church means that since Christ is the Lamb of God
and He paid, there are no more animals to bring, and you are your own priest, 1Pet2:5, 9; 2Peter 1:9 (in Greek, translators forgot to
translate labwn, lol); Hebrews 10. Takes a nanosecond to think toward Father and
admit you sinned, even if you forgot what ones and when, you know you did, so
you admit it. I use 1John1:9 a bizillion
times a day.
Of course, many Christians
think it's too hard, hallucinate that they have to keep TRACK of their sins,
and they feel bad about doing that, so they invent excuses. Like the hallucinated idea that here in
Ephesians 1:7, you're forgiven of all your sins so you don't need to tell God you sinned, anymore. Okay, then you're drawing funds from your own account down here, for the Holy
Spirit won't fill a defiled Temple. You.
For your online banking with UBH requires 1John1:9 as the passcode. No tickee, no washee. So you're not clean. So you're not filled with the Spirit. So you're INCOMPETENT at reading Bible. So you are DAMNED up, and you'll be punished
for it, Colossians 3:25.
[Nerd Note: There's a crazy 'school' of 'scholars' who
maintain that Greek aphesin (next clause) is appositional to apolutrwsin,
here. They clearly aren't using
1John1:9, so that's why they are utterly incompetent. For just as in the OT prospectively, for us
retrospectively, Christ's Payment means you CAN name sins, but you still
MUST do it, to be back in fellowship with God. David explained that, in Psalm 32:5 and
66:18, which is reasonably clear in translation. I did a whole playlist of 1John1:9 videos
showing the many categories of OT verses.
So naming sins is based ON Redemption, and is a function OF it. Here in Eph 1:7, you have an Attic double accusative of cause and result,
not koine appositional usage: my pastor stressed that 1000 times. Paul's language is Greek drama, with DROPPED
VERBS. Very obvious. And all the OT confirms that meaning. Moreover, anyone sane can read 1John1:9 and
know that, since JOHN confessed the same thing (we we we
we we we -- hello?), putting The Funding BASIS in 1John1:7.]
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Idea?
Redemption means Forgiveness In Time is FUNDED -- a) so you CAN name your sins, b) so
you can GROW UP spiritually, not merely be saved as a newborn.
OT saved like David, Moses,
etc. all sinned. We have their sins recorded. David even wrote about how if he did NOT name
his sin, God made him SICK, Psalm 32:5, 66:18!
We just don't need the animal ritual anymore, for the Lamb of God,
Paid. Hebrews 6-10 also warns that NOT
admitting sin -- results in destruction (subtheme since Hebrews 2:1).
You neglect your salvation
assets (Heb 2:1), if you don't use 1 John
1:9. John used it, "we" in
1John1. Like, David, Moses -- for which
Moses wasn't allowed to enter the Land, Deut 32. So we don't enter our inheritance, if we
won't name our sins to God. Babies we
are, and babies we stay. Saved but naked,
1Cor3. The adults (atsumim, in
Hebrew Isa53:12) get the inheritance instead, to spend on the babies. The babies, have nothing. Forever.
No one
learns Bible in a state of sin. A state
of sin exists even after the sin is committed, UNTIL YOU NAME IT to God. And if you don't remember, just say I
SINNED, DAD! You needn't be anal, keeping sin lists, agonize here!
Christianity remains in the
theological playpen for 2000 years,
for Christians won't use
1John1:9.
Can't properly read Bible,
without it.
So, they don't. So, they lose their faith. So, they get punished.
So now let's
talk about what it means, to GROW UP, 2Peter 3:18. Well, if you use 1John1:9 regularly, what's
redeemed? Your thinking. Sin isn't your biggest problem, but its aftermath. Sin is an addiction. As with any other addiction, you CAN say
'no'; but your desire increased with
prior repetition. So it's harder to say
no. Sin is inherently a desire to fit in with the world. Individual sins
themselves are all rooted in that urge. fitting-in. Moral sins, or immoral sins, all try
to FIT IN.
Your body thrives on
repetition, familiarity. It can't tell
the difference between repeating something good, or something bad. To it, repetition of any kind is good. Repetition breeds comfort, fluency,
competence and skill. So if you repeated
a bad thing, its attractiveness grows; a
built-in urge to do it again, repeats upon the next instance of associated
past repetition.
Each successive repetition,
makes the next one, easier; more fun; more automatic. And so it is with sin, too. So it is with learning and living on Bible,
too. But you can't learn Bible in a state of sin. So: naming
sins, is important. You can't access this Divine
Redemption Thinking from Bible, except while you're filled with the Spirit; and He won't fill, a
defiled Temple.
That access
is phenomenal: 'Filling', means Filling
you with Divine Perspicacity. My pastor
called it "Spiritual IQ", and he's right. I'm evidence of it. God makes you smarter as a result of
1John1:9. See, this is a real asset you can use. And you need it, because you need Divine
Smarts, to grasp Bible. So, you can
sometimes grasp in minutes, what takes a scholar, a year or more to
research. Why? Because the Holy Spirit Connects the Dots,
John 14:26. Even a great scholar who's
not using 1John1:9, is trying to connect them on his own power. So, usually he runs around in circles,
grappling with 90 other scholars of 90 other opinions; he's always forced to
hedge. By contrast, in seconds the Holy
Spirit can make the right connected verses come to your mind, John 14:26. Saves you time, angst, controversy. Try it. Use
1John1:9 like breathing, for a month.
Daily. Try to make it a habit. Repeat repeat repeat and it will become as
natural to use the verse, as brushing your teeth.
Then you'll appreciate what
Paul means at the end of this verse 7, by 'ploutos'. Seriously.
Try it yourself. Words won't
suffice; you have to see it in your own
life, to know. Use 1John1:9 like
breathing, make it a habit. Watch what
happens.
That is the
heart of redemption: you are REDEEMED
from 'your empty way of life', as Peter put it, 1Pet1:18. See, all the world has in its mind, is the
world. It has no higher
understanding. But you do -- thanks to
Redemption. Whether you access this
higher way of life, however, is up to you.
Greek word mataios in Peter (and elsewhere) means 'futile',
'empty', and signifies the chasing-after-windmills quality of this life. Chasing your tail, really, for whatever you
gain in this life always bites you at the end.
Instead, the
way God thinks, can become the way you think.
Funded on the Cross, paid by Christ:
THAT is True Redemption. Your sin
nature will buck it constantly, theme of Romans 6-8. But you now have an option for a happiness
INDEPENDENT of the world. Independent of
circumstances, people, what you have or lack.
Again, try using 1John1:9 repeatedly and daily for a month.. see what
happens.
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Second Clause, reason why you have
redemption: Christ paid. Not with physical blood, but with His
Thinking, Isaiah 53:11's bedato yatsdiq.
'Blood' was what circulated in the animal. Its throat was cut. That cut off the pain, but the poor thing
bled to death. A soul has no corpuscles.
The 'blood' of a soul, is thought. Sins
are thoughts. So only
THINKING 'blood' can pay for sins. Just as
Isaiah explains: by means of His
Mastery of Truth Knowledge, He makes Righteous. Not, by bleeding to death.
Third Asset in the eudokian portfolio,
Forgiveness-of-sins: ten aphesin. Sin Insurance.
You name your sin to God, and forget it.
God authorizes the release of funds, as it were, to FIX you.
Forgiveness is FUNDED by what Christ
paid Father, 2000 years ago.
You are always a Child of
God, saved forever. So, there are heavenly
living expenses. You live. You sin.
The sin damages your soul. Now,
if your kid needed lunch money, you'd not say, "well I have it in my bank
account" but give him NOTHING, right?
Okay, so your kid had to
ADMIT he needed money. Even so, your
Heavenly Father waits for you to admit you sinned, to justify spending Christ's
past payment FOR you, ON you. Because,
your kid might try to get the money somewhere else. Because, you might try to 'pay' for your sin,
yourself. Always failing, of
course.
You are
Christ's property and his 'kid', as well.
His Payment to Father is to be spent ON you, Isaiah 53:10 contract. But it won't be spent on you, if you won't
use 1John1:9. So you name sins to God and He what? "purifies you from all malfeasance (literal translation
1John1:9b)." Insurance policy. Errors and Omissions. Damages paid when they occur. Funded prior, paid now.
Paid to do
what? Develop you spiritually. BUY THE WORLD, Time. Hopefully you saw on pages 3 and 4, how vital
it is to the world's weal, that you grow spiritually. Using 1John1:9, is the greatest and only good
deed a human can do. For only God, is
good. So guess how much God must spank
you if you won't use it? YOUR FAULT, if
the world is hurt by your not growing!
That's what ten aphesin means. Sin
insurance. All the
premiums were paid by Christ 2000 years ago.
So USE THE POLICY, 1John1:9. Or you'll never ever
understand Bible, you spit on Christ's Payment;
you hate people, too, for God will only bless them if He grows,
YOU! So you want God to curse THEM, if
you won't use 1John 1:9!
Use
The Credit Card =>
(a teenager made for me in
2008)
Fourth Clause: Note the clever sandwiching placement here. Palindromic, goes forward or backward or
stands alone. Ties back to the first epainon
clause, in verse 6.
The entire passage is like this; each clause stands alone, both
poetically and syntactically, yet there is more. Yeah, always more! And to imagine, this Paul guy was saddled
between two praetorian guards under house arrest in Rome, awaiting Trial. He just DICTATED this right out of his
mouth! So Paul's flow and thinking here, the
awesome GENIUS of it, is a DEMONSTRATION of the very ploutoi he's talking about. Living example, genius writing, easy flow --
Holy Genius, wholly enjoyable!
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First Clause: Greek perisseuw means to overflow like a
flood you very much like: someone 'flooding' you with a bizillion dollars, for
example; opening up the cargo section of a mid-air C-31 transport, the
money only raining down on you.
So the usual translations are fine, and I used my pastor's, though I'm
not too fond of the word 'superabounds'.
Too churchy.
Fourth Asset in the eudokian
portfolio,
Every Class of Wisdom and Clear
Thinking:
en pasei sophiai kai phronesei
God authorizes Release of Christ's Thinking Funds, to Clone Him.. in you.
"For We Have the Thinking of Christ"
1Cor2:16, metron..merous
When we read words like
'wisdom' and -- I forget how translators phrase phronesei, maybe 'sober
judgment' or something equally appalling -- when we read these words, we sigh
in self-righteousness and learn nothing.
These words were specifically defined in Greek culture, made famous by
Plato and the other philosophers. To the
Greeks, it was all about pleasure on the one hand, and intellectual stimulation
on the other. Wisdom to them was a
thinking thing, and phronesis meant just that: clear thinking. An aphron was a fuzzbrain, someone
incapable of clear thinking, hence the English translation, 'fool'.
So Paul is
using very precise terminology here, and in Greek to Greeks. He's carefully building on what they already
know, and since Ephesians is modeled after Euripides' play Ion, he's
weaving in a famous myth of Greek origin to show them the REAL Origin of Time,
the Real God; so that believers can successfully communicate the Real Plan of Time,
to their fellow Greeks. It's an awesome
thing he does, here.
This is also
a function of Redemption funding. Here,
Paul focuses on the CONTENT of what you can know. Redemption itself is a series of funds, so
Paul now must list them severally. All
of them, subsets of epainon which is a subset of eudokia. The eudokia bookends are about
purpose; the epainon bookends, result; but in between, what OPERATION
occurs?
So your second
asset in the eudokia portfolio, Redemption, itself has subsets which alike are
separate portfolios of their own.
o APHESIN, Forgiveness-of-Sin assets. You get
these each time you use 1John1:9, even if you don't learn and live on
Bible. You won't grow, but you are still
fixed enough so you CAN grow. You avoid
illness this way, so USE THE VERSE.
o You grow, as a result of learning and living on Bible between sins. In what? WISDOM
and CLEAR THINKING. Bad decisions come from bad
thinking; an unhappy life comes from bad
thinking. Like a bad computer program,
it's difficult to unravel bad thinking.
Bible in your head will reprogram you, as you consent to learning and
living, on it.
o So this is a real asset helping you in every
category of your life. Hence the pasei, 'every class'. Whether you're inside or outside, Bible
class. For God hears you 24/7; it won't be pleasing to Him to hear you think
badly. So, He provides a way to think
well. As well as His Son.
o You need wisdom, to rule. You need to be clear-headed, to rule. It
requires much repetition of, 'How do I apply Bible to this email, this grocery
list, this appointment?' For, that's how you should be thinking, were you wise
and clear-headed. This
is Christ's Thinking (next verse), so you get to practice living as Christ did; He was always thinking
toward Father. So every decision had
pro's and con's; and it's a Ruling, to decide between them, as we saw back with
the first eudokia.. thelematos clause, in verse 5.
o So repeating 1John1:9 and repeating learning and living on Bible will
transform your life in a very short time, less than a year. Even a month. Begin
to use the verse habitually, and study under whomever is your right pastor (ask
God who that is). Do that, see what
happens.
Verse
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Fifth Asset in the eudokian
portfolio,
Thinking like Christ:
ynwrisas ..to musterion
God authorizes Biggest Release of Christ's Thinking Funds, to
Clone Him.. in you.
"For We Have the Thinking of Christ"
1Cor2:16, metron..merous
With this
verse, Paul concludes his sequential meter-mapping of Isaiah 53:9-11, in order. He also finishes mapping to Psalm 90:1-5a. [How
clever, to break the 63 into 56+7, tying
to BOTH Moses and Isaiah. For at 56, the
sum 28+56=84. Oh! And since Christ is the Last Adam, Paul ties
to the first clause in Psalm 90:5 @7
syllables, which begins the Adamic voting period 'testimony', is about Flood as
Divine Judgment, announced at least 1000 years in advance, by Enoch. At the same time, 56+7=63, which is 14 short
of the 84; Moses deliberately broke his
meter that way (verse 3 ending at 63): for the Millennium depends on the 14,
first completing. Further, Moses didn't
subparse the verse at 14, but as 12 and 9, which of course is three
sevens; clever way to say Israel will go
overbudget. I didn't see all this at
first, as I mis-parsed Eph1:9 as one unit of 63 syllables. When
auditing eudokian anaphora's meter, however, I learned I had mis-parsed,
so learned of this 56+7 construction.
See: Bible is self-auditing; even
shows how to parse the very syllables, so you can check your elision
assumptions!]
First Clause: see End Notes b and g. Here Paul introduces the grand theme of KNOWING
CHRIST, the goal of the spiritual life.
Observe that you are to KNOW Someone, not do something. Paul sets up his prayer in Eph3:15-19, and
the 'destination of life', Greek verb katantaw in Eph4:12, to get the same Maturity
as Christ's Own, Eph4:13. That's the
Rapture criterion of the Body of Christ, and your own personal criterion
for the length of your life.
Paul got there,
2Tim4:6-8; so, like Enoch, his life was over.
So we can get there, too.
The word 'mystery' is new vocabulary, but the concept is
thoroughly OT in origin. The typical OT
idea was 'hidden'. Paul updates it to 'mystery'
because the term is a culturally-loaded word, in Greek. Thus Paul
UNITES Hebrew and Greek concepts when he invokes the Hidden Understanding
Promise in the 'New Covenant' to Israel, recorded in Jeremiah 31:31-34. The Temple was the stand-in for the Temple to
Come; when He came, He'd be REVEALED,
and His Thinking would therefore also be Revealed, so everyone could get it. 'God with us' was to become 'God in us' --
but until that God the Son took on Humanity, there was no way to GET that
Thinking. For, we have souls, and until
His Own SOUL existed and was built, humans couldn't get that much
intimacy. So that's why they had to make
do with angelic visits, rituals, etc. As we can see, they were amazingly
skilled with Scripture, just the same.
But the level promised them was much higher, as it becomes easier
to COPY His Soul Structure, once that Structure exists. Written Bible, is that Copy. Structure of Principles and connections. Just as promised.
So that's why Paul uses the term 'hidden' and 'mystery'.
HIDDEN IN CHRIST. Now, revealed, because
He came, was developed, and now has Won, for All Time. So now, you can know Him intimately. And you come to know Him intimately, only one
way: through Scripture. OT and NT.
Completed now. No dreams,
visions, experiences, etc. That was all
kid stuff, and only demons play those games, now. Holy Spirit only uses Bible. And if you use 1John1:9, learn-and-live-on-Bible,
you'll see how phenomenal a life, it is.
You eventually can think as well as Paul writes, here. I know.
It happens to me often. I
recognize what's happening to Paul when he writes. I've even seen it happen to others who've
only been in the spiritual life, for a year or two! The 'secret' is to use 1John1:9 like
breathing, learn and live on Bible under whomever God appointed personally for
you, as your own pastor; then use Bible as
you know it. Holy
Spirit RECALLS Scripture and how it applies, John 14:26. It's lightning fast. You can test this claim yourself, in your own
life.
And then you will come to
know what's hidden to most people, Eph 3:15-19:
Christ. Through Scripture. Really know Him. Just as God promised, ever since Jeremiah
31:31-34 (elaborated
on in the Book of Hebrews).
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Of course, people like to
think that being smart is something they achieved. Not God's Smarts, Rom4:1-2. And of course, even with smarts there's a
certain diligence, it's not magic. God
doesn't just bing the information into your head: it's RECALL He provides, and He CONNECTS THE
DOTS. Well, if there's nothing to
connect, then nothing happens. Hence
Hebrews 11:6, you have to ask God, use 1John1:9, and study. He makes that study supernaturally effective. But hey: some people wanna do it themselves,
and others don't want to do it at all.
In secular life, you can be
ignorant or cognizant. Whatever you
know, is a 'mystery' to those who don't know it. Further, you can 'do' a lot of things and be
ignorant at the same time. Which
means, someone who knows, will have to have authority over you, since that
other person knows, but you do not.
The big bucks for jobs, all require knowledge. The low bucks for jobs, don't.
So it is even more true, since Church's Job is To Rule, that each
of us must LEARN God's Thinking.
Hidden in Christ, Who pioneered our spiritual life (favorite theme of my
pastor's, using Hebrews 12:2's Archegos to explain this). Now He is revealed (Greek phanerow), His Thinking can be copied into us, a kind of DDNA as we
learn and live on Bible, 1Peter 2:21;
and in 2Pet2-3, we have the dire warning of what happens, when we don't
do that. [When I first realized this 'DDNA' idea from
something my pastor said in his year 2000 (summer?) exegesis of Phili 1:20,
explaining megalunw -- I excitedly wrote up a windy but still useful
webseries, starting with http://www.brainout.net/DDNA.htm
. Will have to edit that series, for
wordiness. But the content is okay. My pastor taught the same subject for 50
years, with similar jargon.]
Bible=Christ's
Thinking, remains a 'mystery' to those who don't know it. So, God uses them as peasants: they can (incompetently) do the small things,
like witness, give money to the poor, endlessly debate kindergarten theology (Hebrews 6:1-6): dip or sprinkle, is God one or
three, is Christ God, do we keep the sabbath, should women
wear hats in church, how do you prove God exists, denominational
squabbles, does the Bible agree with science or contain errors,
etc. ad nauseam. Being children, they think those small things are big
things; so they pride themselves, puff up, swell up and eventually, die as
ignorant as they were re-born. It's
heartbreaking. They never learn the Real
Spiritual Life; nor will they brook being informed of it, either. They deem themselves spiritual giants,
2Cor10:12. But at least their lives
aren't wholly lived in vain, Isa54:1. Wa-tsahali,
lo-hala!
By contrast,
those who learn and live on God's Word, spend their time instead on bible. So to compensate for the time they AREN'T busy like peasants, the learning-Christ
believers spend five seconds to PRAY;
hence the poor will be kitted out, to bustle. Christ wasn't kidding when He said,
Ask Anything in My Name and I will do it. [Jn.
14:13f; 16:26.] So, YOU study; the peasants who won't, can do what you
should NOT do.
A peasant prides himself on
his lowness. So if you refuse to be low,
you are called arrogant. The peasant is
the one who's arrogant. So all you can
do with him, is give him something low to do.
His arrogance competes with learning, so he doesn't learn well. He deems learning, snooty. He deems it snotty. Or, he compliments those who do learn, as
a substitute for learning, himself.
For he deems learning valuable, only
to get status, recognition or approval; the learning itself has no value, to him. He projects his prejudices onto anyone who
does learn. So the one learning will
advance, even in secular culture. So the
one not learning retards, even in secular culture. So humans end up unequal, even if of equal
innate talent. And frankly, learning is
more the product of desire than intelligence.
IF you want to learn, you will keep on doing it, even if
difficult for you. Hence, society is
filled with people of unequal status, as it is filled with people of unequal
desire to learn. The status, comes from competence
in using what you learn (ideally).
That's
how it is in heaven, too. How well
did you learn and live on Bible? is the sole Reward Inquiry at the Bema,
1Cor3.
This, is warranted. No one expects the Queen of England to sweep
the floor. She orders the floor
swept, and someone else, does it. You
are training for a Royal Ruling Inheritance aka 'crown', under the King of the
Universe. So your job is to learn His
Thinking, not sweep the floor!
See: the
rich person orders a thing be done, five seconds. The poor one does it, five months. Thus the poor will have employment at his own (self-chosen) level; since he won't
become rich in Christ. You don't ask
kids to do adult jobs. And we train
to be adults, no longer children, Eph4:14.
A child didn't pray Daniel 9.
Yet even a child, can pray.
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Christ spent
His Time learning Word, not hustling about with good deeds. By the end, only sin was a 'mystery' to
Him; that is, until Father poured out
all sins in history onto Him, 2Cor5:21.
So there is no mystery to learning Him, nothing about God or His Word you can't know. All that, Paul says in this clause (and in nearly every verse he
writes).
Training in thinking
requires coordination with the body, so it's not like you sequester yourself
with The Book. You live a quasi-normal
life. But you don't value the deeds of
themselves; they are training aids,
only. When you wash the dishes, there's
some doctrine you can associate, to learn ruling better. Same with other daily activities. And THAT is the difference. The peasant, is all do do dodo doo-doo. But you are using Bible as you do whatever, and
thus learning
to THINK in
a coordinated manner. Different
purpose. Much bigger results. Royal, even.
So like Christ, we are to ROYALLY spend our time LEARNING WORD,
Deuteronomy 8:3 parlayed into Matthew 4:4. The
devil wanted Christ to do peasant stuff there, did you notice? Feed the poor by making ALL the stones become bread: thus
Satan threw rocks at Christ Learning Bible, rather than eat.
'Fasting' in
Mosaic Law, was to Save Time For Study. My pastor covered that fact a bizillion times,
when the topic arose during his teaching.
This is quite understandable:
even in secular life, if you've got something to do but need food, you
might grab a quick snack and eat at the computer, in the car, etc.; or, forego
eating entirely, until you get that something, done. For eating is a distraction, and takes
time. Even in our modern age.
But religious peasants both
in OT and ever after, hating learning, of course instead glorify the
BODY ACT of not eating, to make it
spiritual. Get the pun? They won't eat Word, so glorify Not Eating. And of course, not eating food is no more
spiritual, than eating it. So fasting
was never a spiritual thing in the Law. Rather, to bypass the hassle of
preparing, cooking, and eating food, was a convenience; and you trusted God
to keep your body alive, the meanwhile. So
it was a hope God would keep you
healthy, while you learned His Word more intensively. And of course, God wants you to learn, so the
hope is justified. So when Bible records people fasting, that's
shorthand: they took time off to intensively study Word, i.e., Daniel 10
(for Darius the Mede had just died), Matthew 4.
Consequently,
hate-Word-Study peasants twist the bypassing-food convenience
into a status symbol, bypassing ho
Logos, for fasting. Hence status
replaced eating Word; the peasant 'fasts' away from it. So, God will bypass his rewards at the Bemata,
Zech 7. For We are His Temple: we are
only built, by eating Word as He did.
Jump from
the Temple, Second Temptation: wow peasants
to believe in Him, in lieu of
relying on Father's Witness to His Own Son's Learning Word. Again, a body
stunt. In lieu of, spiritual gymnastics
only the Spirit can do in your head.
Barnum and Bailey, oooh and aaah, rather than shocked reverence at
Gorgeous Word.
Take over
the kingdoms of the world by zapping Satan, Third Temptation: again, a body politic, rather than a
spiritual politic. So Christ was
impolitic, not to solve the world's body problems, instead becoming the Spiritual Head the Body should
copy. Get the Royal difference?
Thus ends
the first eudokian bookend. Mystery revealed, Now in Writing, no longer
hidden: to the one who Learns Word as Christ did.
We have all
spiritual blessings, Eph1:3.
Here we've
seen the Body of Thinking we're to Learn,
The Very
Thinking of Our Lord Jesus the Christ.
Hidden From
(since He wasn't born yet)
and Drooled
Over for centuries,
by millions of
OT believers
.. now
Revealed to us!
Ahem.. and hence the
Portfolio we have and don't use, to become like Christ.
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2nd 'bookend' in the eudokian anaphora.
This second
bookend 'encloses' what went between it and the first bookend. At the same time, it starts a new bookend
pair, which ends verse 11. Notice the word order of this second bookend,
is REVERSED. When Bible writers reverse
the order of all or some of the same words as previously written, they BOOKEND
the passage.
The
writer of Hebrews, for example, does that with Jeremiah 31:31-34, quoting it
from the LXX in Hebrews 8:8-12. He reverses
the order of keywords in Hebrews 10:15-17.
Peasants mistake that reversal as an error. No, it's a rhetorical style. In Hebrews,
writer stresses the DESTINATION of Heb8:8-12, the Holy Spirit interrupting his
flow of writing, even: to make the point via reversal, in Hebrews
10:15-17. Just as a bookend 'mirrors' in
reverse, its left counterpart.
Bookending is a
rhetorical device showing a full-circle effect. First, purpose
is given, and in a certain word order.
At the end of that 'paragraph' or section, the opening lines are
reversed to explain that what is 'between', has now fulfilled its initial
purpose. Or, how its initial purpose
WILL be fulfilled, as here.
Secondly, bookending acts as a WALL. To wall off
anything else as irrelevant or excluded, from what's BETWEEN the bookends. That's what Paul does here. Only
those assets listed between the 'bookends' are from God in Christ. So, he tells you that nothing 'outside' these
assets, are spiritual:
o
verse 6's epainon, Grace Glory Asset
(see epainon anaphora) which only God can make. Can you make Glory? Nope.
o
verse 7's apolutrwsin, Redemption
Funds to grow you; so you can't
'redeem' your bad thinking, either;
o
verse 7's aphesin, Forgiveness-of-sins
Account you use as needed, in time; for
maybe you won't use 1John1:9, and thus retard. For apart from the Spirit, you won't grow, but
will peasantly imagine growth, 1John1:6, 8, 10.
o
verse 8's pasei sophiai kai phronesei, 'all
wisdom and clear-thinking', which only GOD can 'superabound' for you;
o
verse 9's ynwrisas to musterion, 'making
known past-hidden content' of Christ; ONLY God can put Christ's
Head in your soul.
So notice: no good deeds are listed here. Not one.
Only God-deeds. So observe:
o
You cannot glorify
God yourself. God has to do it TO
you. That's epainon.
o
You cannot redeem
your self, your past, your bad habits, your failures, your sins. God alone can fix you. This isn't a salvation question. This is a post-salvation issue of you still
being as you were before salvation: how do you grow up, now that you are
saved? You have to grow up spiritually,
just as you had to grow up physically or mentally.
o
You cannot make
yourself spiritually wise, since
o
GOD makes
known the Bible. So the only way you can
grasp it, is through God. So now you know why there's so much
dissension and controversy in Christianity, and false doctrine: people are all trying to do it on their own
power, but right here from verse 9 you see GOD MUST MAKE KNOWN the
information, or it's a 'mystery' to you.
So bookending
tells you that only what's INSIDE, counts.
What's outside, does not. And what's outside? Anything you can do. If you could do it, Christ wouldn't have to
pay for it. Not one of the above assets
is phrased as something you do, but rather something you HAVE or GET from
God. Only from God. Not from works, not from emotion, not from
rituals, not from any other activity humans do or attributes humans have. Got that?
Paul uses THREE eudokian bookends,
however. So this second bookend, begins
a nested sequel:
Verse 5, eis auton kata ten eudokian tou thelematos autou.
Verse 9 mirrors: tou
thelematos autou kata ten eudokian autou.
Verse 11 concatenates
verse 5 and 9
into one simple clause: kata ten boulen
tou thelematos autou.
So now go to verse 11's bookend in the eudokian anaphora...
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The Meal of Christ,
Set Before Us:
proetheto en autwi
a third nested
anaphora,
First
word in this Trio, Greek proetheto, is a technical term for Temple
offering. It tells you these are Christ's
OWN spiritual assets; that God
places them In Him and thus Before You, like a meal to be eaten. This clause is soundplay on and setup for, verse 11's prothesin, Temple Shewbread. God
treats Time as a meal, and He wants that meal to be His Son's Thinking. So
this is about meal preparation, just as all Temple sacrifices,
depicted. For each of us lives on
thought, Job34:3, Matt4:4, even Proverbs 23:6:
true 'soul food'. So physical
food metaphorically represents how thoughts -- especially God's --
'taste'. So just as you present a
meal for guests, how much more, your thoughts? Ooops.
Proetheto is
the first of three passage keywords for Firstfruits Presentation. See also Verse Notes 11
and 12. Usually
translated 'purpose', verb protithemi's root connotation is to set something before someone, and
when in the middle voice as here, it's most often used for setting forth a
meal you are going to eat. That was
the entire Representation of the Temple.
So the verb shouldn't be translated 'purpose', since the first meaning
is to publicly set forth something for
consumption, i.e., look at it,
venerate it, eat it, comment on it, have it as an offer.. Vote On Him.
So 'published' is part of
the meaning, but still too short; this
isn't merely information to know. Paul
talks back to epouraniois in
Verse 3, How We Are On Public Display,
due to Our Head.
We
now have the SAME Assets Christ Had, to 'eat' for our own spiritual life. My pastor
stressed that when he exegeted Ephesians, a long doctrine he called "our Portfolio Of Invisible Assets". [I've
never seen anyone else supply such a comprehensive, fitting explanation. Ephesians usually gets short shrift, with
pastors focusing on the morality sections, making a sermon or two on being
faithful to your spouse or rearing your kids properly. WE'RE TOTALLY RICH AND ROYAL but have no clue
of our vast eternal wealth? Kill me
now.]
The spiritually immature
have a lot of tangled notions. One of
them, is that it's somehow a sin to be rich.
To be successful. To be famous. Truth is, those are tools you need, to do
something of value in the world. The
best things in life are free; but to get
those things, will cost money and time.
So the more you have of both, the more you can focus on value-added
activities.
So God means to make us
rich. This isn't a prosperity
Gospel. This is about Father Being
High and Perfect so the Standard is High and Perfect so demands High and
Perfect Wealth, to MEET THE STANDARD. A poor person can't do that. So the spiritually-poor, 99% of Christianity,
assign poor ideas of 'worship' and 'spirituality' to God, chiefly in the form
of behavioral observances, morals and good deeds. This is roughly equivalent to a trio of ants
arguing over which of them gave YOU the biggest 'ball of sugar'. That's important to ants, but it doesn't mean
a hill of beans, to you. So there they
are, all proud of themselves and fighting over whose ball of sugar is the most
'holy'. Get the point?
Divine Currency is Bible in
your head. Not sugary good
deeds. And that means WEALTH. Christ called it "true riches". If you got the latter, you can PRAY for
whatever good deeds you want done. And
the spiritually-poor will be equipped to do them, since they reject learning
Bible, in favor of body things with people -- while you the rich one, go on
learning God via God's Word.
To whom much is given, much is
expected. Muchness is a SITTING thing.
Peasants, do. Royals, think and
talk. And, that's all the Bible ever
records of Christ. Go through the
Gospels, see for yourself, Isaiah 53:11, bedato yatsdiq, by means of
Mastering Truth Knowledge, He makes Righteous! Who?
The peasants, the many. You and
me. How?
By His THINKING TRUTH.
Where? On the Cross! He didn't die physically to pay for sins;
physical death never 'paid' for anything.
Your brain can't think, once you've died.
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When a soldier dies on duty,
we honor him, and rightfully so. But the
death ended that duty. So the honor is
due to his willingness, while still alive, to keep on fighting, even TO death.
So even the soldier, doesn't die for us; he LIVED for us, even to the point
of death. That's what Isaiah 53:12,
says. Thinking thinking thinking fighting
fighting fighting even if it kills you.
It takes a long time to
train, and even in the case of a foot soldier, 90% of what he must 'do', is
THINK. Assess terrain. Gauge distance and enemy intent. Analyse what he hears. Conclude supplies and deployments. Think think think. Hurry up and wait. So all that repetition of thinking a
bizillion times, coordinating the big thinking with the little (deft!)
movements, makes a good soldier.
A
blundering hackblade painted with woad, thundering in an open field, is
easily cut down.
So we aren't peasants with
clumsy-but-impressive broadswords, now; but with the two-edged machaira. Surgery.
But 90% of us, prefer to blunder about, rather than learn. So we make good Satan-fodder. Takes years to learn how to perform
surgery. It's tough. The easy works and easy rituals, feel-good
songs, are easier than study. Yet we're
in training to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Yet we instead live like peasants,
spiritually poor, ignorant of the value, of Thinking Doctrine? Living instead on our feelings, our rah-rah
Jesus songs, on how people think of us, on morality or rituals and good
deeds? Then we're just like that ancient
Celtic warrior thinking his blue paint will protect him, that running
full-speed at a smart enemy, will frighten the enemy off. Guess again.
I don't know if you've
noticed, but in Christianity there's a 90% attrition rate. That means, only 10 out of a 100 people who
initially believe in Christ, still believe in Him by life's end. Something always happens to
'disappoint'. God didn't 'deliver' in
some key way, and the now-disgruntled believer, goes into some other religion
or becomes an atheist. Know why? No
Bible Properly Learned. Every
atheist on Youtube who tells his deconversion tale, didn't learn the Bible
properly. He was filled with false
doctrine, even on basics like the Gospel;
and so was everyone in his periphery.
So of course he came to disbelieve.
False doctrines are always silly.
But the Real Word understood, not only makes sense, but has a better
explanation you can TEST -- than anything man can counter. Guaranteed.
But of course you can't know
that until you know IT. The Word. You don't know Bible if you can recite
it. That's like knowing ABCs. You have to ACCOUNT for every doctrine you
know; ACCOUNT, for why some other
idea is wrong. You must precisely
know one verse from another; and why
seeming contradictions, aren't. That's
how a surgeon must think. A lawyer. A doctor.
And with the Spirit's power, you are INTENDED TO BE smarter than any of
them. You are intended, to become as
smart as Christ Himself, Eph1:14 and 4:13!
Shocking, huh. But think: anything less than Christ, we recognize as
insufficient. So: can't the same Holy Spirit, Who Made The
Christ Able To Endure The Cross, Make Us Like Him? Sure He can.
His Power, not ours.. so no limits, due to ours.
But you won't even come
close to being as smart as Christ, if you don't use those eudokian assets. For those assets, turn you into First Fruits:
for
o if
you eat what God proetheto'd,
o then
you will be prothesin, and
o thus
you are proelpikotas.
o Ahead.
First in line. Not
better, but front-line;
while those believers who aren't using the same assets as you have, are far off
doing something else they mistake, as spiritual. Again, why do you think I sound so
smart? Because I use 1John1:9 and thus
God spends His assets on me. No other
reason.
So if you're not using 1John
1:9 like breathing, all your assets lie fallow;
since you lie to God, and to yourself. That's what the stingy servant did, Luke 19:20. You're not spiritual, but as
1John1:8 says, you imagine that you are.
For people epainon our behavior, our Christian songs and
buzzwords, our spouting Bible verses we really don't understand.. and then we
end up skinny, having fasted from the Word for too long; we secretly feel God didn't reward us as we
should have been rewarded, for being so faithful. And we end, a 90% casualty, Psalm 90:7, 9 --
though Psalm 90:8 was paid on our behalf, 2000 years ago.
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Yeah, my pastor
drilled the above into the congregation's head until you can't forget it. That was his goal. Now, it's mine. I can't honor God if I'm
spiritually-poor! Honor means you
give something worthy to someone worthy, by that
person's standards. And the Only
Standard, is what? The Way, The Truth
and the Life. Thinking like Him,
1Cor2:16.
So
much of what I've had to publish, exposes long-beloved myths in common
Christian playpens. Much of that material comes from
Bible classes I'd heard under my pastor; but I independently found the same
material in Bible, so he can't be blamed for what I write or say. He is blamed, severally: for much of what he said for 53 years, he
also proved from Scripture, and his own words are recorded live; no one need rely on hearsay. Much to the consternation of many in
conservative Christendom, he proved that Christianity is IN the playpen, from
Scripture. He tried to be nice about it,
but a spade is a spade. Integrity
demands honesty, and Justice requires disclosure. So he gave it.
The Bible is the BIBLE, and it's high
time we paid attention to it again, rather than cloistering around fake elites; or,
thumping it on our thighs as we sing Rah-Rah Jesus and argue with the atheists
over a 6-day initial creation, no Bible ever teaches.
Bible scholarship has been abysmal, starting with the
so-called 'Church Fathers' (of apostasy!) as many scholars even know; yet no
one fesses up to the sheep and corrects the centuries-long errors?? Instead, the errors are taught! We justify silence, based on a
politically-convenient abuse of
'Christian love'. You don't
love people if you don't love God, says 1John. We surely don't love God, for we make nice with
egregious interpretations, mistranslations and false doctrines, in the name of
Christian unity?!
And that Unity is long broken, precisely
because the sheep aren't getting the TOOLS taught to them, so they can see for
THEMSELVES what Bible really says. My pastor
taught us the Hebrew and Greek vocabulary as he went along, using the KJV (and
later NASB) as his base; when the
translation was wrong, he just told us the mss information, corrected
the translation, and moved on. We
groaned over the detail, we were bored with the technicalities; but we didn't
condemn, those who made mistakes; for we
ourselves make a billion mistakes, every day.
No problem. Window broke, you
fix it and move on. So we lost no
respect for Bible teachers and authorities;
if anything, we respect them the more; for when you see their errors,
you can easily appreciate how they were made;
we humans have a rough life. So,
respect for the discipline (and politics!) of academia, heightened.
For if the sheep aren't told, they WILL
find out through the enemy, i.e., from the atheists or other group who knows where bodies are
buried. Then, the sheep turn away from
their denomination or church, in distrust. They weren't trained like we were, to just
accept the mistakes as one learns, since we all make mistakes, no big
deal. So, that's why you have a 90%
attrition rate in Christianity, bread from an unholy trinity:
False doctrine is taught;
Mistakes aren't corrected;
Pride of protecting past scholars, matters more than proving Bible's
INTEGRITY;
Pride of political position within one's group, matters more than the
primacy of God's WORD.
No wonder people quit. The Christian
doctrinal window is broken in many places:
Replace The Window. Then, move on.
Mistakes are the norm, and expected.
No shame in making them. But
covering them up, pretending the doo-doo is chocolate? That will be
exposed at the Bema. The past scholars
who made mistakes, now living in heaven, will have their reproach REMOVED
if we clean up after them, here in the 21st century. Wouldn't we want the same favor, done for us?
God knows He made the materials easier
than ever, to learn and use! End
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First Clause
Sixth Asset in the eudokian portfolio,
eis oikonomian tou pleromatos twn kairwn
Estate Management of Time
Giving Birth to Eternity,
via Pregnancy House, Church!
I maintain
that a majority of Christian confusion, even among those who can read Hebrew
and Greek, is due to them not 'getting' Bible's wordplay; not noticing, key rhetorical styles used to
convey vital doctrines we all haggle over. Every
verse in Bible employs deft wordplay, and all the scholars know it exists. Maybe they are overworked; maybe it's politics; but for whatever reason, the wordplay is not
taught the sheep; yet when the sheep
read Bible, they seize on what wordplay they find.. but they don't find
much. Translations rarely capture the
humor. It's not Christian to be funny, I
guess.
Wordplay is rife in
Judaism. Yeah, they got that keen sense
of what's funny, ironic, wry -- from Bible.
We Christians, think it's not respectable to be witty. God must be boring to be majestic. And so the translations bland Him out, clothe
His naked wit and do all sorts of other things in translation to make it
acceptable to translation committees and their bored-with-Bible-but-I-need-it-as-a-status-symbol
public. Our Puritan background has done
us much harm.
Puritans
don't like pregnancy wordplay. Not
respectable. Too bad, but that's what
this verses is about, a play on Chronos, the god of Time who ate his kids as
soon as they were born, aka Saturn, aka the Saturnalia festival which was
occurring on the very day the Lord Jesus Christ was born. First day of Chanukah, to the Jews. Wittily, God told Zerubbabel that would be
the Lord's Birthday, back when only the Foundation was laid, on 24-nearly-25
Chislev, 521 bc. You can read all about it in Haggai 2. So the not-yet-built 2nd Temple, would, 357
years later, become the object of desecration by a demented Antiochus IV, who
thought he was Epiphanes. So the
lights went out, in the Temple. So the
lights went on 2300 days after Anti-baby ran over Egypt, and the Temple
instituted the Feast of Dedication, Chanuk=Enoch, to herald the Lord's Birth,
164 years later to the day. Paul uses
this fact, to craft the syllables for the eudokian anaphora.
The Catholics, maybe got it right by accident.
You have to
know all that background, to get this verse. Christ
was born to SAVE TIME from ending. You
have to know the Doctrine of Time (summarized on pages 3 and 4 of this
document), to understand this verse.
Church is the BRIDGE to complete Time.
Messiah's Time. Owed Him from the
Exodus forward. Recorded by Moses. Updated by Isaiah 53 and Daniel 9. Clearly discernible in their meter. And totally unknown, if you don't know the
meter. Worse, if you know the Jews still
have this 'thing' about the times, you won't understand they get it from Bible,
which Paul here invokes.
The 'Estate Management
of Time': oikonomian=estate
management, twn kairwn=Time; in plural, because there are specific
epochs in God's Management of Time. First epoch, Adamic, ending with Abraham. Second of the kairoi
was Jewish Time, from Abraham to Christ.
Who Came and Left the Building, Cornerstone Rejected, but He paid for a
yet-to-be-born Bride, Church, having contracted to BUY her in
Matthew 16:18, ratifying it to Father's Discretion, John 17:17-23. That's why we're here, and that's why this
verse is here.
It
becomes an Asset of Church, this Bridging Role He legated to us, which Father
'manages'. It becomes an asset, for those who use the
first five, are On Trial as Christ was;
if they successfully pass the Endurance Test, they will be crowned kings
like Paul was, in 2Tim4:6-8. And they
will end up ruling their Isaiah 53:12 'atsumim' portion of Church..
forever. During the Millennium, these
same kings will each rule over one or more Gentile nations on earth. Whether the Church believers will rule with
them, I can't yet prove. My pastor
speculated that the rest of Church will just be looking on.
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So let's get
into the Greek here, because your average joe-blow preterist would balk at this
interpretation. That, because he doesn't know
Bible's doctrine of Time, so he doesn't know how to cross-reference the Greek
here, to learn it. And, he has almost no
respect, even if knowledge, about the cultural allusions of Paul, since after
all the Greeks were pagan. Huff.
Paul
isn't writing to pagans, but Christians.
They are Greeks, so why not use cultural concepts they know, to
illustrate Bible truths? If I use a
stoplight to illustrate the Gospel as a GO
only if you believe, and stop if
you never believe, that's a helpful thing to do. So, that's what Paul does: use ideas the
Greeks understood. And we know what
those ideas, were. So we too can know
exactly, apprehending the very thought of the writer, the goal of
hermeneutics.
So, the
Greek: eivj oivkonomi,an tou/ plhrw,matoj tw/n kairw/n 252 g
To Result in the 'Filling-Up of Times'
Dispensation;
Now, word by word:
eivj Preposition of Destination. Here, the 'destination' of TIME itself. Hence translated like a verb, in English. In Drama Greek you drop verbs and substitute
nouns, participles, and prepositions with verbal force. That's what Paul does throughout this
passage.
oivkonomi,an Term means 'estate management', idea of a
PROPERTY you own, including all the personal goods within it. God owns everything, and TIME is something
God owns. So to merely truncate the
meaning to 'administration' is both vague and misleading. 'Dispensation' in English comes closer to the
idea here: idea of something you own that you DISPENSE, use, administer
according to your own authority, since you own it. Here, Time.
tou/ plhrw,matoj Greek pleroma means a fullness of
'cargo', whether in a ship or in a woman.
It is a favorite term of Paul's to signify birthing, on the verge of full-term delivery. Sexual connotation is redolent in Greek
usage, especially with respect to time
and maturation. For the Greek god Chronos would eat his
children as they were born (concept of time eating away). Translators and lexicographers are chary of
explaining this kind of 'fullness'; but you won't appreciate the Bible's use of
the term if you don't know its cultural meaning. Consider, Paul is writing to Greeks who well
know and would smile at this term. They
would immediately value what Paul meant.
So
literally, Paul writes 'resulting in the Dispensation of the Pregnancy Fullness
of Time'. It makes for awkward English,
and had more syllables than he used in Greek.
tw/n kairw/n literally, 'of the times', but you have to
know that kairos means an epoch
of time which
has a particular covenant attached to it, when used in the
Bible. So for the plural, the best English
translation would be 'Dispensations';
but that would be repetitive, and I didn't have enough Greek
syllables. The genitive is descriptive,
acting like an adjective for oikonomia.
The
phrase thus means that this Dispensation Of Church
Completes The Estate Management Of Time. The reader who is already familiar with the
Old Testament promises to Israel, therefore, would realize that this phrase
signifies several things:
o Church is the Time Bridge back to the Completion of the Time Promise to Israel, now vested in Christ, just as Moses had written, back in Psalm 90.
o That's why Paul also benchmarks syllable 252 in Psalm 90, which points to Psalm 90:13, which asked, 'Return Oh Lord, How Long?' Thus Moses' prayer is answered by Church. For Church thus bridges back to the promised Tribulation, hence the Promised Millennium, which Moses wrote about, reserving the Time in the first 84 syllables of Psalm 90.
o We Church have an Inheritance IN this Completion (q.v., verse 11), so our 1Cor3 awards will relate to how our growth was used to achieve this goal;
o Satan is tactically defeated in the Angelic Conflict.
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That last point about Satan's defeat is variantly understood in
Christendom.
Nearly every denomination realizes we Church are collectively a
testimony in some vague way, which proves God right and Satan wrong. There is a lot of variance in the
explanations given for this 'testimony'.
Point is, we know at least something about it. Since Satanology isn't well defined in
Christendom, you'll have to analyze or mull over the points below. Or, come up with your own.
I spent about 10 years writing up an analysis of
God versus Satan, trying to see the Big Picture from Adam forward, about this
Trial. The writeup begins in http://www.brainout.net/LordvSatan1.htm
, and that page also functions as an overview of the Trial Issues. The rest of its links (which run maybe 1500 printed pages), trace the history from what I understand in the Bible, based largely
also on what my pastor taught about the Conflict for 53 years. I was trying to make sense of the data we
have, and what he taught. So if you're
interested, you can skim through or read that material.
The upshot, is this:
o Satan claims
God is unfair to give creatures (then, only the angels), free will to
fail. Especially, because God knows they
will fail. So they should not suffer
penalty for using what God gave them.
o Satan and his allies thus rebelled.
So although man was going to be created anyway for the angels to rule
(that is a conclusion), now man's creation is to demonstrate why
Satan is wrong, and THE MAN will pay
for human sins (I maintain angelic sins
were also paid for, based on the lower-than language in Hebrews 2, but
that topic is not germane now).
o Even so, even with His Success at the Cross (theme of Hebrews 2), thus defeating Satan
and being awarded the other kingship of
psalm 110, the question remains -- where's
the Kingdom to go with that Crown?
o Bride of Christ? Well then
a Bride must be worthy of Her Husband.
o So, we get
the same Trial terms as He had, sans actually
paying for mankind's sins on the Cross, since He already did that.
o So we get the
same spiritual assets, and the same responsibility (again, short of paying for all sins,
since He did that).
My pastor taught the above bullets extensively over his ministry. Book of Hebrews is not the only
place where you can see those points validated, but it's a great summary book
on the topic. So far as I can tell, no
one but my pastor ever covered the topic (especially from Hebrews) as
comprehensively. So I refer you to his
classes in Ephesians, Hebrews and Spiritual Dynamics, all live recordings
available from http://www.rbthieme.org.
Second Clause Here a literal translation is
better, to show the full meaning of this very long Greek word.
Third
Clause Paul uses ta panta as a bullet point. Sweeping language, and clever double-entendre
on the nickname for Christ as The All
Things.
Fourth
Clause Same idea as in third clause, abbreviated to
'ta'. It's considered good Greek
rhetoric to shorten expressions to their (nee: definite) articles whenever
possible, especially in dramatic repetition, as here.
Fifth
Clause Same idea as in fourth clause.
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First
clause: the kai in Greek is an 'emphatic kai'. I should redden, bold and
make kai 16 points high.
This is a most climactic verse, as you'll soon see. It should be impossible to top verse 10's
drama, but Paul does! Impossible not
to know God Wrote This Book! I
shouldn't be allowed to see this and live.
Preview of coming distractions: YOU, dear believer (and me too), INHERIT
Christ's OWN Victory Over Satan (verse
10), which wraps up all history. We could know that from Hebrews 1 and 2, from
Psalm 110: for Christ's Kingship invoked to create Church in Matt16:18 PREDATED
His Jewish Kingship: hence we even exist. Okay, but INHERIT alongside Him? Oh yeah!
That's why Eph4:13 reads as it does!
We should all be executed at once, for not using Our Divine Assets!
Temple
Shewbread, prothesin
the second keyword in our third
nested anaphora,
Second clause, prothesin, alters how
you read Ephesians. This is the second keyword in the third
anaphora Paul creates in the passage, which here we'll call Temple Trio. This
is another specialized word. Paul isn't
talking about any ol' plan, but rather, Temple Shewbread. It's the second of three Temple keywords Paul
uses to draw analogy. See
also Verse 9's and
Verse 12's notes on proetheto and proelpikotas,
respectively.
This Trio proves Juridical Consistency With Prior
Covenants. Again, Paul stresses Church has her own
covenant, but that brings up the issue of Whether
It's Fair To Make The Change. So,
he wants to show not only that it's fair, but consistent
with what Israel had; again, to head off
jealousy over the Jews. You know how
jealous or puffy we humans get when someone has something different from 'our'
stuff.
And frankly, that's what shows up here, a deliberate
coverup of what translators know, is a JEWISH term. [I'm sure
they decided, "well, the sheep won't understand this, and it will take too
long to explain": to which I say,
'Balderdash!' If God uses a special
word, it should be specially translated, and then TAUGHT to the sheep. My pastor taught it; we the congregation didn't vomit (well, some
did). We learned. And yeah, for awhile it was boring to study
the entire Levitical-sacrifice structure, just to know what this one word
meant. But worth it! Why do you think I sound so
competent? Why do you think I have so
much confidence in the Word? Because I
UNDERSTAND it! Confidence comes from
understanding SCRIPTURE, not from patting people on the head, or rah-rah Jesus
songs.]
So to mistranslate prothesin as
merely 'plan' or 'purpose', masks Paul's tracking of TEMPLE, both in his meter, and in the text. For Paul points to Daniel 9 as Precedental
job for CHURCH. So let's review what
that means.
The Temple was Bible in Architecture,
As Temple
Portrayed the Promised Word-Becomes-Flesh.
90% of what Christians 'know' about Bible
is flashcard knowledge. They don't know
why there was a Temple; they grow up
hearing of it as holy, good; and they unthinkingly accept what they
hear, as they only care about fitting-in.
So they never know what it represented. Neither do the Jews. They piously and daily bob at the Wailing
Wall, see it live on the Kotel webcam, from Aish.com! So much tsav
l'tsav. So very very much lev, lo-lev. It's heartbreaking.
Accordingly, for centuries the hoi
pouloi in every religion on the planet rotely engage in pet rituals, the
sacred buildings obsessively venerated by all, visited, photographed; yet what
do those buildings mean? People
don't know. To them, the buildings are
holy, and you're holy too if you visit them. Bob and nod, say you've been there, it's
all a status symbol of cheap substitutes.
You gaze-to-praise a building, to take the place of, Building
in the Word. Bob at a Wall, for Scripture
is a Wall to you: sounds to recite
at church, shul, bar/bat mitzvah, claim you've done mitzwot; chant the Kaddish, give luck to the
dead. All in lieu of, Learning What
Word the Temple Depicted. Yeah, ho
logos einai nekros, in you.
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By contrast, the dead-but-expensive
stones of God's Jerusalem Temple, depicted Live Word-To-Come. Bible's 'Temple' means 'God Dwelling With
Us': promise of savior to come. Every feature
was a metaphor of something ABOUT Him.
My pastor stressed that fact a thousand times, when exegeting Temple OT
passages.
o
2Samuel 7, David had finished conquering Jerusalem, built
himself a nice palace to live in.. but God was 'living' in a tent! That upset David.
o
So, he asked the
prophet Nathan about it. Get the witty
setup, here: Nathan was one of David's younger sons through Bathsheba,
hence the progenitor of Mary.
o
So, God gave
Nathan one of the wittiest Divine Promises in Scripture: Oy gevalt!
(Look-how-I'm-qvetching-but-really-pleased-You-CARE): What house can contain Me? Ho-kay, I give up, you can make a Temple for
Me. And by the way, I'll make a House of
Sons for you FOREVER, such a mensch!
o
God's Wit is
hysterical, even in translation! Go
read 2Sam7!
o
I hope you know, huge chunks of Bible are on Temple
Architecture in extreme detail, i.e., 1Chron24 et seq., all of Ezekiel after
Chapter 39. So here is this God Who
loudly 'protests' at HAVING a house, yet is positively anal ABOUT that House,
even as He was about Tent-of-Meeting specs with Moses!
o
Upon which Temple
The Christ, a later son of Nathan -- played, in John 14: I go to Build a House for you. House of Sons. He
Who Had No Descendants Will Birth All, Isaiah 53:8, 12, 54:1!
The wit never ends, in
God's Word. How can you not fall in love
with it? With Him??
But until He came, how to depict
Him? Since Bible was serially formed? Architecture,
baby.
Jacob's sons were construction slaves under Pharaoh (not
agricultural slaves, duh). 400
years of building prowess, now used.
So, pending
completion of Canon in writing, you learned the same material by the densely-packed
metaphors in each article and ritual of the Temple and its worship. Temple stood for Temple to Come in the
Flesh, as a result of Whom you'd
have the Law written in your hearts, Jeremiah 3:16 compared to
Jer31:31-34. Because, until He Took on
Humanity, there was No Soul To be The CopyBook. [Petrine term hupogrammos (1Pet2:21),
a tablet kids used to learn how to write letters.] You couldn't
yet become a COPY of Him.
Meanwhile, Temple and its allied
activities were like daily life; you'd
recall the sacred meanings, while you did your secular duties. So you'd
'copy' those meanings in your head, thus finally enjoying the day's
banalities and frustrations. Yeah, God
uses low things, like flying ovens, to
make covenants! [Genesis 15:17. Just imagine, the next time Abraham
used an oven or peed, he'd recall what God meant! My pastor reminded us of that, often.]
Book of Hebrews shows how this Temple To
Come, Finished His Task; so now His Thinking can be built in you, just as
promised. That theme elaborates on what
Paul says, here. So let's notice:
o
Temple depicts the Body of Christ en toto. Every feature.
o
Lampstands symbolize the Doctrine (Light) in Him, the Holy
Spirit enabling Him.
o
Sacrifices memorialize what HE would do to please Father and
thus pay for our sins.
o
So the Temple Shewbread signify Him 'harvested'; and at the same time, believers 'harvested' due to
Him. Bread of the Presence. Wheat was grown, harvested, prepared; and now, baked for God to
'eat'. It takes THINKING, to make
bread. Our sins were Paid by the Bread
of Heaven THINKING on the Cross, Isaiah 53:11.
o
So, He had to
be Prepared. So, you have to prepare FOR
Him. preparation, Greek paraskeué,
comes from 'container', Greek word skenos. In classical Greek, it denotes the advance
work often related to a major public event.
So it came to have a sacred-function meaning; and in Jesus' day, was a
nickname for how you 'prepared' for the sabbath; especially, the Passover sabbath.
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o
For
the Preparation is Christ [Matt. 27:62; Mk. 15:42; Lk. 23:54; Jn. 19:14, 31, 42] . Preparation for Life With God.
o
Passover-eve readiness;
sabbath-eve readiness. Temple Bread
prepared DAILY 'from sabbath to sabbath', Lev 24:8, so there was a plan to make it, bake it, present it
fresh and hot. [Bread
is a fragile nightmare; that's why
flatbread became popular, and noodles.
Shewbread was raised, not flat;
Leviticus 23:9-21, hence 24:5-7 injunction. It must be grown, ground, leavened just
right. Takes all day, as you WAIT for
the yeast to raise the dough. Talmudic rabbis err to claim it weekly flatbread; for it = THE LIVING (warm) BOUGHT BY
CHRIST. Just like morning and evening offerings. You baked it even on the SABBATH, when
normally it wasn't legal to bake.]
o
Sacrifices and Bread and Light were SET BEFORE (proetheto) in TEMPLE, an Offering for FATHER to 'eat',
as it
were. Idea of Living for His
Pleasure. So prothesin, Shewbread
= Nature, Spiritual Life of Christ-to-Come, how the 'smell' of His Thinking
Pleases Father, Isaiah 53:11; resulting,
in our own 'presentation' before Father.
Forever.
Third clause, tou
ta panta. Paul plays with
that phrase, here: The All Things: Him. The Everything. So I added, 'Through Whom' to make that dual
entendre, clearer. Christ is THE TEMPLE
SHEWBREAD. We are to be made into Him. Get the pun?
[Check
out the awesome Greek double-entendres in these verses: Rom. 8:32; 11:36; 1 Co.
2:15; 8:6; 12:6, 19; 15:27f; Gal. 3:22; Eph. 1:10f, 23; 3:9; 4:10, 15; Phil.
3:8, 21; Col. 1:16f, 20; 3:8, 11; 1 Tim. 6:13.
So I privately call Him Ta Panta.
Sometimes I forget myself in videos and say Ta Panta, too!]
last 'bookend' in the eudokian portfolio
The Delight of His Will and Purpose,
ten boulen
tou thelematos autou:
Father
ordains Church to Complete Time,
Make
Her into the Very Glory of Christ
We got a three-way
anaphoric nest going on here; it all began back in verse 5, in the '91'
depicting Father's Eternity-Past Decree about Christ, updated with the clauses
Father ordained for Church. Because,
CHRIST is The Election: we are only elected IN Him, not of ourselves. [Maybe
one day Calvinists will learn how to read prepositions in Ephesians 1:4, etc. ]
Gist:
The Good Will and Pleasure of Father is to make us sons in Christ (verse 5), Who is the 77th Son, dying at age 33;
Who thereby became the Asset Portfolio we can 'eat', now that He is revealed (verse 9); as a result of which we become Temple
Shewbread and Firstfruits, like Him (verses 11+12). The summed eudokian meter is 231 syllables = Daniel 9:24-27, God's Reply
to Daniel. So this anaphora updates that reply
with God's Will and Purpose for Church, as 'inside' what God told Daniel: hence
the witty hidden-from-eternity-past musterion language of Pleromatos
Pregnant Time, a theme Paul loves repeating in Romans 8, Galatians 4, and
of course in Ephesians.
This is the final eudokian
anaphoric bookend. Paul now completes
his reference to Isaiah 53:11, LXX, which uses bouletai, twice: first re Father, second re
Son. Paul ropes both prior 'bookends' into one
concatenated unity, here: Purpose Completed, Isa54:1, and Chapter 55,
fulfilled. [The
anaphora began with 3rd +4th clauses in v.5; next 'bookend' was 2nd +3rd clauses in v.9.]
The purpose of the eudokian anaphora is to classify the
'paragraphs' of our ASSETS IN CHRIST. By using anaphora, especially in a nest, Paul vividly illustrates how
our assets are related to the other anaphora he nested in this
passage.
So let's look at
them. This eudokian anaphora is the first of three sets of
anaphoric constructions. It starts
first. The other two begin inside this
one; they both terminate, outside
it. BIRTH.
Meter
of the eudokian 'nest', starting at its verse 5, the 106th syllable: 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 + 49 + 7 + 12 = 215, but
1st 'pair' of
bookends are between (years)
syllables 105
and 231 = 126, sum of 70+56, 18 sevens or 42 threes!
2nd 'pair', overlapping between syllables 215 and
231, ending at 320, 15 sevens, 35 threes!
33 sevens! The Lord's Age
when He died!
Centered on,
the middle 'bookend' in verse 9! Yeah,
double-delight, of Father and Son!
77
threes! 70 x 7 x 3 fulfilled from first
David to Last!
Same 231 syllables, as
in Daniel 9:24-27! (See http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf)
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Assets in this
nested triune anaphora are bulleted by prepositional or articular
'heralds': Asset 'paragraphs' of
Sonship. Greek asset titles are shaded:
eivj e;painon do,xhj th/j ca,ritoj auvtou/ 133
evn w-| e;comen th.n avpolu,trwsin 157
dia ... th.n a;fesin tw/n paraptwma,twn 175
evn pa,sh| sofi,a| kai. fronh,sei 205
gnwri,saj h`mi/n to. musth,rion 215
h]n proe,qeto evn auvtw/| 238
eivj oivkonomi,an tou/ plhrw,matoj tw/n kairw/n 252
evn w-| kai. evklhrw,qhmen 291 proorisqe,ntej
kata. pro,qesin 301
1. First Asset
Class, v.6's eis epainon doxzes tes charitos
autou. So the SONSHIP (second clause verse 5, which
kicks off the epainon anaphora) .. is
to Glorify the Son.
The Trinity epainon (see Outline) begins another, nested anaphora benchmarked in v.6; next,
in first clause in v.12; finally, in last (hushed drama?)
clause in v.14, by the Spirit Who does it all. So this is a nest within a nest, overlapping again, in
the middle! Meter of epainon
anaphora: 334-133, 67 threes; 434-320, 38 threes, =
105 threes or 45 sevens, = syllables in Daniel 9:14 through 19. (See Note F in http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF.) The 38
threes also = God's
Meter in Daniel 9:25-26.
Now
the plot thickens. 105
threes = Daniel
9:14-19, WITH an elided 7; OR 365
syllables, WITH elided 57.
Alone, it runs 308
syllables. So Paul's epainon 'replies' to Daniel
9:14-19 on all three levels: this life is
like an Ark. Pregnancy.
o
Eph1:6
starts the epainon;
to translate it 'praise of His Glory', is fuzzy. Phrase means His Glory is REFLECTED IN
whatever or whomever IS that praise. An angel is glorious by nature: reflecting, Angel of the
Lord. But we are to be Higher than angels, Hebrews 2.
Like Him, 1John2:26-3:2,
Eph4:13. Sea of glass, Rev 4 and 1Cor13:12.
o
In
Eph1:12, the next epainon
use, we learn that
'praise', is US. Meaning, we will REFLECT CHRIST (prior bullet).
o
In
Eph1:14 the epainon
anaphora completes, and we learn the Holy Spirit makes us INTO His Glory. THE Glory.
Shekinah Glory,
10th priestly course name, 2nd week of Chislev, which in some years = the
Lord's Birthday on Chanukah aka Christmas (especially since Pope
Gregory cut 10 days out of the Julian calendar).
o
Now
tie back to Daniel and Temple. He prayed Temple be
rebuilt. It was. But Temple=Christ
was Rejected when He came, Man of Sorrows still By His Hand Succeeding at
the Cross, paying for l'rabbim, the people. So would the Temple Get His
Promised Time, or would Time END? 62nd
week hadn't yet completed!
o
Enter,
Church. Paul's metrical theme is 4 'quarters' of
91 each: # of
sabbatical years in 490 + # of Jubilees in 1050, inter alia. Sets up 2-walls analogy in Eph2.
[See p.15 of http://www.brainout.net/TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc.] Thus Paul ties epainon to Daniel at 365 syllables, by leaving 50 (rather than 57) in ellipsis, for Harvesting the
Gentiles. Ties to,
Flood's 'Year'. Precedence:
57 days after his birthday, God told Noah to leave, Gen
8:13-14.
o
Next,
with a 7 ellipsis, Daniel 9:14-19 = 315 syllables = the epainon, with no
ellipsis. Idea: Church is PREGNANT
with the Tribulation owed the Jews. Again, idea that if Church doesn't give birth to Time's completion
(Romans 8:11ff, Eph1:10,
Hebrews 11:39-40, Gal4:4, 19),
Time will ABORT. Scholars know Paul loves pregnancy
analogies; this is another one, via
meter.
o
Finally,
sans ellipsis, Dan9:14-19 runs 308 syllables,
# days Noah was in Ark until age 601 (LXX text, not Hebrew). Equals the epainon WITH 7 in ellipsis (315-7). Church is not in the Trib, see. And the 7
syllables @301-308 in Eph 1:11, textually tie to Rom 8:28,
another pregnancy chapter: God working all things together. So we LEAVE the Ark (Rapture, end Romans 8) so Trib can be delivered. Typical Bible wit; here, in the meter!
So just as Daniel's prayer completed
Time so Church could be born from He Who
Had No Descendants, Church Bride Body of Christ will complete its 'Year'
so that Israel can be reborn in Ezekiel 37, at the Second Advent. (Nerd note: Ezekiel 37 graphically
depicts resurrection of the PEOPLE of
Israel, including all OT believers . So it never refers to a current political
entity.)
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2. Second Asset
Class, v.7's
ten
apolutrwsin, a continuing thing, not merely salvation: see verse
7's note on apolutrwsin.
3. Third Asset
Class, v.7's
ten
aphesin, so you CAN name your sins to God. No more animals, 2Peter 1:9 (in Greek, translators forgot
to translate labwn, lol); Hebrews 10. Idea? Forgiveness In Time --so you can GROW UP spiritually, not
merely be saved as a newborn -- is FUNDED. See verse 7's Note on aphesin.
4. Fourth Asset
Class, v.8's
sophia
kai phronesei. (No
articles, so hyphenated, hendiadys).
See verse 8's Note.
5.
Fifth Asset Class, v.9's to
musterion. See Verse 9's Note.
The 'eat', Temple Shewbread, and
Firstfruits are themselves a third anaphora, a
Temple Trio
of proetheto (v.9), prothesin (here in v.11, covered in the
Second Clause, above); and proelpikotas (v.12). Proetheto begins just after the second
eudokian clause ended. So we begin its 'count', at syllable 231.
o
From proetheto to prothesin, 301-231 = 70 syllables. Voting!
o
From prothesin to proelpikotas, 343-301, 42 syllables. Generation Building!
o Note how text matches the
meter meaning. Sum is 112 =
56 x 2, aka 16 sevens. [Isaiah
paired 56's in Isaiah 53:1+2, 5+6 to cover Manasseh and Temple Down, see 2Kings 24;
Daniel tracks Isaiah's chronology, so paired 58's (to stress lateness),
Dan9:11+12 (on time of Manasseh, reason for Temple
Down). God paired 57's to show
timeline of 2nd Temple going down, Dan9:25+26. So Paul uses paired 56's! Of course that means Church will go down,
too. But at that point, it will still be
completed, DUE TO the proelpikotas being completed!]
o So the Trio 'replies' to Daniel 9:25+26
= 114 syllables, since your 57th year begins piggybacked on your 56th
birthday: Time won't complete to Millennium if Church isn't made into
Shewbread from THE Shewbread, as that's the Plan. This is the point of Paul's meter, why he
first datelines with 56 and why verses 3 through 14 sum at 434 syllables, same
as Daniel 9:4-13.
o Continuity of Vote Critical. And, that Church Vote
will always be short. Hence the few, the
proelpikotas, will be what completes Church. The bulk of Christians will quit the
spiritual life, just as Israel quit hers. History has sure borne that out. We thump Bible, and never learn it. Not in the first century, nor in this one.
o Flipside: Your
Vote Counts. Just like
Noah's. Vote well, the world
depends on it. Just like for
Noah.
Hence Isaiah 53:10 realized,
end verse 14: due to Him, we are
birthed; we thus become prothesin; so, we are proelpikotas, ourselves
made an ASSET IN CHRIST, birthed by the Holy Spirit.
The
next two asset classes are related to
the Angelic Conflict, wrapping up all history.
6. Sixth Asset
Class, v.10's
eis
oikonomian. See verse 10's note. God's Good Pleasure was to stick Church in
the middle of Daniel 9:26 (62nd week, Paul's metrical theme) so to complete the
Estate Management of Time (Eph1:10's text, which is in the middle of the 2nd
and 3rd eudokian clause -- the last one substitutes boulen, else
same thelematos autou). No
wonder it's 14 syllables, and stands alone!
7.
Seventh Asset Class, v.11's en oi kai
eklerothemen.. prothesin -- nota bene,
context is the TRIAL WRAP UP, not just a salvation inheritance! Then comes the close of this nest,
concatenated as kata ten boulen tou thelematos autou. Paul switches to boulen, to tie in
the eternity-past contract between Father and Son, Isaiah 53:10. Thus wrapping up, All Time.
At which
point, we become an asset OF Christ, proelpikotas, verse 12. So now you know why verse 12 only has two
clauses, both of which are bookends: the
final, unbelievably dramatic epainon of His Very Own Glory; and hence, proelpikotas: first in line, first in time,
witnesses of Him.. in the Trial.
Notice this reverse order:
Daniel
9:4-13 is 'answered' by Temple Trio.
Daniel
9:14-19 is 'answered' by the epainon anaphora,
Daniel
9:24-27 is 'answered' by the eudokian anaphora.
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First Clause: This is the second 'bookend' in the
epainon anaphora.
First bookend in first clause of v.6, was eis epainon doxzes tes
charitos autou.
Now, the text is: eis to einai hemas eis epainon doxzes
autou.
Now, if you said 'Give me Christ or give me death',
you replaced 'liberty' with Christ; you
would make someone smile, if they knew the original Patrick Henry quote. Paul makes this same 'substitution' (to make
a witty and important point). The bolded
words
(tes
charitos)
are substituted, exchanged, with eis to
einai hemas. The exchange denotes how the replaced
words are fulfilled. By what God
does TO us. Notice carefully that Paul FRONTS the epainon phrase, this
time. That sets you up for proelpikotas,
in the second clause!
This expression is very strong, as there's no 'tes'
fronting 'doxzes'. It means Divine-Level
Glory. Same as God's Own. It literally says we are being made into His OWN
Glory. Christ's. Totally shocking. We first met this anaphora back in verse 6, so you might want to review the Note there,
as well as the above link. Next stop
will be verse 14.
First
in Line, First in Time, Last is First,
proelpikotas
the
final keyword in our third nested anaphora, TempleTrio.
Second Clause: this is the final and climactic bookend in the Temple Trio anaphora. Greek proelpikotas is a
distinct reference to FirstFruits. Sum of preposition 'pro', meaning before, early, prior, first; + 'elpikotas', from 'elpizw', meaning to hope.
So it comes to mean the first group to
believe in Christ post-Incarnation and Cross; but the larger wordplay is on
those who advance to the front lines in this Angelic Trial. Root idea here
is that some crops mature early. So,
they are 'first', but of course maturation can rot, too. So 'first'
doesn't have our sin-nature preening baggage, in it. True, some of us are more mature, or mature
earlier or more than others. But ALL the
crop is to be harvested, and anyone can rot quickly. Just do a bit of vegetable gardening, and
you'll know that fact, well.
The first 'crop' has
smaller mature fruits, too. So
the first crop of itself, isn't valuable for itself, but for what comes
AFTER itself; and that's Paul's stress, in verse 14. So he knew the Rapture wasn't gonna happen
soon. Could and should, but people
wouldn't finish the course. God said, you
dedicate the first year's crops, to Him.
Thus they grow much bigger, year aka generation, five and six. [Compare Lev 19:23-25, 25:3-4, 21-22. Verse 19:24 uses ainetos, cognate of
ainos, from which comes epainos.] In other words, YOU DON'T WORK. God does.
You study. HE makes the fruit. Then the harvest is BIGGER than if you
tilled the soil, yourself.
So proelpikotas is First In Time, First in Line -- but
at the end, not necessarily better: though the first, thus had more privilege
and responsibility. The generation
which saw Him in the Flesh has more blame, if it says 'no' to Him. The believer who advances to the front lines
has more responsibility if he fails, than the spiritual brats still wailing
behind with the combat-baggage train.
Proelpikotas is the third Temple keyword Paul uses,
articular participle. First was proetheto, verse 9's note; then, prothesin, verse 11's note. Paul
uses them like bookends. See the flow, how Isaiah 53:12 gets done:
o
Spiritual Assets
set forth like a Meal from Christ (proetheto)
o
which constitute
God's Temple Shewbread Plan (prothesin),
o resulting in us as Firstfruits (proelpikotas).
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Hebrew Firstfruits is usually misunderstood. Harvest time
began on Firstfruits (Deut 16:9), so your first handful of harvest was waved before
the Lord as an acknowledgement, to commemorate entry into the Land of Promise,
Lev 23:9-21. It was also tax time, so
you gathered your harvest, paid your taxes; on the 50th day following (counting from LAST day of Passover, not the first one,
Numbers 28:26, Exo 23:16), you'd enjoy a day off, on God (Leviticus 23:15). This harvest celebration reminded Israel of Messiah's Advent.. the Second Time,
after Harvesting the Gentiles (converting
them to Judaism).
So now we Church, living in the shoulda-woulda-coulda 50-year period during
which we were supposed to become Jews (the gap period in Daniel 9:26) --
we are instead the Harvesters; Jews alive and believing in
Christ between Pentecost 30AD and Rapture, become part of us. Returning the Favor, for if the Jews
hadn't rejected Christ, you and I would never exist! That's Paul's analogy, playing on Romans
9-11. I wrote about that irony at
length, here: http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm#Sum.
The Romans of Paul's day were notoriously
anti-semitic. So when Paul pens Romans,
he chides them for it, sotto-voce.
First he sets up the value of the Law versus the goyim, to get
the Jews nodding at how bad the goyim were; then (Romans
2) he accuses the legalists (Jews) of not realizing the purpose of the Law, to See Christ. Then he turns on the goyim who prided
themselves on replacing the Jews.
(Beginning in Romans 9. Replacement
Theology has a pre-Catholic origin, in Rome.) All the while, Paul advances
our Position in Christ, versus our position in the Law, or our position without
the Law. Very deft weaving. [Took my
pastor four years to exegete and teach Romans, daily.]
So Paul takes advantage of their knowledge back then (which we don't have now), of the
Scheduled Millennium due under the Law, predicted ever since Psalm 90,
o
circa 'our'
94AD.
o
Okay, then 1000
years later, it ENDS.
o
Next, tack on the
final Jubilee, 50 years, and you have
o
ALL TIME ENDING
in 1144AD.
Um, it's now 2011.
We shouldn't be here. Yet we
have the same preening problem as Israel's when she displaced the goyim,
prompting Moses to warn them in Deuteronomy 6, 9, 30 (passim): don't get
fat-headed just because you displace people in the Land God gave you. He will displace YOU just as fast. Paul too warns, threaded in Romans 9-11: God will not abandon the Jews. It's God's Promise, so God will keep it. Don't get fat-headed since you got grafted
in.
So of course when the Rapture
didn't occur by 94 AD, Christians became disgruntled, having never paid
attention to what Paul meant, here: church must mature first. So, we didn't. So, we've been fat-headed for 2000 years; our
anti-semitic, preterist and replacement theology taught and believed, by 90% of
Christendom. No wonder the Rapture
hasn't happened, yet.
No one who believes an anti-semitic doctrine, ever
matures. Even if he doesn't think of
himself as anti-semitic. So all those
'Church Fathers' and Calvinists never grew up.
They made good peasants, sometimes.
But they never learned to Think like Christ, since they rejected the
very Promise To Christ that is Jewish.
So, in effect they lived their lives rejecting Him, and fancied that
they honored Him. Surely they meant
well. But sincerity can't buy a cup of coffee.
Only Divine Money, can buy divine maturation. And any doctrine against the Jews, is never
Divine.
Even so, we are to be the FirstFruits
graft through which a Harvested Israel gets in, during Church. It's the Wifely thing to do.
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Clause: xxx
Second
Clause: xxx
Third
Clause: xxx
Fourth Clause: xxx
Fifth Clause: xxx
Sixth Clause: xxx
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Clause: xxx
Second
Clause: xxx
Third
Clause: eis is
a preposition of destination. So you are
'going' somewhere, legally. INTO
Redemption. In other words, you have a legal
status that at the moment, is not realized.
This is like getting a notice that you were bequeathed a huge
parcel of extremely valuable foreign real estate, but you haven't yet
traveled to it, to register the property.
It's yours, you can't lose it, no one else can get it, either; but you've not yet gone there. So Redemption is something you have, but it's
in the Universal Bank of Heaven, and you have to die before you collect ALL
that money.
So
that's why the First Clause said 'ho estin arrabon': you get a downpayment on that account while living
yet in this body, and the Spirit is that Surety. Real assets you really live on, and all your
life is based on what you are in christ. But, not all the wealth is useable
immediately. That's the point.
So Greek eis
comes to mean purpose or result, cause or effect. Sometimes in Scripture, instead of the
typical en tou kuriou, or epi ton kurion, it says eis ton
kurion -- the latter construction stresses an end-of-the-journey,
destination-of-life, meaning. It stresses
even more, your position in Christ as a result:
shorthand for eternal security.
[That's the meaning
here: if you are PUT into 'Christ', how
can you get out? You didn't put yourself
into Him, did you? So how can you get
out? Can you fly up to heaven --
assuming you could even FIND it -- then find your 'location' in Christ, in
order to leave it? See how nifty a
preposition, eis is? INTO but no OUT OF. You not only didn't put yourself 'into
Christ'.. you can't even find His location, and you sure as heck can't GO
there!]
When
chained, eis denotes the relationship between purpose and result,
cause and effect. So here it should be translated 'resulting
from', not 'into'. But I lacked meter 'space'. Paul
frequently uses eis chaining to track results FROM something then resulting IN something, as in Romans
10:10. [See the last 3 of
my Romans 10:10 'eis chaining' videos in Youtube, which display eis chaining in the NT. Those videos show Romans 10:10 is misused by
Christendom to claim you must SAY ALOUD you believe in Christ to be saved. Au contraire, the first eis is
the CAUSE of your salvation, believing;
so as a RESULT, you SAY you believe.]
Eis chaining is
a major feature of this passage, the eis clauses divide his
meter. Sometimes Paul chains eis clauses in
reverse, but typically he does it chronologically, as here. So, Resulting FROM Christ paying, then
resulting IN Spirit Glorifying Him, in this context. Double-entendre of the Spirit being Glorified
by means of Glorifying Christ. However,
verses 6, 12 and 14 stress the Glorification of Christ, first.
Really important to notice
that, here. Father isn't glorifying
Christ to glorify Himself, but to answer John 17. Christ prayed that Father glorify Him, since
Christ wanted to glorify Father. Spirit
glorifies Christ. That They are Each
glorified Themselves as a consequence, is important juridically (God should not
be cheated), but it's of secondary interest to Them. Of Primary Interest, is the Other One: Father to Son, Son; Spirit to Son, Son. Son to Father, Father. Son to Spirit, Spirit.
Many denominations get
tangled up over how to regard the Trinity.
Bible stresses the Son. Because,
Bible's ordained by FATHER, and SPIRIT
runs it in your head. So THEY focus on
Christ. So we should also. Now, here's the irony: once you focus on
Christ, everything becomes 'for Father, or forget it.' Because, that's how He thinks. So, that's how you'll think.. eventually. [We humans deem respect and worship by means of
shallow observances, protocols, etc. But
when you really love someone, you don't think that way. The person is just 'there' in your mind, all
the time: First Commandment (smile
here). So that's true worship, John
4:23-24. Then, any observances you
adopt, become truly spiritual. Else,
they are motions absent meaning, and frankly become derogatory.]
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Fifth Clause: This is the climactic last bookend in the epainon anaphora.
We
saw back in verse 6, eis epainon doxzes tes charitos autou.
The bold text exchanged in verse 12: eis to einai hemas eis
epainon doxzes autou.
Now, here we see it changed to eis epainon tes doxzes autou.
This third exchange -- replacing eis to
einai hemas in verse 12 with
tes doxzes -- completes the definition of 'Glory'.
o Verse 6, defined as 'Grace'.
o Verse 12, exchanged with Us -- which obviously can only happen as an Act
of Divine Grace. So
o Verse 14, The Holy Spirit makes us into THE = tes Glory. As in, Shekinah Glory. Which, the Holy Spirit was and remains,
Isaiah 63:10-14. Get the pun?
Kill me now.
PS: I have to retranslate this clause to take into account the double-entendre mentioned above. I don't know how best to do that, yet.
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a Paul
also uses 10- and 11-syllable clauses characteristic of classical Greek
epic/heroic verse, so it was easy to divide the clauses. I've not yet analyzed further what Greek
versification he uses. Like the later
writer in Hebrews 11, Eph 1:3-14 is a mix of Hebrew meter and Greek epic style.
LXX of Isaiah 53 employs a similar style.
So maybe the writer of Hebrews, who frequently points back to this
passage, chose to ape its meter in Hebrews 11:1, since the passage here is also
about voting as the Trial Matter
that completes Church (Eph 1:10). Whole
books of Ephesians and Hebrews are on the same topic, written about 10 years
apart.
b Participle. Can be translated as a finite verb. For eulogesas in verse 3, and gnorisas in verse 6, I chose a
hybrid translation, to show the
progressive stress of the participle.
Verbal aspect in Greek often gives rise to a different English
translated tense. Here, aorist in Greek
gives rise to present tense in English, for both pre-Time but also normative
and constantly occurring; compare
with present participle energountos
in verse 11, last clause; I translated
it as a simple present. Better to translate energountos
as progressive also, as Paul links by repeating the same form
of a verb, same preposition, etc;
but I didn't have enough meter 'space', in verse 11. Paul reminds the reader of Romans 8:28. Stresses that what was purposed pre-Time,
comes to pass and remain, IN Time.
See also Isaiah 55.
By contrast, proorisas in verse 5, an aorist participle, I
translated as pluperfect. Participle
heads (as here) often denote a past action upon which a present state
depends. Idea of cause. A participle often fronts a verse; but for stress might end it. Here, since en agapei is an
enjambment, and given the fact it refers to God's Attribute of Love as well as
a moniker for Christ, the FOUNDING idea
inherent in proorisas would best be shown as a pluperfect, not a mere
perfect tense; especially, since the actual tense is aorist,
point-of-time-divorced-from-time; namely, eternity past.
c 'Enjambment': Attic rhetorical device that appends the beginning of the next line at the end of the
previous line of verse, to stress the appended word/phrase. Bible translators recognized it when they
assigned en agapei to the end of
verse 4; syntactically it begins verse 5. This piggybacking is a central
characteristic of Mosaic Law teaching that one thing begins backed on another's
end: stresses that things have interlinked purpose and consequences.
d Greek echw means To Grasp, so comes to mean Hold and therefore Have. It's a progressive idea. Something you keep on holding,
having, as your own possession, so you have the rights to USE it. So too, Greek apolutrwsin is
always progressive, idea of receiving payment made on your behalf. Redemption is first a price paid to God for
your salvation, by Christ. But after
that, what does Father do with the money?
He spends it on you to glorify Christ.
So Redemption is an asset you USE, because Father made
you yourself, an asset of Christ, the 'booty' clause in Isaiah 53:12.
See especially how Paul links apolutrwsin in verses 7 and 14, to
show these are PRIVILEGES to use post-salvation, due to the fact that we ARE
redeemed now, as a DOWNPAYMENT (arrabon,
see End Notes l and m). Eternal
security, baby.
Yeah, but we're still down here.
So notice: when you get an inheritance, you don't necessarily get it all
at once. You might get some immediately,
and the rest is conditioned upon certain events. Example: a trust fund is set up giving you
$10,000 now, and if you're disabled, $20,000.
Then, when certain other events occur, you can draw on the funds. So that's what our salvation is: certain funds are upfront, money provided to
USE, and in the event of certain contingencies, we get other funds. One of these, concerns the forgiveness of
sins aka 'debt cancellation'.
Sin is something you still do post-salvation, and it
incurs a debt of punishment, even though your sins were paid; for the child of
God must be punished, to grow into the use of his inheritance, theme of
Hebrews 12:5ff. Okay, that money is
on deposit via the Cross. But if you don't use 1John1:9, you
don't get the benefit of a) debt cancellation, and b) the remedial 'cost' of
repairing the damage done to your own soul by that sin. My pastor spent months explaining this, in
his "Law of Double Punishment" series, how not using 1John 1:9
"is worse than sin." Why? Because you're refusing REPAIR by the Holy
Spirit. So, you'll get worse,
and maybe die like Ananias (Acts 5), called 'the sin face to face with death',
in 1John5:16. Hell sounds better!
So
notice: redemption is progressive.
There's always some loss to redeem, always some expense involved in
growing, and Christ paid it all IN ADVANCE.
But it won't be used on you, unless the right conditions apply, i.e., if
you're in a state of sin the spiritual assets stay locked away, since only the
Holy Spirit can build you, and He won't fill a defiled Temple (your soul, when
in a state of sin). Hence the need to use one of the other assets you
have, the sine qua non of spiritual growth, 1John1:9.
People constantly tell me how smart I
am. Well, 1John1:9 is the reason. My pastor harped on it so much, I even use it
in my dreams.
So
we keep on having Christ's payment, in
order to USE it. So, Yes
You Name Your Sins To God Like John Did, Like David Did, else the assets Christ
PAID lie fallow, hidden under your self-righteous 'napkin'!
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e Close to my pastor's
translation from L.293 of his '85 Ephesians, p.638 of Book B notes. Greek oikonomia means estate management, or someone with that office; pleroma is a culturally-loaded, Greek myth & drama term
for a container (i.e.,
a ship, woman) filled up with things (or people). Paul uses it as a moniker for Church, as
'Body' of Christ (wordplay
on Bride and Pregnancy).
f Usually translated 'plan', Greek prothesin really means Temple shewbread: idea that you had to PLAN
baking and presentation, as you'll see explained in any lexicon (i.e., Thayer's, BDAG). So it should be translated more clearly as
'shewbread' so you know what kind of 'plan' is in view. For this is a reference to Firstfruits Presentation, see Numbers 28, Lev23:15. Christ is
Firstfruits, we are part of Him: so it's God's Plan, to make us INTO Him. See Verse Notes 9, 11, and 12.
Greek prothesin is the key to understanding Ephesians' Two
Walls, and why Paul invokes Daniel 9's prayer, which Paul actually prays in response to this doxology, Eph
1:15-23. My pastor calls that 'the
unfinished prayer', as it is open-ended (Temple=Body not finished, pending Eph4:13's completion
which triggers the Rapture); compared to, the per-individual prayer in Eph
3:15-19, which he finished. Daniel
was praying before he got an answer.
Paul is praying after the answer.
For The Answer To Daniel, Is Christ; and Paul is After 'The Answer',
Answered History.
g Greek musterion means information known inside a
group that is unknown outside of it. So
the English word 'mystery' is an unfortunate translation. God is not mysterious. God's Will is not mysterious. God's Word is not hard to know, either. Bring your willingness to learn. God will enable you to undergo the discipline
of learning. So: you don't know Him or
His Will -- and you MUST know, it's an imperative, Romans 12:1-3 -- you won't dokimazw
His Will if you don't know His Word. [Romans
12:1-3 is mistranslated. See http://www.brainout.net/Rom121-3.htm.]
Hence
Paul's point here in v.9, God Makes Known. Thus anyone piously calling God inscrutable,
refuses to learn Him. Anyone who says
'His Mysterious Will', a favorite phrase of John Calvin's -- well, God's Will IS a mystery to THEM,
because THEY won't study Him. They study
their own self-righteous appearance, their holy language, their pious behavior
-- and of course the behavior of others is picked apart. Minutely.
But they don't study God. For as
Paul says right here -- echoed in Hebrews 11:6, James1, many places -- God
makes known -- but not, to the self-righteous. To them, He will always be inscrutable. They ASSume knowing God, is arrogance. They imagine they are holy if they call God
too 'deep' to know. Really? Then how can you obey Him? And since Christ knew God better than anyone,
guess what arrogance really is?
h First occurrence of eudokian is
followed by a consonantal sound. The
second time, it's followed immediately and in the same clause, by autou. So in the latter instance, the ia
diphthong would be individually sounded, whereas the first time, it would be a
'yan' sound, in order to ready the mouth to pronounce the next consonant after
the n (tou). So elision occurs in
the first instance in verse 5, but not in the second instance, verse 9. The acute accent isn't really stress, but a
quick up-voice like the second tone in Mandarin Chinese.
K Wordplay:
Spirit rebirths you, so you get a
human spirit, Titus 3:5, and are thus kaine
ktsis, 2Cor5:17. Notice how
it's a result of believing,
immediate. Notice also that 398 is almost
57 sevens. Paul returns to this theme in
Eph 5. 'Seal' in the ancient world: finger-ring
on hot wax 'sealed' a scroll attesting ownership of property listed on the
scroll, or commitment to whatever contractual obligations were in that scroll. Related: Revelation 4 Ownership of the World Scroll
Opening Ceremony (see also next note).
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L 'Redemption
of The Possession' is our technical status. Christ is The
Owner, not us. So due to the Christ inheriting us, we 'share' in Him: only
in that sense are we 'elected'.
Hence Paul's continual use of en and eis. In Him, into Him, into a destination,
resulting in an inheritance due TO being IN Him. We are
the Possession Of Christ, Isaiah 53:12; so His LEGACY to us, is His Own
Spiritual Asset Portfolio, theme of Book of Hebrews.
[My pastor spent
seven whopping years exegeting Ephesians 7x per week, redoing the exegesis of Chapter 1 three times
during the first year he re-taught it (in 1985, starting with the
"Protocol Plan of God" series, the segue into 1985 Ephesians)
-- to keep on making this point about
spiritual assets. This is what
distinguishes Church, and makes her covenant higher than all the others before
or after Church, he'd frequently say, when reminding us of the lexeme in
Eph 3:21. It was the main theme of his
teaching for those seven years, and he was so impressed by Ephesians 1, he
wanted to throw out all he taught prior.
So he afterwards stressed the "portfolio of invisible
assets" for long as he lived.]
So CHRIST ALONE is the Elected One,
and "we share in all He is and has" as a result.
[Quote is my pastor's.
I don't
recall that he tied it to Isaiah 53, but notice Greek verb merizw in Isaiah 53:12 LXX (compare to yehalleq shalal in
Hebrew). Paul uses this verb and its
cognate noun meros to show we thus
inherit Christ's THINKING in Ephesians 4:16 and Romans 12:1-3. I wrote webpages on both passages, Eph41216.htm and Rom121-3.htm .]
Precedence: Israel was grafted in through David. We are grafted in through the Last David due
to His own Pre-Cross election of Church, Matt16:18, John 17, Romans 11. He is the seed,
Galatians 3:16, tying to Isaiah 53:10.
So we are never elected based on ourselves, but based on HIM. Calvin never grasped this, hence the weird
Calvinist definition of unconditional
election has plagued Christianity for centuries, Calvin removing both
free will and God's Foreknowledge; all this, just to remove any claim of merit. Ergo, Calvinism's lapsarianism is hopelessly
anthropocentric, convoluted; so you don't see the Primacy of Christ. Bible bluntly says no one BUT Christ was ever
elected, hence the NT catchphrase "in Him", here in Eph1: see Romans 6 and 8, how we are all
baptised into Him on the Cross, just as Isaiah 52:13-15, 53:10-11
promised. So yes, we are elected -- but In
In In In In .. Him.
M Because we are HIS
Possession, the Redemption money
(so to speak) gets spent on us. Notice
this spending glorifies Christ (verse 12).
So if you don't use your Redemption assets (i.e., you instead do works),
the money won't be spent on you, and the talent you instead hid away in a
napkin (not using Divine Assets but rather your own) -- will be given to
someone else at the 1Cor3 Bema.
N Greek article is masculine singular, and the referent
masculine singular is 'in Whom', clause ending at syllable 379. So 'Who' means Christ, but validated by
the Holy Spirit; the Agent in verses
13-14 changed. Notice the intertwined
equating:
o Verses 3-6, Father, ending
with Father's Glorification which HE accomplishes via Church (syllable 1-133);
o Verses 6-12, Christ, ending
with Christ's Glorification which HE accomplishes via Church (syllable 134-343);
o Verses 13-14, the Spirit,
ending with Spirit's Glorification, which HE accomplishes via Church (syllable 343-434, how
clever).
The 91 for the Spirit does NOT factor until '91', signifying
that no voting counts unless HE makes it work.
So much for man's idea that his own works count for anything!
Wordplay, again, on the
Inheritor becoming our inheritance --
and hence the Earnest [Money] of it -- because we are in Him. Further, Greek arrabon
is also masculine singular, so the article is also pointing forward, and arrabon is anarthrous, so English 'THE'
is used to signify it's Him, the First Fruits. (See also Rom8:23; 11:16; 1 Cor15:20, 23; 16:15;
2Thess2:13; 2Tim2:6; Jas1:18; 3:17; Rev14:4.
Book of Hebrews will stress FirstFruits
downpayment as Christ, Heb 6:20, 9:11-16, 10:9,14, 12:23 as a running
subtheme.) Cf 'the Lord is my portion' Ps16:5; 119:57; 142:5;
Lam3:24. Paul's invoking these
well-established-in-Mosaic-Law definitions.
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Meter deliberately conveys symbolism to enhance one's
doctrinal grasp of explicit text. Bible
Hebrew Meter is crafted in a pattern of sevens.
The syllables of each 'paragraph' will be divisible by seven, and will
be doctrinally significant. Yet meter is also used
o
as the author's dateline (when a passage is written);
o
to provide chronologies
(i.e., of Israel's past or future);
o
to 'tag'
(cross-reference) another Bible passage of similar meter;
o
to 'tag' and then 'talk back to', interpret a
specific syllable location in the other passage(s).
o
'Tag' multiple
passages at once in the SAME PLACE,
so is a very deft concordance mechanism.
o
We know Bible
writers do that with keywords. We don't
know they do that with METER.
o
So here,
you'll get a taste of how Paul does it with meter.
o
In the Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc
link at the top of page 1, you have an extensive listing of how Daniel
did it in his prayer.
o
So compare this
document with that one's Footnote E (which runs over a dozen pages), to see
this rhetorical meter style is rather
well formulated, being as Paul lived in the first century AD, but Daniel, 600
years prior.
o
Isaiah does the same thing in his Chapter 53 playing
on Moses' Psalm 90, see my Psalm 90 Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLFF2856603C945631
.
o
Upshot: if these Bible 'stars' play thus with meter, there
must be hundreds of passages using it.
Detecting such passages would be invaluable to hermeneutics and textual
criticism.
o
And it's not hard
to do. Painstaking, maybe: but even a
brainout can do it. So what follows will
seem dry, a listing of tagged verses relative to the symbolic numbers.
o
To see the
'tagging' function, compare same syllable or metered 'paragraph' content of the verses listed with the content in the parallel Ephesians verse. This document
notes many examples, passim. The
style is antiphonal, witty and
precise. Very shocking.
Ready?
Take a deep breath...
A 56 = central # (70-14) in Psalm 90 (v7-9, 9-10,13-15,
16-17) & Isa53 (v1-2, 5-6, sum of v.9 & 11).
o
56 is Paul's Anno Domini dateline,
see verse 4's note.
It's really the Christ's 57th birthday, or just before, after. (Your
birthday occurs when your old age has elapsed). [If
Paul wrote just after imprisonment in Jerusalem, 56 fits;
Tychicus could bring it later, the postscript
ending Ephesians, written then. See Roman Chronology problems. Eventually, this note will be replaced by a
full reconciliation.]
o
Paul picked that
dateline also due to the pan-Bible significance of 56, to wit:
o
57 was the number
of days Noah waited before entering and exiting the Ark (LXX's date-text, which Paul uses here, see also http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc); so that became precedence for the Mosaic Law.
o
So 57 is # of days from start of Passover to
Pentecost, see Num28:26.
o
Between
them is 56. The between-ness is stressed, idea that the final outcome CAN
CHANGE. It ain't over till it's over, Hebrews
4:6-10.
o
Same # of days
from Pentecost to 9th Av, per Bible's (not Judaism's) calendar.
o
Also = missed
sabbatical years from Rehoboam onward (49, not 70) + sabbatical years due ON them (7). Next page will cover this accounting in more
detail.
Ergo Daniel
waits until the start of the 49th year to pray, in Daniel
9. He records this in his meter. (V.4 is 49 syllables, so 48 had elapsed. You're IN your 49th year, first day of it,
on your 48th birthday.)
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o Ergo 49 (not 56) is refunded in Daniel 9:25. 49 thus has dual meaning Paul adroitly uses, from 2nd clause in verse
10, to end verse 11 = 49 syllables. The
double meaning? 49 years from Jubilee to Jubilee,
which always meant Harvesting the Gentiles, End of History. But also, 49 is the #
of missed sabbatical years, signifies Israel's apostasy, Diaspora.
See, if Israel obeyed her sabbatical years, that
49 wouldn't exist. But she didn't, so seven
extra sabbatical years were owed 'on' it, yet couldn't be paid.
That led to '56', the meter of Warning Bill Robinson, Trouble Ahead.
So how does the 49 or even 56, become 70? For a full accounting, see http://www.brainout.net/brainoutFAQ.htm#6a and #9 (p.15)
in http://www.brainout.net/TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc . When you load the FAQ page, search on
"Master Accountant", for how
the 49, became 70. #9 in TenWays, explains the relationship between 70
and 50.
Root concept: in the Mosaic
Law, you have 'restitution' or 'redemption' as a doubling, a mirroring. To repay a negative, two positives are
needed. Israel incurred negative
time. She didn't use her years as
stipulated; she was to study during sabbatical years, that's
why she got whole years of vacation, while the goyim in other
countries, sweated.
But the goyim
in Israel, rested. So you can just
imagine how many of them, voted with their feet! For the command was for the Land and
everything on it, animals included, to rest every seventh year, and every
Jubilee year. You realize, of course,
that year 49 is a seventh, and after that Jubilee, so for TWO WHOPPING YEARS no
one did any work. Atop that, you could
only harvest maybe every three years, which required a miraculous preservation
of food.
See: it was a
blatant advertisement that Israel's God, was the Real One. Only God
can keep the Land producing when man does nothing, just like in the Garden of Eden.
So to keep working, in effect denied
God's Provision: a witness failure. So
that failure, must be made up. However,
to make up time requires more time, so more sabbatical years are due on the
newly-elapsing time, as well.
So here, the 49 years do get made up,
but not the seven extra years due on them. So the
Tribulation, must occur. It can't be made up during Israel's time, yet
must be debited FROM her time. That's
why Daniel 9:27 is after Messiah, after the 50 years (in ellipsis)
symbolized by Jubilee, the 'time' to Harvest the Gentiles (elided from Daniel 9 tally, not part of the Jewish
490).
Ergo, Christ updated to 'times' (plural) of the Gentiles (Luke
21:24).
For the 'time' of Church, now intervenes.
So now
notice: had there been no Church, the 50th
year would KICK OFF the Tribulation. So the only difference WITH Church, is
that the '50th year' is no longer the deadline. Now, as we'll see in Ephesians 4:13,
the deadline becomes our Corporate Maturation. We can't even say how mature we each are. How much less, can we say when Church
Corporate, fully reflects Christ's Own Maturation? It's impossible!
See: 'Rapture'
is not a date, but a condition. Ripeness
of the Firstfruits. So those trying to date the Rapture --
drooling over events that always reflect Daniel 9:26c time-bubble, Eph1:3-14
-- those date-setters are ignorant of
Bible. So, ignore them.
Now do you get Paul's number pun, in
verse 10? Look: he makes the first clause stand on its
own, as a 14. Then he uses perhaps the longest word in
Greek, requiring him to begin a new clause, to keep meter. He then makes that word 'head' a 49-syllable
paragraph! [Paul's big on making 'head' wordplay. Look at 1Cor12:31 in Greek and laugh your
head off as you read 1Cor13.]
So notice: the 49 links Jewish Diaspora to
Harvesting the Gentiles, the
juridical impetus for Matt16:18 and hence, Church. Is that clever, or what? That's why the third '91' = 49 +7 + 35 (see
Note E). The metrical
composition underscores his verse 10 text that via Church, TIME WILL BE
COMPLETED. That's what meter is
supposed to do: cadence adds meaning to words, to form a fitted whole. Look:
91 - 7, is Moses' 84 syllables (Note C,
below). Divine Decree. The '7', is the extra hanging-chad of the Tribulation, as
Israel had used UP her Time; ergo,
Messiah had to come first to RESTORE Time.
POINT: Church completion 'buys' the juridical
justification for the Tribulation to occur, precisely because we ARE in Christ. Hebrews
11:39-40 will stress that.
See: the meter adds meaning to the text,
and is part of it. So miss the meter,
and you miss the meaning.
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B 77
= Hebrew syllables in Isa52:13-15,
Ps90:8-10, 10-13, 13-16; Luke 3, Christ
is 77th Son. 77 is also David's death
age, 1Kings 6:1 (but 'scholars' ignore it
in favor of Josephus). Isa53's total years (syllables) w/
ellipsis = 154 x 7 = 77 x 2 x 7; 252 years are elided between 52:15 & 53:1; 364,
between
53:10 & 53:11. 252 = years between David's
death & when Isaiah was called by God, same meter as Isaiah 1:1. 364 = Temple standing time. Daniel
tags both elisions in petition, Dan9:15-19, ergo '62 weeks' is granted (364 reimbursed, + Daniel
9:2 '70'). Daniel balances at '490' just as Moses and
Isaiah, yet Daniel won't use 77. Paul
however does: see verse 4's note and Pregnant Expectations section, for the
tallies.
C 84 = Hebrew syllables in Psalm 90:1-4's Opening Decree;
also sum of 90:4, 8, 9, 16, & 11-15.
Isaiah 53 splits it, two 42-syllable sections
as bookends. Daniel does the same, in
Daniel 9:14 and 17. The bookend
function is designed to stress that all the words between the bookends, are
related directly to God's Decree.
Paul uses the 84 explicitly in the last clause of Eph 1:4, but nowhere
else. He parcels out the 84 as 21's,
instead, each 21 within a 91.
D 21 = Hebrew syllables in Ps90:4, 8, 9, 16; Isa53:7 on
Christ led to the slaughter (1st 21
syllables, embedded). Temple building.
E 28 = Hebrew syllables of Isaiah 53:9, 11; Ps90:11-13 (palindrome). 133 is endpoint in Isa53:2 & Ps90:7. 175
is endpoint in Ps90:9. Isaiah debited 28
syllables from Chap. 53's syllable total, to show a shortfall in Israel's
voting that only could be fulfilled IN Christ.
Paul's use of 28 also plays on that.
The 28 = 21 + 7, number of years en toto to build 2nd Temple,
plus the 'hanging chad' of 7, which became the Tribulation to 'reimburse' the
Lord's then-upcoming, Passion Week. That
week being fulfilled by the Lord, the Tribulation is now due next; but it can't play until Church completes,
Hebrews 11:39-40. Thus the 28 remains a
shortfall, to be fulfilled by Father FOR Christ, via Church (see Eph 1:15-23,
esp. verse 23).
35 is a
derivative of 28, one half of 70. Idea that the voting during
the 70 'buys time' for the
Harvesting of the Gentiles. So if the
vote is short (indicated by 28), the Gentiles won't be harvested, and Time won't complete. Notice how the extra seven signifies
completeness. Moses uses it in Psalm 90:
10 for the completeness of the Flood; in verse 17, as a prayer that the voting
will complete during what would become the 2nd Temple's and Jerusalem's
(re)construction. Isaiah used it in
Isaiah 53:3 and 4, showing that the vote 'completed' Temple downfall; but in Isaiah 52:15 and 53:10, the payment
for the goyim is paralleled as part of the total 'contract' between
Father and His Hands, the Son:
again, the idea of Completing Time.
The Psalm 90 counterparts are only two: Psalm 90:10 and :17.
It's a running meter theme in Psalm 90, Isaiah 53 and here in Paul, Eph 1:12's last clause. Notice how Paul links believing in Christ, with the Voting To Complete Time that 35 signifies. There's no way to show that, unless you METER the translation! (35 is pointedly missing from Daniel 9, since he's tallying up the indictment of Israel being SHORT.)
F 63 = Hebrew
syllables in Isa53:10-11 or 9-10, & Ps90:1-3, 10-12, 14-16. Also = 147-84, Eph 1:5-6. 238 is
endpoint in Ps90:12.
G 14 = Hebrew syllables in Psalm 90:11: two Trib 7's of bad votes against God. Also, 252 is an endpoint in Psalm 90:13. 490 - (70-14) = 490 - 56 = 434 = Daniel
9:25's 62 weeks. Psalm 90, Isa53,
Dan9:25 and Eph1:3-14 all 'explain' that two Trib 7's have yet to play. Mene
mene tekel upharsin. It's THE reason
why Rapture is Pre-Trib: Israel didn't
finish her 'time' before going negative.
So '14' stands for an open, yet incomplete, Juridical Issue to be
resolved. Paul asserts in
Eph1:6's second and third clause, that it will be resolved to Glorify
Father. In verse 10, he asserts it will
wrap up history, and thus glorify Christ.
H Direct
reference to Isaiah 53:10's bouletai (haphetz in Hebrew), repeated
twice in LXX first for Father, then Son.
This is the climactic third in another meter-nested anaphora in verses 5, 9, and 11. See their Verse Notes, especially 11's.
I Verses 5, 6, 11 and
14, direct reference to Isaiah 53:12a, Christ INHERITS us. These
verses point with inheritance keywords, and are metered apart by groups of
seven. I don't yet know why. Text shows He inherits us, so we have
inheritance IN Him. So 'obtain' is a bad translation; klerow is aorist
passive, means to inherit by LOT: as a beneficiary class, or due to a law or
rule (i.e., someone's will, see Hebrews 9). HE is elected Heir, so we receive Election IN
Him. Bible says Only Christ Was Elected, i.e., 'in Christ' refrain in Ephesians
and passim; Isaiah 52:13 and 53:12, Colossians 1:16-18; so we are
elected only IN Him, Isa53:6, 10; we are
His booty, Isa53:12. You inherit a house.
So it 'inherits' your care, if you keep it.
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J =Jesus = Joined is Paul's Theme.
CHURCH BUYS TIME:
for Her KING OF KINGS, Sanctified Time.
Hence Paul adroitly employs a 91 meter: the sum of Israel's Sabbatical Voting years in a 560.
Their voting BOUGHT the
50-year 'goyim' voting period.*
Now watch this: 91 x 4 equals
what?
364!
And what's left over? 70, to equal Daniel 9:26's 434 aka 62 weeks!
And what's after that?
56!
To complete what?
TIME, signified by 490!
And what is
56+91+56+91?
294, the Human Gestation Period, 280+ 14!
Meaning? Pregnancy and Birth,
Paul's favorite theme in all his epistles!
So Paul neatly apes Psalm
90's one-and-four by making the 70 (representing
the Millennium) 'enclose' the first paired
91's.
o
Those first
two 91's are Christ's Own 'Pregnancy', Decreed in Eternity Past (verses 3-6);
then, Our Sins In Him in Time -- on the Cross (verses 7-9); we'll call that pair, Pregnancy 1.
o
The second
two 91's are Church Born and Constructed to Bridge Time
(verses 10b-14). We'll call that pair, Pregnancy 2.
Joining these two Pregnancies is Verse 10, 14 syllables: the summing-up-of-Trial-matters,
Church as the Fullness-of-Times
(lit.) Dispensation. Greek pleroma
means 'fullness' in the sense of a 'container'
(ship, woman) 'filled up' with cargo.
Divine Wit, for Paul models Ephesians after Euripides' play Ion,
long-famous to his Greek audience as the story of their founding!
Let's
examine Paul's four 91's, as 'the Year of Church'. Four Dimensions of a Building, too. This Time
Bridge Role has precedents: Noah in
the Ark,
the Exodus Plagues and First Temple Standing. For, they each had the same amount of time:
o
Noah was in the boat one year. But he comes out on the 365th day, so you can
rightly say that Noah was only IN
the boat for 364 days. (Paul uses LXX text for the count, not BHS.)
o
Same period as
the Exodus plagues would last.
o
Same number as the First Temple stood, 364 years.
o
Same number of sevens, between Flood and pre-Church
Schedule of Millennium's start, minus the hiatus (presaging His Arrest, Lamb Set Aside) in the Flood account, Genesis 8:12. [364*7 = 2548, - 3 = 4200 - 1655 when Flood began. 4200 and 1655 are Years from Adam's
Fall. The initial 57 dovetails with the
54 'credit' which both Noah and Abraham 'earned' by maturing early. So I have to do more analysis. Meanwhile, see http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls
on timeline, http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc
, for Flood. Again, Paul uses LXX not
BHS, in Genesis 7-8. Recall that Day
begins piggybacked on the Evening of the Day Prior, so in math you must add or
subtract one.]
o
Noah voted during the 70-year voting period from 1540-1610 from
Adam's fall (ending 2496 bc). So, his 70 was reimbursed. (As part of
Noah's Time covenant, the 490-year award which bought Time to Abraham, exactly.)
o
Moses voted during the
70-year period ending 2660 from Adam's Fall (1446
bc); that's why there could BE an Exodus.
o When Temple was rebuilt, its
70-year downtime (Daniel
9:2, Jeremiah 25:11) was reimbursed as part of the 62 weeks that Daniel
voted, via his own metered
prayer. (Dan9:1-13's sum is 434 syllables.
He asks for Temple Return in v.16 = 62 syllables.)
So what do Noah,
Exodus and Temple have in common, besides the
364
number?
All Time Future Depended On Their Successful Conclusion.
o
Noah 'carried' the whole human race in his
family, so to speak.
o Exodus 'carried' the progenitor
nation of Messiah, through Whom the whole human race would derive not just
eternal blessing, but the justification for even being born, on earth (since
Christ would pay for ALL sins);
o
Temple depicted that Messiah-to-Come, and if it
weren't standing, Time Would End. That's
what Daniel 9 is all about.
o
So by analogy, the 'Year
of Church' means All Time hinges on our Completion, just as Hebrews 11:39-40
says. Our 'year' ends with the Rapture; so like Noah,
Exodus, Temple (in reverse) -- the day of exit ends our
'year.' Whenever that is.
*[Math
proof is in page 15 of TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc
. Root Precedence: 91 = believer voting period (70) + number of 50's, in a 1050.]
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now what's the relationship of the 70, to the '364' of Church?
o
Notice the
Lord's age 56 (really His 57th birthday, end of the 56th year)
at the time Paul writes, standing outside the 91's,
o
even as the pivotal Eph 1:10's 14 for the Summation of the Trial.
o
Sum? 70! The Lord VOTED, and as a result, we can. For we are the 'goyim' bought by His
Voting, get it?
Isaiah 53:10-11's m'amal naph'sho
Joining
Application to Church
(Click here for Meter-map doc links to Psalm 90 etc. )
Pregnancy 1a, Ephesians 1:3-6,
Meter sum 147 = 21 sevens,
Temple Building for
Father
(first
'Glory' paragraph, see Outline.)
Meter Pattern for verses 3-6 = 56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14
o The Lord
being in with of God in eternity past, parallel to the Trinity statement in John 1, verse 3.
(Information John wrote was long known
prior. God had him write it out, for posterity.)
o But as we saw in verse 4 (click
here for its Note), beginning with its second clause, a '91' is nested, with the result
that there are 77 syllables through the end of
verse 6.
o So the palindromic pattern
is: 56 + 21 = 77, yet also 56 + (21 + 7 + 21
+ 28 = 77) + 14.
o Notice how between the 56 and the 14, is 77 syllables -- the 77th Son, at His own hypothetical
age 77, originally scheduled to die in the 1077th anniversary of David's death
at his own age 77! [See Note b on the 77 used in Moses, Isaiah,
Daniel.]
o So the 77 palindrome 'hinges' at the
first 21, the archetypal number of Temple Building, which itself is
precedented on Jacob's years in Haran;
and before that, Noah's Thrice-Sent Dove. [See Note d on the 21
used in
Moses, Isaiah, Daniel.]
o The number of 50's in a 1050, is 21. So '21' is also
shorthand for a whole 1050 'house' of Time.
o Even more evocative, 21 is the number of sabbatical
years in the 50-year 'goyim' period that Israel BOUGHT, by keeping her
sabbatical years.
o So 21 also means Buying Time for unbelievers, To
Vote. [Math
proof is in page 15 of TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc
.]
o
Double-77's is a clever way to show He was in David
and David in Him.
o The Pregnancy Precedence, Isa53:11 -- He
is in Father; the
human race is in Him, The-Ark-The-Mercy-Seat-Depicted;
so humanity's survival depends on how HE
VOTES (the 56 'outside'
the 77, the 14 also 'outside' 77; 56 +
14 = 70, the standard voting period).
o Notice how verse 6 ends with a '14' clause. Contingency: maybe His Vote would complete, maybe
not. He was free to reject, just like
any human. [Theme
of the later Hebrews 2 and last half of 4.]
o
Then, He being birthed as Human (Heb 10:5),
VOTED; hence PREPAID for Pregnancy 2, us as Body of Christ.
So now let's examine why Paul cross-references these meters.
o
The 56 (one-half = 28), is the most-stressed
meter (see also
End Notes A and e).
Meaning? Vote Critical, Vote Crucial, Vote that Continues or Stops, Time
itself. The Lord is THE Reason for Time, Hebrews 1:2
in Greek. [English
'worlds' is a mistranslation, it should read 'Ages', aka time, dispensations.] Since Ephesians
1:3-14 are on God's Design for Church, and since that Design is to Make Church For Christ, Our Voting is
as Critical to Time Continuing, as His was.
The Body Has The Same Job, As Its Head. Paul already introduced The Head in
1Cor12:31, with 1Cor13 a witty way to explain what's in HIS Head, should be
in ours via Canon Completion, Paul's theme for the book since 1Cor1:5 (again, in Greek; it's
mistranslated).
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Daniel 9 uses the 56 inversely,
by omission (ellipsis), except in Dan 9:9-10. His total is 57 in that
verse pair. Meter period covers the bad phase of Asa (who had a good run, prior) through Joash, the latter
being the guy who ordered Zechariah killed (son of high priest Jehoaida, who RAISED Joash). All of them started out well, but ended
badly; so they flunked 57, got 56'd, mene mene tekel upharsin (57 days from Passover to
Pentecost; 56 days between Pentecost and 9th Av).
Whoops. [Paul sets up his own vote with
verses 3-14 as background; in verses
15-23, Paul votes the model prayer we should also pray; thus he plays on Daniel's prayer content,
to show the import of Church Voting.]
Idea that Israel's
shortfall is now history, hence Daniel prays; so '56' is left to bosheth
silence. So, he talks around 56, but not on 56. Example: Dan9:1-13's syllables total 434 = 490-56, aka '62 weeks'; Daniel 9:16 uses 62 syllables, for the same
reason: verse content asks God to
restore the Temple and Israel. So God
also responds in meter and explicitly, with '62'. (In translation, the 62
'comes from nowhere'.)
Daniel also uses 49 as a stand-in for 56 (see also End Note A), in Dan9:4, 13 as bookended
datelines, with '49' as the Year-from-Temple-Down, when he prays; then, after
he ends a metrical round-robin history of Israel's kings, he stops at
607 bc when he was taken hostage, Dan9:14,
his Time Track 2. Yet in his Time Track 3, he tagged his syllables' difference-between-sevened-paragraphs,
to Isaiah 53's kings' chronology, then comes back to the date he
prays, in Daniel 9:13. Syllable
count? 434! Thus Daniel admits Isaiah's prophecy on
that future history, came to pass.
How Daniel 9 and Isaiah 53 further relate, follows below under Isaiah's 56 meter usage. [Footnote E of http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc
has a full accounting of Daniel's meter with matching Kings and Chronicles
passages.]
Daniel also uses 49, as he knows the seven
extra sabbatical years will elapse ON the 49, while the Temple is Down. (See also End Note A.) That extra seven cannot be made up during Israel's time; so, Daniel's prayer ends 56 years short of the
entire Divine Plan of Time, his third 'silent' use of the 56.
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Psalm 90 uses the 56 meter in its own verses 7 through
9 (sum is 57,
but recall that your 57th year begins on your 56th birthday).
Also, the 56 is in verses 9+10, 13 through 15, 16+17. So Moses piggybacks verse 9, mirrors
9+10 with 16+17. He nests 13
through 15. All the same doctrinal
meaning, voting crisis or voting crucial: 56 is the upcoming, prophetical shortfall
(49+7, years owed due to Temple Down).
· In my Psalm 90 videos (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLFF2856603C945631), I went though Moses' meter structure. 84, the Decree
containing the Millennium; 70, the Adamic 1050, verses 5-8; 70, the Noahic 1050, verses 9-11; 70, the Mosaic 1050, verses 12-15, with
Moses writing autobiographically of his own vote during that 70. Finally, the 56 in verses 16+17, a then-future 1050 for Israel --
relative to the Flood; for Moses pens Psalm 90 in the 1050th anniversary
of the Flood -- to parallel the Coming
of Messiah at its end (and He did come then). [Nerd note: Moses writes 1400bc,
the 1050th anniversary of the Flood. His
meter totals 350 syllables = 350 years, which will become 'our' 1050 bc, once that 'future calendar' completed. At that point, Messiah was to arrive/be born
1050 years later. We moderns won't
exactly tally to that number owing to calendar problems cutting out 3 years
when we converted to BC/AD accounting, based on Rome's. See Roman Chronology
problems. Three extra years
inserted offset by 3 years excluded, is self-canceling: so some dates
coincide.]
· All these
periods demand, VOTE FOR GOD: else Time Ends. Accordingly, Daniel Votes for the '490' to be Restored; its prophetical use is secondary; for its
prophecy was long set in Psalm 90, and
Mosaic Law. Instead, Dan 9 is
about Justice ACCOUNTING. For Time is Loaned in units of 490+70+790=1050; with the 70 as the Mass Believer Voting
Period, ever since Adam's fall. That 70
came EARLY, due to Temple Down. So that's
why Daniel Votes. Him, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, a few others.. their votes, SAVED TIME.
·
Next Psalm 90 item:
Moses creates a 56 piggybacking two Voting Periods
in two 1050 units; Psalm 90:8 belongs to the Adamic 1050, but verse 9,
to the Noahic. Get the point? Noah wouldn't have existed to vote, had those before
him, not voted for God.
· See why the 56 is piggybacked? So Psalm 90:9+10 exist because verses 7 through 9 existed first; so then verses 16+17 will exist -- 467-397 bc, the then-future scheduled
70-year Voting Window -- because
verses 13 through 15 (Mosaic
period) existed. Clever, huh.
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· So then
the FUTURE of Psalm 90:16+17 will NOT exist, if Israel Doesn't Complete Her
Vote. That's Why Daniel Votes, 70 years
before the voting period depicted by Psalm 90:16-17, begins. Why Daniel metrically records his vote
tying back to Psalm 90, in Daniel 9:5.
[Second dateline use of meter -- verse 4 was 49 syllables, meter dateline of
Years-From-Temple Down, syllable 252 in Isaiah 53's meter, covered below. So
Dan9:5's second dateline, is a cumulative meter of 73 sevens = 511 years prior to 538 bc, = 1050 BC, where Moses left off, in Psalm 90:17. Notice that the sum 538 + 511 = 1049, tells you Daniel prays
at or near the START of 538BC. Which we
know, since Cyrus conquered Babylon at the end of 539BC (10-11 Marchesvan, per
ISBE). Daniel also makes another
dateline emphasizing he's 70 years from the absolute historical (official) next voting window, by using 69 as his meter in
Dan9:18. (Again, remember an anniversary
is 1 less than the beginning of the new year.)
He actually closes his prayer with two datelines, just as he opened his
prayer with two. Second ending dateline:
Daniel's prayer total syllables are 742; 742
sevens, is 5194; all
history was to last 5250 years, per Psalm 90; so Daniel closes on the
pregnant 56 (5250-5194=56), and THAT is why Paul opens AND closes with a 56, as well. Awesome stuff, when you realize Daniel and
also Paul, merely talk out loud. This
tells you how far God can develop one's thinking, far exceeding our
limitations!]
· Next, why
Psalm 90:13-15, are nested. This period covers Moses' own vote, the 70-year
Voting Window ending 1446 bc, six
years pre-Exodus [row
83 in http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls]. The nesting stresses how his vote bought Time
(which God
stressed as entirely due to moses,
Numbers 14:12 and Exodus 32:10). So Moses metrically shows how he
himself could not have voted, and thus Israel could not have existed, had Noah not voted (i.e., Genesis 6:8).
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Isaiah 53 thus
uses the 56, to continue the same stress as Moses, in effect elaborating on the 56 cliffhanger at the end of Psalm 90:16+17. That's where Isaiah picks up his Time
Accounting.
§
So Isaiah
53 mirrors 56-syllable 'paragraphs' in Isaiah 53:1+2, 5+6 and 9+11. Moses had used four 56's, but Isaiah only
uses three. Why? Because time has elapsed.
Here, we must review Isaiah's structure for Chapter
53.
§
42 sevens (294 years) after
Moses ended Psalm 90, and 42 years after Azariah
(aka Uzziah, to distinguish him from the
high priest of the same name) began his
reign, Isaiah is called by God (same meter
as in Isaiah 1:1). So he begins Chapter 53 (52:13-14 in Hebrew)
with that dateline paragraph.
§
Isaiah's
metered chronology, though, picks
up where Moses leaves off, when human kings begin due to Israel
rejecting God (1050 bc);
§ So Isaiah starts at David's birth (1040 bc,
skipping Saul), as his meter theme is First
David to Last David, running sotto-voce beneath and related
to, the actual text. [Daniel will do the same, but he begins at David's
Hebron Kingship, in Dan9:6, first time
he mentions 'rulers' (m'lakeynu).]
§
Isaiah thus
structures Chapter 53 to run 1078 syllables = the 1077th anniversary of David's death = scheduled
death of Messiah, at the end of Chapter 53. For Messiah must die no
later than the 1000th anniversary of David's death, or Time Must End.
This balances to
Moses' Psalm 90 structure of 5250 years Allotted for History, assuming Israel
accepted Christ when He came. Its last
57 years were represented by Jubilee and Tribulation; by Passover plus Pentecost, and David had
been dead 1000 years (maybe to the day) when 4200 - 57 would occur.
§
In Isaiah 53,
there are two periods in ellipsis:
·
252 years between Isaiah 52:15 and 53:1, where Isaiah
begins to track to Hezekiah et seq., going into the present and future.
·
Second ellipsis
is 364 years between Isa53:10 and 53:11, to promise refund
of 1st Temple Time.
§ For Isaiah writes Chapter 53, 126 years prior to the Temple's fall, at which point the Temple will be SHORT
126 years of its own 490-year Time Grant. [Hence
Daniel 9:2 +v.25, tally 70+49+7; the 62 weeks is new time, in response to
Daniel's 434-syllable and 62-syllable request, in Daniel 9:1-13, plus verse
16.]
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So Isaiah's 56's are three, to represent three SHORTFALLS in voting,
all of them then-future:
· First shortfall, Manasseh's, born 14 years after Isaiah datelines Isaiah
53:1. Daniel will tie to this '56' by pregnantly using a 58 in his metered chronology, at Daniel 9:12 (end of the verse).
He uses 58, because Manasseh did finally come to love the Lord, but late (2Chron33:13, 2Kings 23:6, 24:3). Too late,
for God's Vote to Destroy the Temple and Jerusalem, to be rescinded.
You've just got to see Daniel's number wit, here:
·
57 days from
Passover beginning to Pentecost;
·
57 days from Pentecost
to 9th Av, which will become the day the Temple goes down, TWICE;
·
56 days, between
each of those dates.
·
57 years before
the End of Time when Millennium was to begin, Messiah was scheduled to die.
·
That was
represented by Jubilee and Jacob's Trouble,
·
by Passover and
Pentecost, and initially,
·
by the
number of days Noah was over his birthday, when he both entered AND exited, the Ark (Genesis 7:11 in LXX and 8:14, respectively). Notice the
parallels? The precedents?
·
So '58', shows
Manasseh's repentance was too late to
stop Temple downfall. Deadline
signified by the '56' in Isaiah 53:1-2, was missed. Just as Isaiah predicted it would be.
2Kings 21:11-15 records God's Vote, due to Manasseh's negativity and hence Israel's (for kings always symbolize their people's attitudes): as per the
1Kings 9 contract with Solomon when the Temple was dedicated, it and Jerusalem,
Will Go Down. So Daniel invokes
that Vote, when praying Dan9:13 and 16. (Daniel's
meter date at verse 13's beginning is Manasseh's birth, representing his
life. See 2 Chron 33 for a more detailed
account. Notice how Manasseh's reign is
also short of 56. Ouch.)
· 2nd shortfall, Temple Down, 1Kings 9 contract for its restoration; so Daniel prays at the start of the last
missed sabbatical year, syllable 252 in Isaiah 53. [712 - (252-77) =538.
Beginning of 538, so 537 in the math. See also End Note G.] Dan9:13 tags Isaiah via summed meter
differences between the sevened paragraphs ending Dan9:12, + Dan9:13, which itself
runs 49 syllables, same as Dan9:4. Get
the pun? 14 sevens (49, bookended)! So this shortfall was 'saved' by
Daniel.
· That's another reason why Paul will use '56' as his beginning and elliptical ending. How do we
know? Paul climactically tags his own
syllable 252 as well, to end Ephesians 1:10! Saving All Time!
· Why? Well,
behold Psalm 90:13, ending with its own syllable 252: "Return, Oh God! How long?!
Feel sorry for your servants."
So, Daniel invokes it! So, Paul
also tags it! What accounting genius! [I bet
your head is swimming now, since mine is.
Go get coffee or milk, yell and scream, then return.]
· Do you get the pun yet? Psalm 90:13 is Moses' vote, while he was in
the wilderness. God seemed far away,
Israel still in slavery; yet God
told Moses, Go Away; so he did.
Note the parallel: Temple
Down, God seems far away; Daniel 'votes' the 252. So Paul, capitalizing
on his readers' oral familiarity with Scripture and hence syllable counts,
pegs his own syllable 252, to church-fulfills-time-by-divine
design, Ephesians 1:10!
[Nerd
Note: Moses' voting to Leave Egypt due to Voting For God, is in Exodus
2:15, Acts 7:29, Hebrews 11:27. The Exo
passage was his initial reaction, but God ordered him to leave, too. Then ordered him back, Exo 4:19; which is
bookended in structure, so from it you know God ordered that Moses flee,
initially. Same parallel idea is used in
Matt2, with Joseph. Problem with Hebrew yare
and Greek phobew is that the verbs mean both fear and respect,
so it's sometimes hard to tell the difference.
We know from Hebrews 11:27 that it wasn't Pharaoh whom Moses
feared, but a Different King.]
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· Third shortfall
is yet future from Daniel, and the reason for his prayer: the
PROMISE that if the votes complete, Temple will be restored and MESSIAH can be
born and complete. This promise Daniel
metrically invokes, in his prayer (again,
in verses 1-13, and verse 16), giving
rise to God's explicit reply of '62 weeks' in Daniel 9:25 (364 reimbursement plus a new 70). Here's a
2-minute summary of Isaiah's pattern: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJr9PZhlJ9g
.
· The fourth 56 is Christ. For Isaiah 53:11-12 sum 70 syllables, not
56. Meaning? The Vote Will Complete.
See why Moses put 14 syllables
inside Psalm 90:1-4, omitting them from the end? Note how Isaiah 53:9+11 (56
syllables!) 'reply' to Psalm 90:17 --which is about HANDS? Stated TWICE? Yeah, God-Man, Two Natures in One
Person; God Adds Hands And Prospers (Isa53:10b,
Son becomes The Christ), delivers His
People!
·
So Paul keys off that
fourth 56, by
datelining his own Eph1:3-14, with a first-sevened paragraph of '56' (Christ's 57th birthday, really). AND, his
syllable sum ending verse 14, is 434!
Isn't it amazing what a little syllable-counting can
do, to reveal Bible meaning? And just
think: in Paul's day, that's what
everyone did! Memorize aurally, count
syllables to test memory, while thrashing wheat, on foot to Jerusalem or
Ephesus, waiting in line to pay the tax farmer... So imagine how enjoyable it was, to recall
Bible in metered, doctrinally-significant sections!
Isn't it sad, how today we think God must be boring to
be majestic, how we consign Bible learning in the original-language texts to
'the scholars', though once upon a time every kid in Israel learned it by heart
-- so we're stuck with churchy and snoozy translations, so ambiguous
that anyone can 'make' them imply whatever they want them to mean? End Commercial Message.
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Next, 14. (See also End
Note G.) Double
7's. Evokes 77, 70 x 7, 490. In Bible,
it's a nexus. Or a prelude: first two dove-sendings by Noah, Gen8:8, 10,
12. Third time, she didn't return, just
as Christ didn't return from His Arrest, as shown by three sevens in Isaiah
53:7. Which Arrest, Noah's third
dove-sending, depicted. [See my FloodChronoREVISED.doc.
LXX text and Exodus 12 combine to show there's a four-day hiatus between
the third sending, and Noah's Birthday.
This period needs no mention, as it stands for the Lamb Set Aside Date.]
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NEXUS. First seven ENDS something. Second 7 BEGINS something. Sometimes they're reversed. That's the
pattern of '14', pan-Bible, Seven fat and lean years. Before that, the doubled-sevens Jacob had
to work to get Rachel. Before that, Noah's
7-day warning to get in da boat, and his waiting the first seven
days to send the dove, as distinct from the other two dove-sendings. So doubled sevens, aren't inevitably
contiguous: 7 year civil war fronted David's becoming king; he lived seven years after retiring.
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You see
the pattern. That Is How Paul Uses Ephesians 1:10. Same structure as Moses used for Psalm 90's
first four and last two verses, except that Christ is 'in the middle'. Get the wit: Moses 'encased' the 14
inside God's 84-syllable Decree, Psalm 90:1-4.
Christ is God. So Paul 'encases'
the first two 91's representing the Decree to Create Christ and His Life down here (subject of Isaiah 52:13-15), inside a 56 + 14, with
Christ being AGE 56 when Paul writes! Is that Divine
Wit, or what? More on this Pregnant
14, will follow later.
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Psalm 90: 11-13 uses 14, three
times. Noahic vote, verse 11: Who knows Your Anger? Just as Your Respect
[for Your Righteousness], even so.. Your Wrath!
Double-entendre, that. We don't
know His anger, for He spent it on His Son -- on the Cross! We also don't know His Anger, since we don't
care to know -- Him.
Followed by, Psalm 90:12, now Moses' own vote: Teach us to number our days.
Then his famous 90:13, Return, Oh Lord! How Long?! The three 14's = 42, one half of 84. Hence
Matthew 2's genealogy adopts the 42, shows 42 legitimate generations of
kings culminating in Messiah (leaving out
Athaliah's kids). Matthew apes Isaiah's 42 syllables in
Isa52:13-14, Decree to Create The Last David Who Saves Israel. Of course, He saved the Gentiles too,
so Luke 3 adds Isa52:15's syllables (35), to create his narrative of 77 generations.
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77th Son.
The Two Sevens of History.
The Nexus.
Made Fat with Divine Truth,
Delights Himself in fatness, Isaiah 55:2,
deixzai autoi, phws, LXX
Isa53:11.
Yeah, because all Fat is the Lord's, Lev 3:16.
"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life."
Made Lean on the Cross,
Fattened up with our sins.
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Daniel 9 treats the 14 with ashamed
silence. Or reverence. By Daniel 9:14, when he ends the legal basis
for his petition (beginning in verse 15), his syllable sum is 490-14=476. shortfall. Total prayer including petition, runs 742 syllables: should have been 750, the Sevens of Allotted Time. But short, 56. Because, Allotted Time was 14 short, when he prayed. So to
get it back, Christ would have to come First.
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And, He
would. That leads to the next factor,
77. As we just saw, the 77th Son would be Born on Time. So to play on both 14 and 77 at the same time, Paul uses 14's as bookends: as you'll soon
see below, in Pregnancy
2.
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All History waited
for that 77th Son, Romans 8:11 in Greek (pregnancy
analogy, Paul never tires of using it). David died at age 77 due to his Greater
Son.
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Moses also pegged
the Last Adam's birth to the First Adam's 1050 and the Noahic 1050, with a 77-syllable cluster nested in Psalm
90:8-10.
·
Verse 8, was the last part of the Adamic period vote (the content reflecting what believers thought), Our sins are illuminated before You -- yeah, Messiah
would turn our darkness into His Light on the Cross, LXX of Isaiah 53:11, deixzai
autoi, phws.
·
Verse 9, now Noahic content, For all of our days turn in
your anger; all our years, end with a
groaning sigh.
·
Then verse
10: Our days run 70 years, or if
in good health even 80 years, we live; but at the end, whoosh! we fly up. Just like James would later say, our lives
are nothing but a vapor trail in the sky.
[James
4:14, but he built it on a quote of Psalm 90:5-6, in James 1:10-11. So he has Ps90:10 in mind, in 4:14, look at
his context. Nerd note on Psalm
90:10. Noah would know the future life expectancy, and this passage seems a
real play on numbers. For just as Moses
is doing in Psalm 90, the number 70 depicted a 490 (70 x 7) or even a 1050,
since there was only one such unit in a 1050.
The 80, depicted the 560, since there are 10 sevens in a 70. So think: when Noah was born, life expectancy
was roughly 1050 years, as illustrated by Methusaleh. But he himself, was alive 500 years when
he voted during the voting window.
Cute, huh.]
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Isaiah 53 uses the 77 as a sum
in Isa52:13-15, David's age at death.
Played on by Luke, Last David is the 77th Son. Idea that both of them Live And Die On Time.
Saving, Time. David got six Time Grants
keyed to his death, and kingship dates (both
beginning and ending). History was greatly impacted by their
deadlines:
·
Temple
reconstruction was deadlined by the
490th anniversary of his Hebron kingship, which Daniel 9 uses as its
start point, in the Marching Meleks of 9:5 et seq. That deadline was 520 bc; and we know from Haggai 2, that Temple reconstruction
re-commenced without stopping, in 521 bc. [I trace
that out in http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm#Purim
. That section is long, so next search on '537' to go straight to the
Rebuilding. Extensive Bible quotes are
linked, there.]
·
Temple
completion was deadlined by the 490th
anniversary of David's retirement, 513 bc. So God made the 70 years end 3 years prior,
586-70=516.
·
Purim was deadlined by the 490th anniversary of David's
death, 473 bc. Ironically, that was the year Haman had
'divined' for the death of the Jews. [You'll find these deadlines compared to the events, in
rows 138-144, highlighted in royal blue, in http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls.]
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·
The other three Time
Grants were 1000's, and again History was impacted:
·
The 77th Son
had to be born by the 1000th
anniversary of David's consolidated kingship, else that 1000-year promise (and time grant)
would expire;
·
He would have
to die no later than the 1000th
anniversary of David's death, which was 57 years before the Millennium was
to begin, long encoded in the Mosaic Law.
·
In the event,
He died on the 1000th anniversary of David's retirement. ['Scholars' claim David died at age 70, dismiss 1Kings
6:1 as an error, since it's the 11th year of Solomon. They don't READ 1Kings1 - 2:39, which covers
to END OF 3rd YEAR AFTER DAVID DIED. So
'4th year of Solomon', is post-David; so
you KNOW FROM BIBLE he was 77 when he died!]
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As with 14, Daniel 9 is silent on 77. He balances
to 490, but no verses sum 77 syllables.
How sad.
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But the 77th Son, was Born on Time. For God answered Daniel, with a '77'. Because, Daniel Voted On Time. That's why Paul could be born, write about
Him Who Was Born to Die and Save, thus generating...
Pregnancy
1b, Ephesians 1:7-9,
Meter sum 91 = 13 sevens,
but +56 = 147 same as Pregnancy 1a
Son's
Temple Voting
(2nd 'Glory' paragraph,
Father Glorifying Son: see Outline).
Meter Pattern for verses 7-9
= 28 + 56 + 7
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This
Pregnancy 1b, is still His Own; but
Church is His Body, get it? Of course,
that's exactly what verses 7-9, say. Our
Childless Savior (Isa53:8), Pregnant with Her. On the Cross, Isaiah 53:11. In order to make sons, Isaiah 53:10. So the Sterile Bears Kids, Isaiah 54:1! And we 'kids' weren't even born yet; He
contracted for our birth in advance per Father's Discretion, Matt 16:18,
John 17:17-23, based on Isa53:10! So
what's the metrical pregnancy nesting?
§
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
56's, Vote Crucial)
§
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7
+ 14 (nested 63's, Vote Short)
§
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14
+ 28 +56 + 7 + 14 (nested
70's, Vote Complete)
§
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
77's, Death Successful)
§
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 +
56 + 7 + 14 (nested 77's)
§
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 +
28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
84's, Decree Complete)
§
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested 91's, Decree
Complete, Loss Made Up)
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Verses 7-9, syllables: 91 = 28 + 56 + 7. [See Note e on 28, and Note f on 63, and Note c on 84.]
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Isaiah 53:9 or
11 = 28; 53:9+10 or 53:10+11 =
63; 52:15 to
53:2 or 53:9 to 11 or 53:4
to 6 =
91.
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Psalm 90's 63's
are: sum at its verse 3, any trio among verses 4, 8, 9, 16; sum of verses 14 to 16.
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Psalm 90's 28 sum is
in its verses 11-13 (palindrome of three 14's).
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Psalm 90's 84 + 7 = 91 sum is in its verses 4-8, 8-11, 12-16. Note 70-year voting
periods precede or follow 21's, to stress Voting Causes Time to Exist. Paul thus patterns his 91's chiefly on Psalm 90. For Israel's Negative Vote is the legal basis for the
Rapture: hence Matt16:18, 'Esther' is sought, as Vashti refused to
come, Matt22.
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Daniel 9 doesn't use the
factors directly. Dan 9:13+14 = 91. Text is poignant, on negative voting. Verse 13, Just as
written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us [Daniel
thinks of Lev 26 and Deut 28 when he talks]; and even so, we STILL aren't
heartbroken enough to turn back to The Lord Our God, turn away from our sins,
(re)turn to Wisdom within Your Truth. Daniel next says in verse 14, So God sent us evil; for Our God is Righteous in all His Acts that He
does; for we did not listen, to His Voice.
Dan9:7, 91 x 2 = 182,
cumulative syllable count, equals the difference
between his last sevened paragraph, verse 4 @49
syllables, and verse 7, @182. The difference is 133,
which ties to Isaiah 53:2's end +Psalm 90:7's end. Both passages are on man's anger/disrespect
of God, resulting in God's 'anger' in reply.
By contrast, Paul antiphonally pegs the same
syllable 133
with Doxology to Son's
Glory (Eph1:6). All four passages admit
God is righteous; with our happy chorus, at the end.
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8 9 10 11
12 13 14
Pregnancy 2, Ephesians 1:10b-14,
Meter sum 91+91 = 13+13 sevens,
but +56 = 147+147, same as Pregnancy
1a and 1b
Church Temple Voting for Son and
Church Temple
Construction by Spirit
(last half of 2nd and all of third 'Glory' paragraphs, see Outline.)
Meter Pattern for verses 10b-14 = 49 + 7 + 35 + 91
o
Verses 10b-12, another 91 syllables with factors: 49 + 7 + 35. [See Note a on 49, Note e on 35.]
o
The 49 plays a dateline function in Dan9:4 and 13, for he
prays at the start of the 49th year;
Paul blatantly ties to that with prothesin, in Eph 1:11. It's climactic (so always mistranslated, of course).
o
Next, Psalm 90:5 to 7, its verses 10 to 11, both use 49.
o There's no 49 in Isaiah 53.
o
Both Psalm 90 passages are during Gentile
'times'. Both are Flood-related. Idea of the world being close to ending. Same theme, in Daniel. Thus we have a clearer sense that although 49
is the number of years between Jubilees in the Law, historically it represents
negative votes. Which surely we know
from Israel's Temple Down, however much we mistake the 49 missed sabbatical years, for 70. [Eusebius
carelessly back-slapped 70 onto 586BC, and for centuries no one asked, Why
Did God Let Them Return In Year 49?
Read his own miscalculation for yourself, here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eusebius_chronicon_01_text.htm
-- search on '432 years', then read to '502' years. Then, groan.]
o
Now we come to 35. Psalm
90 uses it in verses 10 and 17.
Here, interplay among the four passages is extremely deft. [To know why,
see My video on Isaiah 53's meter-as-chronology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOXuVeUthq4.]
o
Isaiah back-tags Moses' 35, in Isa52:15, 53:10
(bookends), and 53:3, 4, (mirror).
In Isaiah's metered chronology
usage,
o
End Isaiah
53:4, Temple Down, 586 bc, syllable 203, is the end of a '35'.
o
Dan9:12 tags Isa53:4, pegging to Manasseh's birth. (He's the reason for Temple Down, 2Kings
21:11-15, 23:26, 24:3, Jer15:4).
o
7th syllable into the last
clause of Isa53:6, began the last missed sabbatical year, @Isaiah's
syllable 252.
o
Psalm 90:13's syllable 252 had poignantly
cried, "Return, Oh Lord! How
Long?!"
o
Daniel doubly
tags both prior chapters in his 9:13, via cumulative differences
in his own meter to 'sum' at 252 (same method used to 'tag'
syllables 133 and 203).
For Daniel, Isaiah 53:6's
syllable 252 (hiph'gia)
stood for
the Year To Invoke 1 Kings 9 Contract, Pray For Temple Return (early 538BC); Cyrus dies by
the end Isa 53:6 (=530BC).
o
Paul tags Ephesians 1:10 to that same syllable 252, thus mapping to all three
prior writers at the same
place. Paul also does this Daniel-style (via differences),
as well as directly, for syllable 133. He also does it at syllables 77 (Isaiah) and 84 (Moses), 175 (Moses) and 238 (Moses), but not 203 (Isaiah 53:4). Guess why.
o
Daniel's meter is a day-late-and-dollar-short
chronological pattern; he recounts the
kings' years from David forward, dividing where they became good (for awhile)
or went bad. So there are no 70's, and
no 35's.
o 7 is the base; as a standalone, Paul repeats it thrice, Eph 1:4d, 9d, 11c; severally matches Isaiah 53:7's first 3 clauses.
o
Isaiah
53:7 reads niggas wa hu na'ane 7, wa lo yiph'tach piu 7 ka seh latevah yuval 7 -- Future
Temple's carried off to His Execution sans protest. So compare Paul's antiphonal verse
4d, katenwpion autou; then, 9d, proetheto en autwi, then 11c, tou
ta panta energountos. Yeah, He dies
and goes where? TO FATHER! Having What? Been the Willing
Substitute for Sin! And what happens as
a result of His being slaughtered for our sins?
Father works all things IN HIM!
o
Neither
Psalm 90 nor Daniel use standalone sevens.
o Verses 13-14, another 91 syllables. No subfactors. Indivisible. With Liberty and Justice for All. It looks intentional:
o Isaiah 52:15-53:2 or 53:9-11 (91), 53:4-6 (91).
o
Psalm 90's 84 + 7 = 91 sum is in verses 4-8, 8-11, 12-16. Notice how the
70-year voting periods precede or follow 21's, to stress Voting Causes Time to
Exist. Paul
patterns his 91's chiefly on Psalm 90. For Israel's Negative Vote is the legal basis for the
Rapture: hence Matt16:18, 'Esther' is sought, as Vashti refused to come,
Matt22.
o Daniel9:13+14 = 91. Daniel 9:7, 91 x 2 = 182, cumulative syllable count.
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4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
Now look at the Ephesians 1:3-14
palindromes, heavily piggybacked, like Moses and
Isaiah did.
Here
we have the meter of the whole passage, sum of Pregnancy 1 and 2:
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 + 49 +
7 + 35 + 91
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28
+ 56
+ 7 +14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
56's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 +21 + 28 + 14 +28
+ 56 + 7+14 + 49+ 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
42's and 63's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 +49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
49's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14
+49 + 7 +35 + 91 (nested
70's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56
+ 7 + 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
84's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7
+ 14 +49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
91's)
Again we see concurrently, only Pregnancy 1, at 'left' of
the first '14' (=verse 10):
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
56's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 +21 + 28 + 14 +28
+ 56 + 7+14 + 49+ 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
42's and 63's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 +28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested 70's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
77's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 +
56 + 7 + 14 (nested 77's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56
+ 7 + 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
84's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested 91's)
Look at the meaning:
Paul takes ALL the meters
in Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, and Daniel 9, fits them together in CHURCH. For CHURCH is in CHRIST. This
underscores the point he makes in Eph1:10, that we are the summing-up of all
Trial matters (Angelic Conflict). No way to misread that verse, when you see
the meter. No way to conclude
preterism valid, now.
Preterism recognizes that
Church is a culmination, and higher. But
it doesn't recognize that the time owed the Jews, VESTED IN CHRIST, which
Moses, Isaiah and Daniel have long explained.
So the Trib and Mill must be paid, and we as Bride are the Bridge
Back to the Time Owed Christ.
And to be fair, most Dispies don't understand that, either. But the meter makes it plain.
Meter
has doctrinal meaning, as we've seen now, 50+ pages worth, attested in
Scripture anywhere you want to look, the following individual or group
factors. Maybe you'll find additional
meanings, but here's what I can prove, so far:
· 7 is the basic Divine Building Block.
· 14 is repeat, fat and lean years, creature failure to
meet Divine Deadline. Conversely, means
God-Man.
Ps90:11,12,13.
· 21 is Temple Building, half a 42,
Noah's thrice-sent dove, Jacob's time outside the Land, Ps90:4,8,9,16.
· 28 is failure (?) at Temple
Building, half a 56 (= 14 x 2, two positives must offset -- so try again).
Isa 53:9,11, Ps90:11+12, 12+13, 13+14.
· 35 is half-a-vote (or one party of
two, voting; with the other party yet to vote). Isa 52:15, 53:3,4,10.
· 42 is generation-building, Ps90:8+9,
Isa53:13+14, Dan 9:14, 17.
· 49 is generation building problem;
or, on the verge of completion. Daniel 9:4, 13; Ps90:5+6+7.
· 56 is Vote Critical, Isa53:1+2, 5+6. Psalm 16+17,
13+14+15, 9+10.
· 63 is Vote Short, Isaiah 53:10-11 (they kill Him 7 years
early); Ps90:14+15+16.
· 70 is Vote Completed. Mimics Isaiah 53:3+4, 7+8.
· 77 is Winning Death, mimics 70 x 7 = 490. Mimics,
Isaiah 52:13-15.
· 84 is Decree Completed. Mimics Psalm 90:1-4.
· 91 is Decree Completed with Loss
Made Up. 91 = 28 + 56+7=63, Isaiah; = 70 + 21, Moses.
This is deliberate.
Handy too; for while you threshed wheat or walked to town, you could
easily recall and mull over Scripture, thus obeying Deut 6:5-12.
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4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
Look
again at the Ephesians 1:3-14 palindromes, heavily piggybacked, like Moses and
Isaiah did.
Here
we have the meter of the whole passage, sum of Pregnancy 1 and 2:
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
49's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7
+ 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
56's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 +21 + 28 + 14 + 28 +56 + 7 +14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
42's and 63's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 + 49 + 7
+ 35 +91 (nested
70's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 + 49
+ 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
91's)
Again we see concurrently, only
Pregnancy 1, at 'left' of the ending '14' (=in verse 10):
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 +49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
49's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
56's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 +21 + 28 + 14 +28
+ 56 + 7+14 + 49+ 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
42's and 63's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 +28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested 70's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 +
56 + 7 + 14 (nested 77's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
77's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56
+ 7 + 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
84's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested 91's)
Now Look at the Sequence:
o
You see Messiah's
extra 7 years owed His Life, cut out
since He was rejected seven years EARLY,
is symbolized the tally contiguous with His 'time in Father', 56+ Pregnancy 1 (the sequence 21+7+21+28+14). Him in
eternity past as the text says, verses 3-6, with focus on second
clause in verse 4, through verse 6. First
Quarter of 'Time', as it were. Time
when we too were only 'alive', in His Head as GOD (all those 'before I
formed you I knew you' verses in the OT).
o
So the
first seven, Daniel 9's 62nd 'week', was part of His life Decreed from eternity
past, 'inside' Eph 1:4. It didn't end up playing out, as He was
rejected. Paul all at once
targets the 7th Hebrew syllable of Isa53:2 AND its LXX enantion autou. Greek preposition enantion connotes
being before someone in a TRIAL. The
stronger katenwpion autou denotes Successful Trial Outcome, meeting the
Judge's Standard. Ergo Good Report (epainon)
aka 'praise' of Eph1:6 eternity-past purpose, again relates to Isaiah
53:1. So despite being cut short,
He will Meet The Standard. God's.
o
That ties
to Isaiah 52:13-15, so Paul's total is also 77 syllables;
for Isaiah 52:13-15, is the Decree to Create Christ. Paul
parallels Isaiah's 42 then 35 syllables.
Paul makes it 56 and 21 syllables.
Ergo the metric shorthand: Isaiah,
42=generation-building, 35=One Party (God) voting. Christ's eternity-past 'reply' is 56=Vote
Critical, 21=Temple-Building. And of
course the sum = Successful Death, not merely completed vote. All of which was Decreed in Mutual Contract,
Isaiah 53:10.
o
Mosaic 84 in Psalm 90's Decree=Christ and the Millennium owed Him, is here shown
as a 77, like Isaiah's truncation of 84 to 77 in Isa52:13-15.
Notice the 28+56, and how the second 7 is to the right, again stressing He
Met the Standard despite dying 7 years early, this time with the sum
28+56+7=91, showing how His early Death nonetheless made up for the loss. Conclusion? This time is owed CHRIST as a prerequisite
for His Second Advent to be 'delivered', since He paid for it.
o
So 56+21=77 repeats with two added, nested
77's; with a 'pregnant' 70 between them, +7+21+28+14. Note the first 14 closes verse 6. Two Trib sevens, now funded, yet to play. Mimicking, Moses 'housing' the 14, inside
Psalm 90:4. In
other words, the foreknown rejection still was allowed to occur; God
won't compromise Freedom. So
the extra 7's, are real and owed Christ. Cleverly attested by the words Paul chooses, in that last clause of
Eph1:6: "within, the
Beloved". No way to miss that
meaning, if you know the meter.
And of course, Paul's audience did know it, that's why Paul used it.
o
Next, notice the
first 14 is last in the sequence.
A 'left' bookend.
o
Now to the right
of that first 14, another 91, factored
as 28+56+7. Which factors, are exactly what Isaiah
53:9-11, says. In both meter AND plain
text. This meter thingy makes it easier to "apprehend the exact
thought of the writer", huh.
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4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
Still
on Ephesians 1:3-14 palindromes, heavily piggybacked, like Moses and Isaiah
did.
Here
we have the meter of the whole passage, sum of Pregnancy 1 and 2:
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
49's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7
+ 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
56's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 +21 + 28 + 14 + 28 +56 + 7 +14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
42's and 63's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 + 49 + 7
+ 35 +91 (nested
70's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7
+ 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
91's)
Still we see concurrently, only
Pregnancy 1, at 'left' of the ending '14' (=in verse 10):
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 +28 + 14 +28 + 56 + 7 + 14 + 49
+ 7 + 35 + 91 (nested 49's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 +28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
56's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 +21 + 28 +14 +28
+56 + 7+ 14 + 49+ 7 + 35 + 91 (nested
42's and 63's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 +21 + 28 + 14 +28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested 70's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 +28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
77's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 +28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested
77's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 +28 + 56
+ 7 + 14 + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91 (nested 84's)
·
56 + 21 + 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 +28 + 56 + 7 + 14 (nested 91's)
Still on the Sequence:
o
Verses 7-9, now, portraying Him on earth. Still Pregnancy 1, but just as verses 7-9 say, now it's Hebrews 10:5ff time, Him Being Made
into The Copybook, creating the Asset Base from which our inheritance is
derived, his John 14 discourse on making a House for us, Eph 1:7-9. [Remember that the NT is serially
written, but the information was known long prior. So the fact John's Gospel didn't come out
until the mid-90's AD, doesn't mean the material was unknown,
prior.]
o
So Pregnancy 1 is the SUM of eternity past as God (and all the foreknowledge of what He'd
become, as Human), plus what He
actually became: verses
4-6, starting at the second clause
of verse 4 (eternity past), plus verses 7-9 (His Time Down Here). Moreover, Paul's meter tells us what Bible passages
to cross-reference; even as, his explicit text.
Great economy of concordance.
o
Pregnancy 1 Is Our Precedence. Not, Israel. Again legally,
verses 3-14 are one sentence. Nothing
outside it, 'counts'.
o
So now look at
what's to the right of the second 14 (verse 10a), notice that the 56+7 and 49+7 are attached to it, Summing Up the Trial. So what does that tell you? If we don't VOTE, verse 10 won't finish. Just as Hebrews 11:39-40 will say.
o
Pregnancy 2: + 49 + 7 + 35 + 91.
o
Note these
numbers include a separate 7. No longer
two, but only one. The one we Bridge
to. Yet future.
o
So by using 91's
twice on the other side of Ephesians 1:10a, Paul metrically depicts our
BRIDGING role, just as the
explicit text of Eph1:10, says.
o
Just as with
verse 4, the second clause
of verse 10, begins another 91.
o Both the first clause in verse 4 and the first clause in verse 10, are Decrees.
o
Verse 4, our position in Him. Verse 10, our function
in Him. Between, our assets in
him on earth, now in him in
heaven; so into us is the Shewbread Plan, second clause in verse 11. So en
him, to eis us to eis Him, eis to einai Heis as He
prayed, in John 17.
o
That's GOD's
vote: last clause verse 11 through
verse 12, is factored at 35. One Party Voted, just like Paul said in Galatians
3:20.
o
And where's our vote? Oh,
we have the same problem as Israel did! 49. 7. We will be short. We won't use Time to study Bible, even as she
didn't use her sabbatical years to study.
2000 years later, and it's still true.
o
People forget, 'Rapture' is not a happy thing. It means, no one is believing, anymore. Just like the
Flood. So here, Paul tells us a time will come when we
believers will not vote for god anymore. Just as Moses and Isaiah warned Israel. [We don't have sabbatical years, but we do
vote. Again, Israel is outside the
sentence. Voting was a rule pre-Israel,
as I hope you've seen by now.]
o So Who will make sure Father's Decree will be met, since we too have our own 56 (49+7) problem? The Spirit. Shown by, a non-factored 91, closing the passage. Cute, huh. So now do you see why Paul finishes his verse sum, at 434?
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So a Pregnant 14 Juridically Caused
Pregnancy 1 and Pregnancy 2.
o Israel's rejection is our raison d'etre. That 14 is pretty pregnant, huh. Shortage predicted and tracked ever since Psalm 90, signifying Israel would vote negative. Daniel
9, Two Trib Sevens, one
'embedded' within the 62nd week.
[Which preterist scholars count as
only ONE that 'played' in 64-70AD, as they ASSume Bible uses lunar years (490
lunar years = 483 solar, so the extra 7 is overlooked).]
o
Israel in
effect used that extra seven to reject Christ rather than accept Him. That's the parallel Paul draws, for Church. So let's
review its significance.
Had Israel accepted Him, He'd have lived to age 40, so
would have been king as long as David; after the Cross, the 50 years would
instantly start, followed by the Trib, just as the Mosaic Law always said.
So that seven was a
hanging chad, since if she had
accepted Him, He'd have died On Time.
However, she rejected Him; so that extra seven,
played AGAINST her. At the time Paul writes, everyone was aware
this seven had to play out within 40 years after the Crucifixion, since that's
what Daniel 9:26 says would happen: Messiah
Down, then Temple Down. Since Israel
rejected Him, '50' no longer was the ellipsis 'number' applicable to the
situation; but rather the owed '40', since Israel was 40 years late getting
into the Land (wandering in the
wilderness, as Paul explained in Acts 13:20ff). So the 'Land' would be
'repaid' for being 'shorted' Temple Time. So the Gentiles would be 'paid'
the '40' owed their 'time' due to Abraham maturing 54 years too early. The 14, of course, was time already spent rebuilding the
Temple (21 years to build, including slack
time, rather than the standard of 7).
So, they expected Temple Down and Rapture, from 'our' 64-70AD. That's why Paul wrote, benchmarking the first 94 syllables for the
date-setters. To remind them it
was about VOTING in Daniel's day, and is STILL about Voting. For what did Daniel 9:14 say when he
finished the indictment portion of his prayer?
WE DID NOT LISTEN TO YOUR
VOICE, SO ALL THIS EVIL HAS COME UPON US. And at Dan9:14's end, how many
syllables? 476. 14 short!
o
Accordingly, now there is only ONE seven, the
Tribulation. And just as it was a hanging chad for
Israel, it remains one for us. If we
reject Christ too, history stops. Just because God predicts the outcome,
doesn't mean it's forced. TIME CAN
END. It almost did many times
before, pattern of the Flood. God
foreknew Israel would vote negative; He foreknows Church will complete, but individually, each of us can harm the
world by not voting properly. So TEMPLE DOWN is a real issue for us,
just as it was for Israel.
DOWN, is what
we in Christendom have been. For 2000
years, we don't know this meter? Which
any CHILD learns to count? Not known, when Christ was born and died? Can't count to 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS? Not known, that hello God is HOLY, so YES
All Sins Of All Humanity Were PAID On The Cross, just as Isa53:10's asham,
says! For 2000 years we've argued baby
theologies, Hebrews 6:1-6 our sad biography.
No wonder history is brutish. It's
our fault, Leviticus 26 and Deut 28! No preterist or Replacement-Theology
believer has EVER matured. You can't
mature by rejecting Time owed CHRIST, who is also King of the JEWS!
I often hear people complain, 'oh, you should just try to get along', in the
name of Christian fellowship, of course.
Yeah, that was Israel's compromising history, too. 2John9-11 orders shunning, see also Titus
3:10, 2Tim2:26-3:5, many other passages.
o
So now notice: Paul shows the
'summation of Trial matters' via Church, verse 10a -- via standalone '14'; same style as in Psalm 90. Examine Psalm 90:11-13, three 14's.
That was Noah and Moses' vote.
God will fulfill it. But we'll
be PUNISHED.
o
Paul thus shows Church has the same VOTING ROLE as Israel who Spurned
Her Husband When He Came. So God's Promises won't be fulfilled until
Church Vote Completes, Heb11:39-40.
Scary stuff, To Carry Time (Deut
32:8).
Paul stresses our role of 'Bridge' Back
to Time, just as Daniel functioned as a bridge during the Diaspora. For Israel is in Diaspora again.
o
So notice how Pregnancy 2 started out as Him being Pregnant with Us,
now leads to Us being Pregnant with Him, Gal 4:19. And thus, Deliver Time. Clever play on
Chronos, Gal 4:4. Just as Noah was
'pregnant' with the human race while still in the Ark, here we are 'pregnant'
with the Future Deliverance of Promises To Israel and the World: in Our Ark,
aka The Lord Jesus Christ. It's the
Wifely Thing to Do.
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8 9 10 11
12 13 14
o
Quad 91's, four dimensions of a 'building', John 14:2's monai
(with bloodline wordplay) and John 17's oneness, all due to Christ's Successful
Vote Which Rebirthed Time! Now
you know why Paul says what he did, in Gal 4:4;
why he prays as he does in Eph1:15-23, 3:15-19; why he uses a lexeme, in
Eph 3:21; most importantly, now you know why Ephesians 2 reads as it does. OT+Trib+Mill=one wall; Church=Other Wall.
Israel Is Not Church. Church is not Israel, either. God Never Reneges On His Promises. Cut out the Jews, and you cut out your own
inheritance. Saved, still -- but forever
naked, dependent on someone who didn't do that, for your welfare. Happy forever, but .. like the baby you
insisted on remaining, playing with your diaper theology, down here.
Sorry, but bluntness is needed: if we don't acquaint the preterists and
Replacement-Theology believers of the awesome Divine Discipline going with
those doctrines, they won't grow up and we will be to blame, Ezekiel 3:16-21. Strong words are needed, as those people are
completely full of themselves, and hence DEAF.
Maybe better to just bypass them, INSTEAD giving the warning to those
willing to hear it. So the warning still
goes out as it should, but YOU don't
waste your time giving such pearls, directly to the pigs that'll trample and
waste your time with their sterile, deaf arguments. 2000 YEARS, and they still don't get it.
o
So Paul pointedly
stops the meter at 434, evocative of Israel's 62 sevens in Daniel 9:26c, to
make obvious we are in a Time Bubble;
to show it's Church's responsibility to vote, and that we will have a
history of NOT VOTING PROPERLY; so it's a real threat, that Time ends. For us, that ending IS the Rapture.
Again, those who don't believe in the Rapture will
never mature, but the Completion of Church Only Depends On Those Maturing,
really. We already have enough babies.
We don't have enough kings. Doesn't require many kings, to complete
Church, as God is not a bureaucrat. Even
with a heavenly population of 100 billion, 1000 kings should suffice. [A guess I
derive from various estimates in http://www.brainout.net/LvS4b.htm;
search on 'calculate these' after you load the page, to go to that section.]
Well, we've not gotten that far. What a sad thing. This is not to imply you mature if you
believe in the Rapture, either. It's one
of many doctrines one must mature IN, to mature at all. Maturation has two distinct sides: knowing the Doctrine properly, and living it
out, properly. Can't live out what you disbelieve
or don't know; can't mature until you
live it out, either. Knowledge AND pram
(practice), not just one or the other.
And of course, practice +knowledge without Love, means nothing,
1Cor13:3. The goal of knowing, IS
loving. This motivates practice,
2Cor5:14, 20. So this is the holy
trinity of maturation. That's why Paul
prays Eph 3:15-19!
o
So Rapture
can occur, tomorrow. There are enough people in any generation
since the Cross who properly know the Rapture doctrine and believe
in it. And the rest will be Raptured up
as well, Body Complete: NO rewards.
o Paul stopping at 434, as we saw
in verse 4, also stresses when he writes, dated in terms of Years from The King
Who Renewed Time, Jesus the Christ, via Years Remaining in the 490 (434=490-56). It's the same Equidistant Style as Moses,
Isaiah, and Daniel used for their own datelines, see page 3 of my http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc
.
o One 'Year' of Time, 364. Plus, Voting, 70. Just like the Time Grant to Daniel.
o One 'Year' is also the sum of 280 days, typical estimate of the normal gestation period for humans, plus what? 84 . And 84 is what, besides the Decree portion of Psalm 90:1-4, which Isaiah 53 split into halves, which Matthew 1 used for his genealogy rhetoric, which Daniel bookended in Dan9:14, 17, but which Paul split into four 21's, such that 42 is on the 'left' side of Ephesians 1:10, and 42 is on the 'right' side? Well, here's what 84 is: 70+ what? 14!
o When Noah was in das Boot,
what was the length of time between the rain (Inundation, lit. Hebrew, beginning-point), and when he sent out the carrion-eating
raven? 280 days, LXX 40+110+93+40=283. And what happens when the Lord Returns? The birds feast on Israel's enemies, Rev
19:17ff. So what's in between? church
pregnant, Rom 8:11ff.
[Nerd Note: The
LXX Noahic time benchmarks are bookended thus: 7+40+110+93+40+7, with the
latter 40, when he sends the raven. That
last seven, is the first sending of the dove. The first seven is the warning,
and the first 40, how many days it rained.
So: 40+110+93+40=283, still within the pregnancy gestation period
today's physicians consider typical, measured from the onset of the last
menstruation. In between the two 40's,
are 203. Ring a bell? As in, the 203rd syllable of Isaiah
53=586BC, Temple Down? Benchmarked by Daniel?]
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Paul's Chronology of Future Church History
Related sections, prior:
first section of Meter Notes, Meter Tagging
Styles, Videos
on the topic.
We've
only seen thus far: a) Paul's use of 56 as
a dateline, Ephesians 1:4; and b) how
Paul benchmarked expected Rapture dates for
syllables 66, 73, 77 and 84. What about the rest of the passage? Surely he intends an ongoing chronology:
o
Daniel used three
consecutive chronologies via his selfsame meter;
o
Isaiah focused one track, and
o
Moses used two, in Psalm 90.
o
These Time Tracks were charted in my http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc ,
starting on page 3. (If you prefer pdf,
just change 'doc' to pdf.) Footnote E
there, also shows Daniel's chronological uses line by line. You'll need that text handy, to grasp this
section's flow; use its green-linked
maps, as well. (pdf
links here: Daniel
Isaiah Moses ). [Isa53 and Ps90 line-by-line
uses are shown live from the BHS text in Psalm 90 and 10GGS videos, links on page 5.
Later on, all the Daniel and Ephesians sections will be on video, too.]
So
how does Paul use meter chronologically? Proving a rhetorical style means accounting
for all of its function, testing the meanwhile for consistency of
pattern. So let's do that, now. Maybe watch the 10 GGS videos starting with Episode 11a;
for I go through this chronology in those videos. Or, download my http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls
history worksheet, then scroll down to year 4143 from Adam (middle
yellow column), and follow the history along.
You'll always have a three-year variance, I can't yet fix that. But it will be close enough. [Usage tip: use Views,
Custom Views in Excel: lots of 'snapshots' to different times in history,
easier navigation. Be sure to put your
mouse on the red triangles, when you see them.]
Paul
started the what-if-the Rapture scenario, in syllable 66. Here,
he keeps epic Greek meter of 10 or 11, a threaded constant common
in the NT, Hebrew meter mixed with Greek: to show the Uniting Nature Of Our
Church 'Time' (i.e.,
Jews are included).
Paul
then does a very clever thing, at syllable 66.
Look: 66 x 7 is 462, same number of syllables
as Isaiah 53.
o
Isaiah had also subdivided his
Chapter 53, into bookends of 133:
left bookend was Isaiah 52:13 through 53:2;
the right bookend, was Isaiah 53:9-12.
Shown here near the end, in a two-minute video (also
linked back in Pregnancy 1, Third Shortfall): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJr9PZhlJ9g.
Symbolically, the left 133 represented God's Decree, which we know from the text. God decrees, Messiah arrives, we don't
want Him. Textually, Isa53:3 begins
an antiphonal parenthesis, Isaiah responding to what he has just
depicted as a live movie, quoting what people will then say, wa lo hadar,
wa lo mareh. So his commentary (or God telling him to make it), goes from Isaiah 53:3, until Isaiah 53:8.
The right 133 bookend then began
in Isa53:9; God's Own Antiphonal Decree Response resumes, this time about
the Death and its aftermath. [LXX
resumes verse 9 in 1st person, just as Isa52:13. That antiphonal style is common in all the OT
prophets, with many a scholar commenting on it. You should be able to Google on
Hebrew +antiphony, to find it.]
o
So Daniel makes this very accounting point as his ending
petition in Dan 9:19, constructed from the difference between
that verse's syllables, and where he began the petition in verse 15.
o
Summing up, at 266
syllables. 2 x 133! He's asking God to complete the right
bookend!
o
The aggregate syllable count of Daniel's prayer
is 742, which is 8 sevens short of the total 5250
period allotted (including the Millennium), signifying again Israel is short. So Time is Short. That same 14,
spawned by the 49, which generated seven
extra sabbatical years that can't be redeemed, ended up being a '56'
issue. Hence the Tribulation.
o
Moreover, Daniel terminated his aggregate
indictment of Israel with two metrical benchmarks, 434 and
476, in Daniel 9:13 and 14, respectively. The 434,
closed his Time Track 2, ending full circle to the date he prays. The 476 was
his Time Track 1 of the kings, closing at 607 bc,
when he was taken hostage.
o
Paul thus plays on both Daniel and Isaiah; Paul
starts and ends his own meter when his own 490,
had 434 years left.
That sum was 28 less than Isaiah's.
Isaiah subdivided 28 into 21+7, for Temple Rebuilding time.
o
So Paul mixes both writers' metrical styles. Like them, he'll track time; and especially like Daniel , Paul will use meter to account how OUR VOTING continues or stops, Time
itself.
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o So
Paul picks up where Daniel 9 leaves off, for Church. Using 91, to
show unity of 70 representing both the Jews
and the voting period in force since Adam;
and, 21, which Jewish observance of
those 70 years per 490, 'bought' for Gentiles.
o
At the same time Paul subdivides his paragraphs
to play off Isaiah, in each '91'.
o Daniel
leaves off, at the 62nd week. Okay,
but Church goes on, now.
o So
Paul also goes on, after his own syllable 94, in Eph1:5a,
o which
94, tracked what-if-the-Rapture UP TO
the pre-Church expected date of the Millennium under
Daniel's metered accounting (our
94 or even 97AD):
o forecast,
ever since Moses. For 5250 from Adam's
Fall, is 94AD. [Again, we've that 3-year discrepancy in our
BC/AD calendars that I can't simply fix by slapping on 3 years to AD. I'd have to move the entire timeline from
Adam forward 3 years, and then you couldn't vet the BC dates I use, in scholarly
sources. I did the entire timeline ONLY
using Bible, first. Then, got the BC/AD
derivation, from Temple Fall, which nearly every scholar dates at 586BC (with
rounding problems); Bible concords with
that 'fit', and so does Paul, using '94 sevens' as
his anaphora sum (green highlights). The
resulting other BC/AD dates fit with conventional scholarship from 50 years
ago. There has been much Bible dating
incompetence in the last 50 years. So I
use BC/AD chronology you can track in tomes from 50-150 years ago, when
scholars were less constrained to be politically-correct. See Roman Chronology
problems, too. Three extra
years offset by 3 years excluded, is self-canceling: so some dates
coincide.]
Here's how Paul traces the
future chronologically, after syllable 94. We must review the nesting we just saw, to
distinguish his clever benchmarking.
Again, here's the entire meter pattern of Ephesians 1:3-14, focusing on
the 91 'nests'. The corresponding cumulative syllable numbers are in blue. (I hope this looks aligned,
on your computer!)
56 + 21+ 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 +
49 +
7 + 35 + 91 (nested
91's)
56 77
84 105 133
147 175 231
238 252 301
308 343 434
Notice
that the first nested 91
started at the first 21. Now notice the text at the end of that 21: we
are pronounced to be holy and blameless.
We saw that was a clever play on 77, so
it's apt to say that at the end of the 77,
the Rapture could have occurred. So for us, a new '91' would have
begun. Eternally.
At
the 77, we're still within the original Millennial
schedule, so Paul next benchmarks to 84,
tying to Psalm 90:4, as shown earlier.
84 also = 50 years after Christ's actual death (beginning
of the 51st year, technically); under the Daniel timeline, that period (in
ellipsis) would have played next, had Israel accepted Christ. She didn't, and He died 7 years early; so 84
was still a potential benchmark based on when He did die. So in Paul's accounting here, between
Christ's 84th and 91st year (get the pun on 91) -- the Rapture would have been within the original
deadline, even including Church.
Of
course, if we didn't mature (and we didn't), then the Rapture wouldn't occur, and the ENTIRE '91'
would have a different meaning, a new voting time, 21+70 as
shorthand for the new 1050. (So it looks like we should subtract 3 from
our AD dates, rather than add 3, but that doesn't work rightly, either. I don't yet know how to fix the problem.)
So
we start over with a new 21,
maybe 'get it right this time'. Therefore, Paul's 21 still means Temple
Building, but now like Israel's rebuilding, ours got delayed. So our next stop is syllable 94, the outside expected date, per the old Schedule. That is, if Church
Matured On Time. And if she
didn't by 94, then maybe by 105,
which completes another 21,
still stressing Temple Building.
This
next 21 is really a 28 (7+21), if Church continues; for the prior 7 which should have been the Tribulation,
presumably fails. For scheduled
Gentile time pre-Church, was 50; again, 33+50=83, so beginning year 84 Anno
Domini, was the ideal year of Church completion, per old schedule. So if 84 fails, Church has another shot at
21; but now it sums 28 (7+21), sign of previous flunk.
Notice
how in each clause, the text ties to a Rapture occurrence, severally. Each clause can stand on its own, poetically.
After
syllable 105, is
the first eudokian clause, end verse 5. If Church lasted that long, she flunked Temple
Building twice. So instead of a 21, the preceding flunk requires 28, after the 105 mark.
Same accounting as Isaiah's, debiting 28 from his 490 tally in Isaiah
53. And, had we Matured instead,
look: first epainon
beginning verse 6: we'd praise the Glory of His Grace. In Person.
Now
notice that first epainon phrasing in verse 6 -- closing
the paragraph at 28 and 133,
respectively -- is generic, no stress on us AS the Glory of His
Grace, like verse 12. Paul knows Rapture
won't likely happen then. That's his
point. See, the Rapture is a body count criterion, as Paul will
explain, in Ephesians 4:12-16. Depends
on Church maturation to reflect Christ's own maturity, Eph4:13. So if Church went on that much longer,
there would be far more babies (Eph 4:14), than developed kings. Three more generations, to be precise. So as John would write in 96AD, Paul knew Rapture wouldn't happen on the old schedule.
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So note this well: the OPPORTUNITY COST of all that delay, got
much bigger. A kingdom isn't perfect, if its society is
imbalanced with too many kiddies. So
time must continue much longer. Thus
Paul sets up his first eudokian bookend, on how God will profit His Son,
despite delay. Again, Paul wants to stop
date-setters from drooling -- they
slobbered over Temple Down -- and instead, get them to focus on
CHRIST. Same problem as we have
today. It's okay to smile, now. The
whole point of Paul's meter is to remind believers that Rapture means GROW UP NOW, not drool like the Left
Behind nutters.
You
are to live every day as if Rapture can happen, since it can; you have no idea how many more kings are
needed to complete Church -- and what if YOU are to be one of them? What if the Rapture happens because YOU
mature? You don't know if you're the
LAST king to mature, do you. For God intended every believer to have the wealth
of the King, Ephesians 1:3d, en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei. So
you should focus on growing.
At
the same time you don't fret over Rapture, as the Thessalonians. The problem continued for them, as it does
for us. About 11 years later, Peter
encountered similar tension with believers, 2Peter3:9, so reprimanded them that
the Lord is NOT slow on His Promise.
Peter wrote 1 and 2 Peter from Babylon to Paul's audience (end 1Peter),
which was under the control of Parthia; Peter wrote due to and just after
Paul's 66-syllable mark here, had ended; for Paul had just been executed by
Nero, so Peter knew he soon would die. [Rome had just defeated
Parthia, with the latter constrained to tow the line. So Christian persecution stepped up in the
wake of Burning Rome, for which Christians were blamed. Paul was a casualty of the ensuing
persecution, in 'our' 68 or very early 69AD, kicking off the Year of the Four
Emperors.]
John,
of course, had no end of problems with believer defections, since when he
wrote, the Temple had been destroyed for a generation; the final pre-Church
Millennial '94' deadline came, yet no Rapture:
expected, at least seven years prior.
Ergo John writes, in 1John 2; and
of course above all, in 2 John and the sad biography of the seven
representative churches, in Revelation 1-3.
Thus new information was provided re eschatology, with the
double-door Rapture event itself in Revelation
4:1, undated; followed by, the Tribulation and Millennial sequences,
completing the Book -- told in Greek drama style, especially via trendy
choruses and mimes of Domitian's day (Rev 9, 11, 12, 13). Mimes, which burlesqued Christians.
The
defectors, became today's preterists and Replacement-theology believers. Truly easy to trace that changeover in the
so-called 'Church Father' writings, which are anti-semitic, bilious. So apostate, one hopes that the actual
writers weren't the people named as the authors (and
of course many scholars think the writers are much later). Just read their self-righteous vocabulary,
akin to goofball fake gospel of Peter, etc.
Bring Pepto-Bismol.
Paul
anticipated all of this. Satan did, too.
Some demon incited the Jews to petition Hadrian to rebuild the Temple. Hadrian refused, and that spawned what we
call the Bar Kochba rebellion, starting in 132AD. By 140 AD, Jerusalem will be razed, rebuilt as
a pagan Aelia Capitolina, replete with pig temple standing over the Holy of
Holies. Abomination, anyone?
So
beginning with the first eudokian clause at the end of verse 5, and the
first epainon clause in verse 6, Paul keeps up an annual tracking, but
now shifts to focus on the assets. For a Greek reader would know by those
clauses, that Paul bids him disregard Rapture drooling, in favor of.. eis
epainon. For a reader who cares
about God, wants a 'good report' when he reaches the Bema, which of course
happens immediately upon the Rapture.
So here's the pattern again, picking up now at syllable 147.
56 + 21+ 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 +
49 +
7 + 35 + 91 (nested
91's)
56 77
84 105 133
147 175 231
238 252 301
308 343 434
At
syllable 147, we've gone another 14 syllables=years, in the conventional metric
style. Now we end the first '91'. That's shorthand in Mosaic style, for both an annual
chronology (from 56-after-Christ), but also, shorthand for a whole
1050. For Moses used 70's as sabbatical
shorthand for 1050; but now that the Gentiles are grafted in, and
evocative of the total number of years Israel's sabbatical observance BOUGHT
for the Gentiles, Paul updates the 70, to 91. Clever, huh.
So
Paul in effect says, even if the Rapture happens 1050 years from when he
writes, we are still in the Beloved, and graced out, even while down here. The 14,
stresses nexus -- for Christ
is the NEXUS of History; the '91'
ends with Him, and of course his own 14
ended IN Him -- seven years owed on His Own Life, and the other seven as the
Tribulation -- hence Paul's clever verse
6 close, en toi agapemenoi. And
had Church raptured up by then, it would be poetically timely, for that 91 is
+70 after, 77 (56+21). Vote Successful.
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Our
next stop is 28 syllables later, at the 175 total; here Paul benchmarks Moses again. Notice first, that Paul repeated the 28, since its theme is, repeat the time flunked.
Paul first benchmarked Moses, Isaiah and Daniel at their own syllable 133's, which closed the first 28 paragraph, of Paul's own meter. Here's what those passages said:
o
Daniel 9:7, technically ending at
syllable 182, but Daniel uses differences between, to tag Isaiah 53:2's
ending; so the difference is 133. Daniel
9:7 essentially reads, To You, God, all Righteousness; but to us, shame-of-face
this day: to all Israel, wherever she is, near or far, living in Jerusalem or
scattered around the world as you'd sent her for her disobedience.
o
Isaiah 53:2's similarly reads, No
Sight of Him, will we desire, ending at his own syllable 133.
o
Psalm 90:7, is an Adamic-period testimony. It reads, For we end in
Your Anger; in your wrath, we are
apoplectic; again ending at his own syllable 133.
o
Paul's syllable 133
thus antiphonally reads, eis epainon doxzes tes charitos autou. Redemption of the Judgment: thus answers
all prior text in each of the three OT passages, all the way back to Adam. Meaning? Romans 8:28, God will make it work
to Glorify His Son. Covering both the
Jews, and the Gentiles. Both near and
far, wherever they were or are, God Works Out Everything, and Glorifies His
Son. Clever use of meter, huh. Tells you concurrently the trend of future
history (same ol' same ol'), as well as what God does (hooray). Just as Daniel recited, too.
o
So now, in syllable 175, we have the same style of play, but only Moses
is tagged. (The 175's in Daniel or Isaiah are on the very same topic, but
their clauses don't end at that point; leaving some of the sin, 'outside'. So,
they are not tagged, here.)
o
Psalm 90:9 is the Noahic testimony. It reads, For all our days turn in your
fury (play on 'Hebrew' = "overflow", which Dan 9:11 plays
on: we hebrewed away from your Torah) -- all our
years, with a groaning sigh.
Yeah, ending at syllable 175.
o
So notice how Paul's syllable 175 clause, 'responds', end Ephesians 1:7: ten aphesin twn paraptwmatwn. Is that clever, or what! So we're still groaning, alright, but sighing
with relief! Ahhhh, forgiven! Flooded, still.. with Forgiveness! Instead of killing waters, Living Waters! The world's story, meanwhile, hasn't changed
since the Flood.
o
Notice that started a new 91, in
Ephesians 1:7, and this new paragraph ends with aphesin, the third
clause of the verse. So Paul's 175 marker, completes a 28, not a 21, again making up for the previous flunk. And, had the Rapture then occurred, how apt:
for we'd be in our new perfect natures, holy and blameless. The Ultimate Forgiveness, applied. In other words, believer, forget
date-setting; concentrate instead on growing up; so YOU can get this relief,
don't end your own years, groaning! Believers in Paul's day, knew this
syllable-counting technique. Paul has
already made many tagging references, so believers are tracking to all three
passages. So they'd get this doctrinal
message, loud and clear.
Now
we're in the last clause of Ephesians 1:7, and instead of repeating a 28 again, Paul doubles it to the famous 56. Warning Bill Robinson, Trouble Ahead. Yeah, no kidding. Commodus would soon come to power, ending the
Antonines. Within a generation later,
what we call the RCC would form. Church
would then have lived for double the initially-scheduled 50 years for
the goyim pre-Church, plus the failed-to-occur, Rapture (84*2+7).
So if we flunked the 28 yet again, the 'price' of delay, goes far
higher. The 56, made even more pregnant
by the fact the initial 56 represented Christ; His own 56 completed with
the 14 owed Him -- but us? Um, it's
not as if God didn't give us enough assets.
How depressing.
So
Paul now ends Eph 1:7 -- kata to ploutos tes
charitos autou -- reminding the reader of
verse 5's doxzes tes charitos autou, stressing RICHES. For again, the huge cost of all those
added souls to be made Church, with too many of them babies, requires Church
continue. It's good news for the
world, in a way. But the SIZE of the
cost! Christ had to pay on the Cross!
So the Asset He Became and thus BOUGHT, means.. We are ever more apostate and hence
expensive, each generation we live.
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147 175 231
238 252 301
308 343 434
Accordingly,
verse 7 had listed the second and third eudokian
assets, apolutrwsin and aphesin, Paul having kicked off the list
with the most astonishing asset, epainon, back in verse 6. Note by the end of verse 5 with eudokian,
he abandoned tracking to Rapture dates;
they'd all been passed. So in verse 7,
the reader's attention is on The Lord Jesus Christ.
So
this next paragraph thus ends 56 syllables
later in verse 9 at 231, with
the second eudokian clause.
Notice next that this paragraph is about what? musterion. The Thinking of Christ was Hidden from
history, prior, since He hadn't yet Come.
So Paul tags no OT passages.
Instead, he stresses Church has
His Thinking, though here in his timeline, Church is in a state
of vote short.
231: the Lord would have been 231 years old, 33
sevens. That's a poetic time for
Rapture, right? Okay, so the next 7 syllables, ending verse 9 at 238 syllables,
presume a Rapture at the beginning, and Trib over by the end. Here, he brings back the tie to the Jews.
First
ponder the wry last clause of verse 9:
if Raptured at that point, we'd have been proetheto'd = set
before Him, even as He was set before us. Sea of Glass, later coded in Revelation 4,
but first coded by Paul in 1Corinthians 13:12, 2Cor3:18. Of course, that was the face-shining update
on end Numbers 6, Moses having to wear a veil because his own face shone from
seeing God face-to-face. [Exod. 34:29f, 35; Matt. 17:2]
Since
proetheto is a technical word -- offering food to God -- it evokes OT
practice. Of course, if we had been
Raptured up at that point, we'd see the OT people face-to-face, too. Real Temple observances, this time,
Revelation 4. And there we are, presented before the Throne of His
Grace, at the Bema, sea of glass getting our rewards or demotions.
Here Paul tags syllable 238 in Psalm
90:12, Moses' own testimony: make us know how to number our days, and
have hearts of wisdom. It was a
very famous line. Of course, the whole
Psalm was on that subject, metered.
Paul, using the same meter for the same panoramic purpose.. tags Psalm
90:12.
So if not raptured yet, we've got this Preview Of Coming Distractions, so we
know Church is Going Down. Paul counts the years, for us. So we know when
it goes down. Starting, back when he
doubled the 28's: when Commodus came to
power. For as soon as John was
exiled, Roman apostates got busy -- they didn't even wait to see if he'd be
released -- 1Clement made a bid to usurp the Corinthians, while John wrote
Revelation. Starting then, entrenching
about 100 years later, under Commodus.
Interest in the Bible's Greek had declined; only religious 'elites', studied it. A translation was preferred.. or no Bible at
all.
Yeah,
count your syllables to count your days, with or without Rapture, for each day
counts! But Christendom had settled into a comfortable
anti-semitism. If there was any doctrine
the Jews espoused -- like Hebrew meter, for example -- it MUST be a lie. So high the antipathy, Passover would be
masked: now you can't count three
days and three nights. So those
folks weren't counting the meter here, or they'd see themselves. And repent.
And,
were we Raptured then, we'd have those hearts of wisdom, New Covenant
realized for all of Church. The Trib
believers suffering below, will exactly know how to number Israel's days: start
counting the days when you see the Two Witnesses in Jerusalem telling
everyone the Trib has begun. Then day
1222-1267, if not before, you GET OUT of Jerusalem, difference between
1290 and 1335, in Daniel 12. For the
Witnesses will be killed on day 1260, Rev11. That leaves a week for the aftermath of the
earthquake; to compensate for
loss-of-face, the government will swiftly install a talking statue on the
Holy of Holies, Rev 13.
We
are the Bridge to their Time and the Blessing By Association to their Time,
since no Church will be on earth and no covenanted-Israel, either. 1Kings 9 is still in breach, until the Second
Advent. So for them to be able to count
their days, we'd better count ours, so we grow up and thus constitute a
post-mortem blessing to them. (My
pastor stressed that bold text, when teaching Ephesians.)
Meter Note j Paul's Chronology Meter, cont. Go
to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
56 + 21+ 7 + 21 + 28 + 14 + 28 + 56 + 7 + 14 +
49 +
7 + 35 + 91 nested
91's
56 77
84 105 133
147 175 231
238 252 301
308 343 434
Of
course, if the Rapture didn't even happen by now, well.. what encore? Why should Time continue? How
about, to Defeat Satan in the Trial
via Church, using Her to Bridge Time?
So Paul launches into that, next. He'd hit the readers between the eyes with
the first eudokian and epainon
clauses back in verses 5-6.
He'd then launched into the epainon asset,
the Redemption Asset, the Forgiveness
Asset, RICHES the strong theme, end verse 7; he continued it with the all-wisdom-and-clear-thinking
asset, much epainon'd by Greeks, verse 8; then above all, the Hidden
Now Revealed to them, Christ; so what need to drool over the
Rapture, verse 9; so he'd appropriately
closed verse 9 with the second eudokian
bookend, and whapped them between the eyes with a hypothetical proetheto Rapture, end verse 9.
So
their own eyes now, at the beginning of verse 10, envision Standing
Before Him. Yikes. With all those assets, did we grow UP? Yeah.
That's exactly how he wants them to think, for verse 10.
So now he hits them with Wrap up
Estate Management of Time itself.
Give Birth to Time. Get
drooling about that.
Verse
10 is 14 syllables, a nexus, ending at syllable 252 outside the 91's, as you can see
above. Time. All Time.
Parallel to the Lord's own 14. We saw in Pregnancy
1b, that up to verse 10 Paul also depicted verses 7-9, as Christ down here, Himself Built Up in
the very Assets Paul lists, with Forgiveness as His Attitude; not Him naming
sins, but rather forgiving them as they occurred, especially against Him. So He was The Nexus Of History, so
it's appropriate that His Body, Wrap Up Time.
And
they better get drooling; for by using 14,
Paul tells them that year 239-252 might be the End of Time. Church will be that low on votes. We look back now, whew. But whoever voted then, they were stars.
Maybe a washerwoman or a duke.
Only one was needed: just one
Abraham, Noah, Moses. Someone unknown, though;
Satan won't let the mature, obtain first-class press. Only retards stumble on fame, in this world.
So
what was going on, back then? For the
Romans it was a time of great instability, as one general or senator after the
next tried on the purple; typically
helping to remove, the guy he replaced.
So few Christians matured; Lev
26 and Deut 28 say that when we grow, times are good. They weren't good. So we weren't growing. Religion was entrenched in North Africa, the
Mediterranean. Religion profits from
instability: always childish, and run by
children.
Have
a peek at what Paul presaged by 14 = Time might End Here, if your copy of Gibbon isn't handy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century
. Rehearsal for the Dark Ages.
Those
are historical trends of a four-generation flunk (four
28's). Paul was the worst sinner in
history per his own testimony to Timothy, 1Tim1:15. Yet he supermatured in 68-44AD, 24
years. Yet we don't. So, there's Housecleaning. It 'plays' as war, migration, invasion,
disease, even prosperity; due to upheaval, people make money from the misery.
This
Time Wrap-up Verse warrants OT tagging to accentuate meaning. After all, maybe God told
Paul of apostate Christians claiming Dispensationalism a fabrication of the
19th centu-ray; claiming too, that some
woman then invented 'Rapture'; never mind the Old Latin Bible translated
1Thess4:17 with rapto for Greek harpazw. The Big Rape. Snatch Up.
So,
Paul tags syllable 252
in Daniel, Isaiah, Moses. Paul timed his syllables for just this
purpose. For,
o
Differential syllable 252 in Daniel
9:13, represents the year he prays, which
o
Isaiah wrote and Daniel used as a stopwatch, seven syllables = years = hifph'gi into last clause of Isaiah 53:6 aka 538 bc since
o
Moses' syllable 252 was
his own vote during his own voting period, Psalm 90:13: Return, Oh
Lord! How Long! Have Mercy on Your servants.
So, He did. Each of
these voters saved Time. Everyone knew
that. So Paul pegs syllable 252, reminding his readers What Time it is. Time to
Vote. Time Hangs On How You Vote. No Moses vote, no Exodus. No Isaiah vote, no Book of Isaiah to tell us
What Time it is, so there'd be no Israel, post-Manasseh. No Daniel vote, no Temple, no Israel, no
Messiah, and we'd never exist.
Meter Note j Paul's Chronology Meter, cont. Go
to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
56
+ 21+ 7
+ 21 + 28 + 14
+ 28 + 56
+ 7 + 14 +
49 +
7 + 35 + 91 (nested
91's)
56 77
84 105 133
147 175 231
238 252 301
308 343 434
So
when Paul writes verse 10 to match this climactic syllable 252 reference, eis oikonomian tou pleromatos twn
kairwn -- using culturally-evocative words of pregnancy and a cannibalistic
Chronos -- the readers were probably stunned. Think about it:
o
You get all these assets developed in Christ
Himself, now to be developed in you;
o
You get to know Him more intimately than any
other believer in the past;
o
And as if that weren't enough, your own
development will be used To Wrap Up Time.
Bring it to Birth (pleromatos).
So
if you were a fishmonger sitting in the congregation while the teacher read and
explained the letter via his 'gift of knowledge' or 'faith' (both
meaning of Canon, before it was all
written down), your jaw would drop and everyone would smell
your fish-breath. The senator (let's
say) hosting the gathering would tear his toga as a gesture of humility, but
more as a way to release his own shock;
the veiled women would wail or cheer at the pleroma analogy, see,
you men can become pregnant, too;
and of course any of the huffy religious types in the audience -- which
had to be large, this was a letter from PAUL -- well, the religious types would
stomp off, freshly armed with new accusations against that heretical Jew
formerly of their clan, hoping G-d
keep him in prison till he rots. One thing you would not be,
is neutral.
Obviously
many questions would ensue. Paul
anticipated them in the balance of verse 10, via an eight-syllable Head word; Paul next sweepingly classes
the Trial issues Wrapped Up by Church
Time. All of which are under the Head of
the Body -- remember 1 Cor12, people! --
Everything In Heaven,
Everything On Earth. Is
that Trial Scope big enough, ya think?
Enough to stop you from drooling
over whether that new military coup in Rome, presages Rapture?
(Claudius had been poisoned; a young Nero now ruled.)
Notice
that verse 10b commences a new 91. It runs
a pregnant 49 syllables; it terminates,
with the dramatic second of the Temple Trio, prothesin. By its end we're at syllable=year 301 from Christ's Birth. 43 sevens. Likelihood of Rapture at this point is almost
zero -- or almost 100% -- because a
Church lasting that long is way too full of babies devoured by false
doctrine. Which we know from history,
for this is the time of Empire fracture, tenuously held together by Diocletian;
during 306-311 there were eight designated emperors, in a desperate bid
to keep Roman armies and factions, united. The eventual winner, was
Constantine. Persecution of Christians
was at an all-time high. Because, we
weren't growing; so Satan got to mess with us.
We were quite numerous, enough to bug everyone with our piety. Enough apostate, for Constantine to use in a
bid for political power, and thus create the Harlot of Revelation 17. So indeed, Time could End. The Temple Rebuilding gambit of Revelation 11
was just about to play again, once Constantine came to power; for Constantine
apparently had some desire to rebuild it.
That desire would recur in his successors. Fake Church, Fake Temple, stage for
Tribulation set. Satan had a good
thing going.
So
Paul switches from 56, to 49. To remind
readers of the Diaspora Israel incurred due to her apostasy, prompting Daniel's
prayer in that 49th year, back at syllable 252, already
tagged. In short, Paul presumes
Church will keep flunking, ergo a new 91.
So
syllable 301, is a bad report card. Church Flunk. Contrast between the High Purpose, and our bad
report. Of course, history well
corroborates this outcome. By the 4th
century AD, Christianity had fixed into what we now call, 'catholic'. Paul treats
Church in a Diaspora, herself. Hence 49. Accruing only a 7, here;
since that 7 still stands for Trib, Rapture is now depicted as
due to believer failure. In any
failure period, a few spiritual giants always are created, viz., Daniel. So indeed the right number of kings can
still mature, at which point the balloon goes up and Trib begins. [This is not to single out Catholicism as the
lone apostasy. There were many
forms of apostasy, which is Paul's point.
Just so happens that the 'catholic' flavor won political dominance, and
was the most anti-semitic.]
So Paul here creates a Bad-Church Rapture Cause scenario, again setting up
Ephesians 4:13 versus 4:14. Showing the
two sides of 'Rapture', a) when we mature enough, and b) when we don't. The prothesin takes into account both
a) and b) options. So in either event,
the Rapture will happen; but it can
happen due to Church maturing en masse, or due to the mass apostasy, but the
kings nonetheless mature. Our
Choice.
This
is the flipside of our high position and assets. God will still work it out. The Body will still Complete. But each one of us as individuals, how will
we Vote for God? With everlasting,
post-salvation consequences. Paul thus
reminds the readers of 1Cor3.
Meter Note
j Paul's
Chronology Meter, cont. Go
to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
56
+ 21+ 7
+ 21 + 28 + 14
+ 28 + 56
+ 7 + 14 +
49 +
7 + 35 + 91 (nested
91's)
56 77
84 105 133
147 175 231
238 252 301
308 343 434
Are
you surprised that Paul's next stop is syllable 308, verse 11c, God Works out all things,
theme of Romans 8? 44 sevens? Pregnant number of testing? If the Rapture didn't happen at that point,
well.. God voted. Notice that it will be
followed by 35. Do you remember what 7+35
is? GENERATION
BUILDING. Specifically, the 9th generation's beginning (count
as a generation, each number over 21, or
add two contiguous numbers to get 21+, like 14+28 ). What was it God said back in Leviticus, how
you don't eat from the first four crop years but from the fifth, when
you enter the Land, Leviticus 19:23ff, 23:10ff?
Back-ended harvest! Us!
Switch
now to 35= half of a vote,
God's. It begins in verse 11d, kicked
off by the last eudokian clause, which kicks off the second epainon
clause, which kicks off the third Temple Trio.
Triple-play! Yet Church is
still in toilet-training, by Christ's 308th
birthday. And still is, by his 343rd Birthday, the end of the 35, ending with proelpikotas.
Toilet
Temple = Church is easily proven from history: look at the many fake Gospels
pandered, silly practices, rituals, stories, visions, dreams, pictures, all
doo-dooing in that horrible Constantinian era!
People disdaining Bible, so stupid about what it says they even debate
whether Christ is God, or God is Trinity???
Instead, killing each other in the Circus Maximus, sitting on poles or
mountains like hermits (oooohhhhmmm here), starving themselves to 'suffer like
Jesus', all manner of goofy observances.. and they called themselves holy! Who's worse?
The Greek Orthodox brand of silliness, or the Roman? The anti-semitism is dripping
from Chrysostom, soon to be born.
He sure stayed a baby, too.
Look
at the bilious writings of the Church Fathers or the Greek Orthodox mystics, throw-up-here! They quoted Bible as if it were diarrhea,
and didn't seem to understand a word in it! Come on:
can't you guys count to THREE?
Mary a perpetual virgin? James allegedly living inside the Temple,
unwashed? John running screaming from a
bathhouse at what had to be age 110 or later, because a heretic was bathing? Bible never says he left Patmos, and he
had to be nearly age 100 when there. The
list of their silly fables goes on and on in the Patristics. Yeah, fathers of doo-doo!
I'm
slowly making a Youtube playlist on these guys, but it's mostly audio, still;
called PopeMyth (PopeM as moniker), which you can access on Youtube. Video descriptions have the audio as links. Better still, read the Church Fathers
yourself, in their own chatty words, see what Scriptural dolts they were --
assuming they actually wrote the tripe pandered in their names. You can't praise those writings with a
straight face or honesty. You must be a
hypocrite, a liar or just plain stupid, to praise that junk. Religious people like it. They have no discernment.
The
'catholic' flavor, whether Eastern or Western, was by no means the only flavor
of apostasy. By this meter, Paul shows
why the Rapture doesn't happen; or if it did happen, that christian failure would trigger
it. Religiosity substitutes for Bible
learning and living; frankly all the denominations are infected with it, not
merely the 'catholic' brands. When
Christians make a stink of their subgroup -- just as Paul warned back in 1
Corinthians 1:11-13 -- they manifestly become a demon nation; Christianity
itself becomes a series of competing football teams. Learning is not pooled; theological advance stagnates;
inter-Christian pogroms occur, instead.
Thus has been our history. That's
why Time continues. And, why it will
end.
God
will make it all work out anyway. God
Will Keep Voting, though Church Will Not. That's the story Paul tells, at this
point: the trends of Church history. So Revelation 1-3, is already proverbial to
those familiar with Paul's meter. But
not, to us. The few then get
harvested, from this point forward; so Paul also switches -- in a triple play of trebled or seven-metered anaphora -- to the last of the
Temple Trio by the end of that 35, proelpikotas.
The few. In front. The early crop who matured. Individuals.
My
pastor didn't know about this meter, but he harped constantly on the subject
matter you've just read. He got it from
the text, which of course, one can. He
kept on reminding us that only the kings
need be developed for the Rapture to occur. All this, from Ephesians. He called those maturing, 'spiritual
atlases', and 'invisible heroes', and unlike anyone else I can find anywhere,
he spent 12 whopping years developing the exact mechanics of the spiritual life
you can live and use daily, and test how
you're growing. [My
'Spiritual Maturation Process' videos summarize that 12-year material. Some folks who've heard it and are under the
same pastor, claim it's accurate. But any summary is nothing like the
original. Go get his 1992 Spiritual
Dynamics, see for yourself.]
Meter Note j Paul's Chronology Meter, cont. Go
to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
56 + 21+ 7
+ 21 + 28 + 14
+ 28 + 56
+ 7 + 14 +
49 +
7 + 35 + 91 (nested
91's)
56 77
84 105 133
147 175 231
238 252 301
308 343 434
Have
you noticed, Paul uses the same future-history meter tracking style as in
Isaiah 53, yet Paul does not individually tag the OT syllables, anymore? He's always in the general 'vicinity' of the
chronological-meter-use of Temple Down,
in each Daniel, Isaiah and Moses; but
the syllable benchmarks don't match, now.
Always one or two off. You can
guess what that means, right? Church is
off-track! Daniel did the same thing
with his meter: always 1 or 2 away of being divisible by seven. Check it out, if you haven't already: http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.pdf
So
Paul now STOPS subdividing meter. God's
'35' vote ends it: ends verse
12 at the 343 syllable mark, stressing
that it's all about the proelpikotas, now. End of tagging, end of subdividing, end of the
third 91. So all those hyping the era
of Constantine, will be embarrassed at this bad
report card from God. Scripture
already defined itself as Canon, it didn't need human help. Still, that tells you how bad things were,
that people had to argue over what IS Canon, too. And, they did take some care to preserve it, but
I'm sorry, Constantine ordering 50 copies isn't nearly enough. The idea was to garner control, anyway. To say who was the 'official Christianity',
and confiscate the opposition's texts, etc.
It was not the salutary time we've been sold. So much for their unwarranted pride over that
time. It's disgusting, how we
Christians laud what God condemns.
The
final, poignant 91,
verses 13 and 14 inclusive, tell us Which God is Voting, too. The Spirit. So while Church Corporate repeats its
babyhood theology generation after generation, revealing just How High A Salvation Cost Christ
must have paid on the Cross -- a cost we
don't even know, since we think Matthew 16:18 is about popes! Is there a bigger insult to Christ, than
that?
The
Spirit meanwhile develops the few adults.
Many more babies are born during this time, so more adults are needed;
that's why Paul ends the passage at 434 syllables,
Daniel's 62nd week. Because, we're still in it.
o
That's why Paul -- imitating Daniel -- begins
praying, in verse 15.
o
Like Daniel, Paul first set up a metered section
which is 56 syllables short, showing Time Critical;
o
like Daniel, Paul crafted nested legal paragraphs
and a chronology via meter, which goes full-circle;
o
like Daniel, Paul's words on the surface sound
all nice and churchy about how Good God is to us --
o
but as you can see by now, that summary of God's
Grace is likewise an indictment.
o
God Faithful, we Faithless. Same theme as Daniel's.
o
Like Isaiah, Paul did a full annual chronology
from start point to end point, and of course the end is a beginning.
o
Like Isaiah and Moses, Paul crafted his meter in
palindromes, with more combinations than shown in this document (I always miss
some); the palindromic nature of the
meter, matches the palindromic nature of the text, in all three passages. In English, it seems too vague. But when you know the underlying meter tracks to actual time, you see the
dual-entendre, realize each clause is a statement
about that time. Then you know,
what time it is.
o
So like all of them, Paul tags back to another
passage at its syllable count, whether symbolic number or actual number or
aggregate number or differential number (the latter, done by Daniel) -- always
balancing to what?
o
490, since it's still true someone must supermature, in
order for Time to Continue.
o
And for Church, when the day
comes that not even one believer will vote for God.. the Rapture happens.
o
See: 'Rapture' is not a happy thing. It happens due to our apostasy. We should be properly afraid, and GROW UP.
Ephesians
1:15-23 are an open prayer, my pastor kept reminding us -- there's no
'Amen', until 3:19 -- so the Eph1 prayer
either doesn't close at all.. or
doesn't close until Ephesians 3:19. In
between, are the Two Walls, the 'mystery', Paul's explanation of the
changeover. Two Walls. Not one.
Two Covenants. Meanwhile, 90% of
Christianity claims we took over Israel, not reading Ephesians and Hebrews very
well. Or maybe, not wanting to. People like their 'traditional' lies.
For
as Paul proves here and the writer of Hebrews says in Hebrews 11:1 and :39-40,
WE ARE THE TRIAL. WE ARE ON TRIAL. JUST AS CHRIST WAS. So Time is to be Bridged by Church. God the Holy Spirit will make it happen, and
at the end He will Cause each of the proelpikotas in each generation to
become The Very Glory of Him, verse 14, eis epainon tes doxzes autou.
Only then, in the final
quarter of the Year of Church,
however many years of quarters it takes -- in that '91', the Rapture
will occur. Not until.
Meter Notes Paul's Chronology Chart Go to: Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
SOURCES: Atlas Bury Church
Fathers DioCassius Eusebius Eutropius
Geog
(Rome) Gibbon Jerome Josephus Lanciani
(geog) Latin texts
Livy's History Magistri
Mommsen
Provinces NiebuhrVol1-3 Philo Bk 40 Platner
(geog) Pliny Jr. Plutarch Porphyry Rome's
Fake Authors Roman
Fasti recon Roman
plebs Socrates of Const. Seneca
Suetonius Tacitus
Theodoret Aurelius Victor Zosimus Z in
Greek/Latin [Note: other
sources are linked passim in Chart. Data conflict, so read several
sources. Chart links same name to multiple
sites, i.e., Chaps. VIII+ of Lactantius' Persecutors Died is
goofy; seek other
4th-century writers, too. My videos
on Paul's meter-mapping-to-history technique:
click here,
start with 11a in the list. I would
appreciate your input or corrections!]
CHART NAVIGATION: Conclusions Appendix I on anaphora timelines Appendix II on Diocletian's Death Date
ChronoChart V3 1-10 10-20 20-27 27-37 37-47 V4 47-56 56-66 66-73 73-77 77-84 V5 84-94 94-105 105-114 114-121 V6 121-133 133-141 141-147
V7 147-157 157-165 165-175 175-186 V8 186-195 195-205 V9 205-215 215-222 222-231 231-238 V10 238-252 252-260 260-267 267-275 275-283
V11 283-291 291-301 301-308 308-320 V12 320-334 334-343 V13 343-352 352-360 360-372 372-379 379-388 388-398 V14 398-404 404-412 412-418 418-425 425-434
Interpretation Notes
¨
Period is per Paul's own metered
use of Anno Domini dates. Since
Paul tracks to 'our' calendar so accurately -- same style as Daniel 9:4-13
benchmark Israel's kings --
¨
Rulers or Events here are listed 'raw' from our common bc/ad dates for those same years,
UNadjusted. I should always get a
3-6 year swing versus Paul's numbers.. but don't. Why?
Paul datelines his writing (verse 4, first clause) as
near or on, Christ's 56th birthday; which means, the beginning of his 57th
year the prior Chislev, or the following April (OT
regnal years begin in Nisan). If Paul
wrote just after imprisonment in Jerusalem, 56
fits; Tychicus could bring the letter later, the postscript
ending Ephesians, written then.
For here in Eph 1, all other years track to 'our' bc/ad, i.e., Caligula came to power in
'our' 37 AD. So I used 'our' dates. Finally, Roman AUC problems
date back to the 300's bc. A 3-year error added by Romans, offset by 3-year
error subtracted by Mom Church, is self-canceling:
so some dates coincide.
¨
Key Words and meter are
classically used to wryly describe each period. As in all OT prophecy, esp. Psalm 90, Isaiah
53, Daniel 9, even Roman and Greek drama, Paul too selects double-entendres, to
link (i.e., future) history beneath words. to get
the wit, interpret: you must thoroughly
know the history.
Paul's
wordplay bites, i.e., 'Father' also alludes to Augustus, Eph1:3. Augustus was deified, hence kurios (at
syllable=year 14, when Augustus died). Some allusions are obscure, sarcastic play on
Scripture. So yellow
highlights in the chart below, denote historical connections: keywords form wry chapter titles for the
period covered by a clause.
For
Christians in Paul's day were long accustomed to wry allusions, so would have
been alert to keywords for the 'future', as time passed. Such allusions were key features of all pagan
oracles, too. So the style was well
understood. Alas, Christians didn't long
pass that alertness onto their progeny, so we Christians today are woefully
ignorant. But Bible scholars well know
its usage. They just don't realize it's
a) tied to meter, and b) used prophetically in NT books other than
Revelation. Even Revelation, they allegorize
away: a sad sloppy precedence from Origen, forward.
Note
well: in Greek, Paul's words
could have been differently phrased, or presented in a different order, yet
have the same meaning. So the word
order deliberately ties to future history, after Paul wryly recaps the
past. The recap sets tone and alerts the
reader how to read the rest of the passage.
Paul's wit is sarcastic and biting, just as in Mark, Luke, James, John
and famous Greco-Roman plays. Bible text
has always used such a style. Its
purpose is instructive, even as drama has always been: stacks of meaning layers to show the
interplay between heaven, and earth.
Tells you how meanings FIT
TOGETHER; omnidirectional linkages of doctrines.
The Play: How Salt-Of-The-Earth Church, Causes History
For Better and Worse. Paul's
theme: Progressively Worse. So bad, that by Constantine's day only God
Votes Positive. Thus Paul alerts
Christians that Rapture won't happen for a long time, even though it can happen
any day. John's
Revelation talks back to this timeline, explains why Rapture didn't happen as expected by 91 or
'our' 94 AD, per the pre-Church schedule. (Rev
1:1-3 is dramatic prologue, metered.
Verse 1 is 58 syllables, dated from Christ's age at death = 91. It's divisible by 7 @verse 2, 84 syllables =
Psalm 90:4; Judaea had been a province
for 84 years, in 91AD; the same year was
26 years after Florus became (the last) procurator = verse 2's syllables,
alone. Rev 1:3 is also divisible by 7, @42. Total = 126, pregnant 70+56, playing off
'year': 365+126=490. 126=42 threes, or
18 sevens. Paul uses 18 sevens as
first bookend of eudokian anaphora; John
intercepts it. Paul's syllable 126 is eis
epainon doxzes. The epainon phrase ends at 133, but since John is
GIVING the Good Report, he cuts it at 126, to tie to Isaiah 53:1. He did the
same tie, in 1John1:2,3,5. Isaiah used
42 as his dateline, in the meter of Isaiah 1:1 and 52:13+14, which begins
Chapter 53 in Hebrew. Finally,
91+42=133, the end of Paul's 1st epainon
anaphora, when the Bar Kochba rebellion would occur.)
Verse |
Syllab |
Cum
Syllab |
Key Word(s) |
Period (AD) |
Rulers or Events for that period (underlined
text = hyperlinks) |
Comments |
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10 |
10 |
Worthy of Honor, Father! |
Syllable 1 = 1 ad = Christ Age 1 (Born
very end 2BC), and
also: o Octavian Augustus power
consolidation, tax reform. Res
Gestae. o
Livy was a contemporary historian. o
Herod dies, in effect legates his
property to Augustus. |
Opening, Greek Drama-style: Eulogy.
Pax Romana as God's Setup so people could easily
travel to Israel
and learn Christ. SPQR called
Caesar Augustus,
a 'father'; Christ called God, Father; we do too, due to Christ. |
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1:3, cont. |
10 |
20 |
Lord and Master |
Augustus is deified,
at
death; Tiberius becomes Caesar @ year 14. |
Christ as Lord Himself, Masters Himself
by adulthood. What SPQR called Augustus, now deified. What we call Christ. |
|
1:3, cont. |
7 |
27 |
Blessing (us) |
Tiberius, cont.; at end Pilate becomes procurator of Judaea (26 or
27).
Circa 23, Tiberius goes bad, due to Sejanus (Livia the Younger's alleged lover). Philo on
Jewish persecution
after Sejanus. |
World is blessed
due to Christ; world is blessed
due to Rome's stability; Judaea's many factions are subdued by switch to Pilate. |
|
1:3, cont. |
10 |
37 |
every spiritual blessing |
Christ Announces Himself @30, pays
for sins @33; @37,
Jews accuse
Pilate of bad administration, so Pilate
leaves for Rome to
face charges; while on his way, Tiberius
dies and the charges are either
dropped against Pilate or he doesn't get in much trouble. |
Christ's Ministry,
Victory, Seated in the heavens. Church
begins. Pilate even gets blessed. Paul converts the Year Christ died, and
begins his own retraining, here. |
|
1:3, cont. |
10 |
47 |
with those living in the heavens |
Caligula begins reign. Per Philo XLII
(334) vs. Josephus
Antiiq. XVIII.8.1, Agrippa stops Caligula from making himself a god in
Jerusalem's Temple; Caligula murdered
next, in 'our' 41 (Roman troops become kingmakers by assassination and
acclamation). Claudius then becomes Caesar, banishes
Jews & Christians from Rome. So in
47, Claudius hosts
Secular Games 47 years early, for Rome's 800th birthday. |
Caligula wants to
be a god in Jerusalem? Ok, the God OF Jerusalem gives him an apotheosis
of hell. Paul's ministry begins. Christianity caught on like wildfire, in the
wake of the Crucifixion. Rulers don't try to make themselves foreign temple
idols or banish foreigners unless those foreigners' ideas are VERY
popular with the locals. |
|
9 |
56 |
exzelexzeto: elected |
Claudius dies in 54
(@end of link); Nero comes to power, age
17. He's the last
'Claudio-Julian'. Seneca is his
advisor. |
Claudius elects
to banish Jews and Christians, so God
elects to banish him, too. |
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1:4, cont. |
10 |
66 |
kataboles; founding |
Paul released (62),
but then Fire of Rome (64); but there had been many. Nero
blames Christians,
begins persecution. Same year, he has
an amazing victory
over Parthia, and forms a bond with its rulers. Parthia at that point controls Babylon,
where Peter and many Diaspora Jews and Christians live. The persecution of Christians, eventually
reaches Parthian territories. |
Nero re-founded
all on himself, changed city names, calendar, etc. 66
is the earliest expected Rapture Date: Christ would have been dead
as long as alive; 7 years before the Temple
would have stood 40 years post-Cross.
Ties to the 33 and 7 divisions in
David's Rulership. So, based on
Daniel 9, both a siege by Rome and Temple's razing to its foundation, was
expected, by 66. |
|
1:4, cont. |
7 |
73 |
hagios: holy |
Nero executes
Paul and then himself, 68; Year
of the 4 Emperors, ending
with Vespasian, 69,
replete
with 'holy' claims he healed people.
Temple
destroyed, 70;
rebellion
and Titus' siege of Jerusalem, 64-70 or 66-73 AD. (Varies by how one counts AUC. Josephus versus Tacitus, on
whether Titus meant to destroy the Temple. ) |
'founding' from previous clause still
ties. For Rome is shaken to her foundations,
by the Year of the 4 Emperors. For the Rapture was expected
when Temple fell, long known to be 40
years post-Cross, an
excuse Josephus even used, to save his life before Vespasian. [Chap.8, s.9.]
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1:4, cont. |
4 |
77 21 |
amwmous: blameless |
Vespasian, still. 'Caesar' now means heir-apparent. |
77 would have been 7 years prior to
the 50th year after Christ's death, so Rapture was expected here, too. |
|
1:4, cont. |
7 |
84 7 |
kata: Before Him, by His Standard |
Vespasian dies in 79, Titus takes over, dies in 81, followed by Domitian, last of Flavians. Pliny is
historian, mentor of Suetonius;
latter is nearly same age as Tacitus. |
50 years after Christ's Death, Rapture expected to begin in 84 under old Daniel
9 timeline. So our 'standard' of how God ought to behave, wasn't met. So
we get Domitian's. :) |
|
10 |
94 |
proorisas: foreordained |
Domitian, still. He banishes
or restricts Christians due
to expected Messiah, i.e., John, Rev 17:10: count from after Nero, when the last Bible
books went out -- Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus = the prior 5. |
Last expected Rapture date, should
have been when the Millennium started, by 94. Christians turn
anti-semitic. That's how apostate they
had become. |
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1:5, cont. |
11 |
10521 |
huiothesian: Sonship |
o
Domitian exiles John to Patmos in 96,
dies just afterwards. o
Nerva takes over, adopts Trajan, dies in 98; o
Trajan now
as Caesar, finishes Dacian war;
next, secures Nabatean Arabia. Golden Boy makes Golden Age. o
Trajan defers to Senate; keeps Nerva's policy of taxing Jews, vs. persecution. Christians are exempt, so
open to persecution. Trajan adopts don't
ask don't tell policy. Pliny (Younger) is contemporary. |
'Foreordained' still ties, now plus huiothesian: o
The Adoptive
Emperors. o Mass
Christian disaffection, apostasy when Rapture per pre-Church
timeline, doesn't occur. John writes
Rev to say why. o
RISE OF CHURCH FATHERS (of
apostasy). As soon as John is exiled, Clement of Rome and self-praising
Ignatius, claim a false doctrine of apostolic succession
(violating 1Cor15:1-10). They have no
conscience, even allege elderly
John would flee a bathhouse, to
avoid a heretic! |
|
1:5, cont. |
9 |
114 |
eis auton: into Him |
o So what happens? Ignatius advertises
himself AS Christian to GET martyred, ignoring Matt. 10:14; Mk. 6:11; Lk.
9:5. Christians
father falsehoods, crusade against other Christians, Rome, military and civil
service; so make
Christianity, odious to Rome. Insightful
article on years 105-133
re Trajan and Hadrian, why the anti-Jewish, anti-Christian policy. o From 114-117, Trajan
wins to Persian Gulf,
but is overextended (p.189). As he retreats, the new subjects (including
Jews), rebel. |
huiothesian eis auton: o
Emperors adopt sons into themselves, and God adopts sons
into Christ. Appendix I
shows its interplay. o
Christians adopt
nikw-laus, rulers-of-the-people
-- rather than conquer/ overcome via Christ -- o ignoring His many
warnings against all this. (Matt
20:25-26, 23:1-12, Mark 10:42-43; Luke 22:25-26; Rev 2:2, 6, 7, 9, 14-15, 17,
20, 24, 26, 3:5, 9, 12, 21; also Rev 17 .
Compare to 1Cor15:1-10, Gal 3:6-9, 1John2:4, 9, 14, 18-19,22; 2John 1:7.) First-century
summary and downloadable
here; read between the lines, that
biased but useful tracing, how Church apostatized, post-Cross. Its 2nd
century summary. |
|
1:5, cont. |
7 |
121 |
thele (soundplay on He wills) |
Trajan dies, 117, adopted Hadrian 3 days before; Dio
claims heirship was posthumous.
Here's
a map of what Hadrian inherited.
He gives up the Eastern lands Trajan
won. |
Trajan wills to persecute
Christians and adopt Hadrian; GOD wills for Trajan to die and adopt Hadrian, who maybe slacked off on persecuting
Christians. Plague in Rome at
this time. |
|
12 |
13328 |
epainon doxzes: praise of Glory |
Hadrian, still. Ends with Bar Kochba and adoption
of Antoninus Pius.
Hadrian goes mad, orders Romans die, which Pius stops. They praise him for that, call his rule the
Glory Days of Rome. This is the first epainon benchmark. 2nd is here. 3rd is here. |
Meanwhile, Rome praises herself, considers herself to be in her glory days.
with these 'Four [or Five] Good Emperors'. God meanwhile builds Church via
safety He grants Rome, and via Diaspora from Bar Kochba
rebellion. For the Diaspora enables Bible mss. preservation and distribution. |
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1:6, cont. |
8 |
141 |
echaritwsen: graced (us) out |
o
Bar
Kochba Rebellion (132-135);
Hadrian
seeks end to sedition. o
Hadrian razes Jerusalem and puts pig
temple on Holy of Holies. Rebuilt
city is named Aelia Capitolina (140). o
Hadrian dies in 138;
o
Antoninus
Pius becomes Caesar, o
as
he also adopted Lucius Verus, Marcus
Aurelius. |
Diaspora for Jews and Church.
God thus protects them against future
persecution, since a disbursed group, is hard to find. Jews are barred from the City except on Tish
B'Av. This helps protect them from
catching the plague. Refugees move
east or south. Christian
anti-semitism is high, proving Christian love of Word, is zero. |
|
1:6, cont. |
6 |
14714 |
within the Beloved |
Antoninus Pius, still. Golden Age
of Rome, in him. |
In the provinces or in Rome, Christians get some reprieve. But
instead of explaining redemption to pagans, anti-semitic Christians
like Justin Martyr are snotty in both discourse and print. They ¨
mindlessly
quote Scripture with verbal
diarrhea and BLATANT power grabs; ¨
'martyr'
accounts are haughty and goofy, full of
bloodlust. ¨
Apologies
and 'teachings' reeking with anti-semitism
and false doctrine
like 'almsgiving
frees from death'. Hmmm. I thought Christ's PAYMENT on the Cross,
did that? ¨
They
refuse military
and civil office, yet agitate for
rights to Caesar (not God); they
denounce others who also twist Scripture, as heretics. Christians thus invite persecution, despite
the tolerance policy of Pius. |
|
10 |
157 |
apolutrwsin: redemption. |
Antoninus Pius, still. Golden Age of Rome, continued. Pius 'redeems' Roman culture. |
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8 |
165 |
His Blood |
Antoninus Pius dies in 160; Marcus Aurelius
and Lucius
Verus jointly become
Caesars (sets
precedence). Church is divided, too; she greatly politicizes and fights
within herself. Loves to exaggerate
and bastardize
Scripture, make
up lies about Mark, Peter, Matthew, contradict Scripture regarding Mary, claim to be arbiters of
Canon. |
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1:8, cont. |
10 |
17528 |
aphiemi.. paraptwmatwn: debt
cancellation for our sins |
Beginning 166, Commodus, then age 5 (maybe the same age as Dio
Cassius), is named
Caesar. Also, plague (maybe brought from Parthia by Verus'
victorious legions), invasions and disasters in and outside
Rome, result in Roman mobs spontaneously persecuting Christians.
Commodus said he was a god to cancel
the past, begin Time anew. |
Of course we Christians were to blame,
Leviticus 26! We weren't using our debt cancellation assets of 1John1:9! Instead, we reflect the pagans' own
hypocrisy, and add new forms of our own, 'fathering'
apostacy, further. |
|
1:8, cont. |
11 |
186 |
ploutos; riches |
o
Commodus began co-ruling in 177, age 16. (The movie Gladiator is
inaccurately based on Aurelius and Commodus.) o
Marcus
Aurelius dies
in 180 at Vienna. o
Commodus was there, and immediately takes
over. o
Commodus
is famous for claiming his rule as the New age of
prosperity, for squandering money.
o
He taxed the rich, gave to the poor. o
Commodus believed himself a god of grace and
protection. So he didn't much
enforce the laws against Christians and Jews. |
Marcus had 13 kids! So he
wanted Commodus, versus the others.
It's a common theme of child-kings to imagine themselves gods, throw
money on games, the people, toys, make silly laws. (See the lives of Caligula, Nero,
Caracalla, Heliogabalus.) We Christians
squander our riches, too, not growing up in Christ;
preferring magic
and lies; Tertullian
and Athenagoras
appeal to Caesar, not God. So we
impoverish the world, and acCommodate a Herculean farce.
[Page 757-8 of my
hardback copy of M. Cary's History of Rome (XLIII) covers our
disinterest in the Greek; so it's easy to see why Bible interest went to
zero. ] |
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9 |
195 |
eperisseusen: superabounds |
¨ Ecumenism
begins at this
time. There is still no pope; but
rather, competing bishops, sects, factions.
See 'Church Father'
writings. ¨ Commodus murdered, 192.
Prior to that, he superabounded in
bankrupting SPQR for his own pleasures;
and superabounded in persecuting civic leaders in and outside the
Senate. Every office was for sale, as
Commodus left daily affairs to his superaboundingly-greedy subordinates, then
tossed them to the people for superabounding revenge, when those subordinates
were caught in their corruption.
So at last, his own sweetheart and his closest friends, murdered him
(it took several tries). ¨ Army elects Pertinax, then
murders him because he imposes sound fiscal policies and discipline, makes
SPQR solvent again, 193. ¨ Army then elects
highest-donative-bidder Didius
Julianus, still 193;
then murders him ¨ when a later (doubled) donative is bid
by Septimus Severus'
second wife, Julia
Domna, still 193.
Along the way, she similarly helps her husband beat his other rival, Piscennius Niger. ¨
Julia
Domna and her female
relatives, via their too-young sons, will dominate Imperial politics
until 235, causing 'the Crisis
of the Third Century' (235-284),
when Rome almost died. |
Get the wit here,
it's awesome: ¨ As CHRISTIANS superabound in falsehood -- anti-military,
anti-semitic,
clueless re
1John1:9, legalistic, do as they
accuse others, are goofy, legalistic,
petty
and superficial
-- the world gets a ¨ Commodus
who superabounded in wasteful extravagance, as he's too young to know any
better, ¨ is replaced by a superaboundingly-old pertinacious aka
stingy man who gets
Rome back on financial track in only three months; so he's superaboundingly murdered. ¨ Followed by a superabounding donative demand, didomi'd by (one of many) who
bid the most -- ¨ until outdone by a woman who doubled
the bid, ¨ whose superaboundingly-ambitious,
superstitious and Severe
husband picked her, sight unseen, based on her horoscope (and her money); ¨ who himself superabounded in setting
Rome right again, albeit with superabounding Severity.
¨ Problem was, their two kids superabounded in hatred for each other, with the result that
the older kills the younger while in his mother's arms, at his accession. ¨
So
the women will superaboundingly control Roman politics (pregnantly, hidden) until 235, ¨ when their superaboundingly-wise-though-young Severus Alexander, will be superaboundingly murdered for
yet more money, by his own troops. |
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1:8, cont. |
10 |
205 |
sophiai kai phronesei: wisdom and reasoned thought |
Reign
of Septimius
Severus. He makes son Caracalla a Caesar
in 195;
co-emperor, in 198. To fragment competition, Severus multiplied
army and jurisprudence, setting a precedent that ultimately split the Empire
due to its weight. Historians acclaim this reign as famous for its
wisdom and reasoned thought in Law, how it stabilized rule. |
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10 |
215 |
musterion;
hidden knowledge |
Severus dies in 211; Caracalla soon
murders his co-regent brother Geta; by 215,
his intimates try to murder him. Under
him, though, Severus' alleged proscription of Christianity is ignored; and in
212, everyone becomes a Roman citizen (so
they can be taxed). So Christians can hide better. The Severan persecution was against
holy-roller like activity (Montanism) by Christians claiming 'secret
knowledge' or 'oracular utterance'; the local populace reacted. |
Church keyword musterion is a
culturally-loaded term. It means
something KNOWN only to those within a group.
It's a play on pregnancy, too.
Paul couples the term with pleromatos in verse 10's first
clause. This
wry stress on motherhood shows the times were pregnant, which is Paul's
point, in verse 10. Christ
pregnant with Church on Cross, makes Church the deliverance of history,
Paul's same theme since Romans 8:11-28, and Galatians 4:19. |
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1:9, cont. |
7 |
222 |
thele (soundplay on He Wills) |
¨
Hindu-like, the idea of God as
one supreme Being, becomes suddenly popular among pagans; Christians expect
the Rapture. ¨ In 217,
they finally murder
Caracalla, and ¨ Macrinus -- career military -- takes
his place. ¨
"probablement
en mai" 218
-- Macrinus designates
his own son Diadumenianus
as co-emperor, and both are promptly murdered by the Julia sisters' bribing
connivance. For Macrinus didn't pay the troops as well.
¨ This buy-the-Army conspiracy results
in adolescent grandson Heliogabalus
made
Emperor in 218, at age 15 (age of manhood); ¨ Sun-baby is murdered in 222; replacing him is another grandson, ¨ Severus Alexander, newly toga'd, who Sun-baby was
constrained to adopt the previous
year. ¨ So each seeks his
own will and purpose; Julia sisters
plotted
to make Elagabalus look bad, to make Severus look good. |
Suddenly, Julius
Africanus invents a 'bishop list' claiming Peter in Rome, to help Demetrius disparage Origen in Rome; suddenly, the word 'catholic' is used to
say 'my' (Roman) church (Callistus')
is better than 'yours' (Hippolytus) .
See Bishop
Lists by Dr. Williams. Videos on his book, start here. 2nd euvdoki,an anaphora benchmark
begins; this is 'Crisis of the 3rd
Century', when Rome almost dies. Appendix I covers secular interplay; click here
for spiritual interplay. In 1st
benchmark , Paul tied eudokian anaphora's 2nd
e to
death of Trajan, then. So too here: Macrinus dies.
Stresses how succession REVERSES the deceased's WILL. Paul will do it again in 3rd (final) benchmark, for Diocletian's death at syllable=year 316. |
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9 |
231 56 |
eudokian: good will and purpose |
Severus Alexander's regents are gramma
Julia Maesa & his mother J. Mamaea; she proves to be a capable
administrator; she well trains her son for fit rule. (Sun-baby was the son of J. Soaemias.)
|
Alexander was pagan, but pro-Christian;
his Sun-god priestly mothers made him pious; so images of Abraham and Jesus,
accompanied his private devotions. |
|
1:9, cont. |
7 |
238 7 |
proetheto: set before, display, offer |
¨ In 231
Alexander's generals beat the Sassanids, in his presence. Another serve-up: Peter-suddenly-bishop promoting Hippolytus (who used the
Bishop List in 217-220's to garner favor with Severan mothers), plus his bishop-designate Pantianus, are exiled;
the latter is martyred. ¨ But next at Mainz, Alexander negotiated peace with the Germans. The
Roman army there felt insulted. So
they murder him, in 235; they acclaim their 62-year-old general Maximinus Thrax; next both Africa and the Senate revolt,
together offer four usurpers, in 238. The first two die in battle and
suicide; the remaining two Senatorial
appointees -- unpopular at home -- are
themselves dispatched by the Praetorian Guard there -- and another teenager, known as Gordian III, is acclaimed instead. ¨ So Max
marches on Rome; meanwhile, his besieging army at Aquileia is starving. ¨ So when he arrives there to relieve
them in June
238, they instead get fed by killing Max and his son. ¨ Since proetheto means to 'set a meal before someone' -- hence to 'make a public offering',
especially to God -- we see Paul's wry wit:
all dine on prostrate Rome,
ignoring God's Offer of His Own Son. For Christians TWIST
and mangle
Scripture to express how much
they hate Jews and
everyone else, instead
devouring each other in spiritual civil war; rather than, dine on CHRIST. So the 'Crisis
of the Third Century' is OUR fault: we eat from the wrong
table. For more proof,
here's our Church Father Hall of Shame. Setup, for a Decius.
For God must judge us when apostate, Leviticus 26, Deut 28. ¨ But again, a 13-year-old wins the Roman meal ticket, for a little while. |
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14 |
25214 |
oikonomia: estate management pleromatos: pregnant with cargo, on verge
of content delivery. kairwn: lit., 'the times', meaning TIME
itself. |
¨ Beardless Gordianus III gets Imperial meat until he's 19, and
then dies from illness or murder while on
campaign contra Sassanids, in 244.
¨ Army acclaims
Philip the Arab
in his place, with longtime Imperial manager
and brother Priscus, the likely orchestrator behind it all: the man who loved to tax Eastern cargo; a rector, hidden
from the publicity of Rex. But he
suddenly dies, unknown how. ¨ In 248,
Rome celebrated its 1000th birthday,
and there were usurpers, too. Gossips claimed Philip a Christian; under whom,
Catholicism ecumenized=oikonomia'zed,
enraptured with the lie she was to be an earthly power, too. ¨ In 249,
to dispatch the usurpers, Philip sent
Decius, a member
of the unfriendly-to-Philip, Senate.
The latter's army dispatched
the usurpers, but then acclaimed Decius
Emperor instead; so also dispatched Philip and his heir-appointed son. ¨ Decius begins the estate management of SPQR by courting the Senate, thus
claiming to return to the glory days
of Republican Rome. This
included reviving the office of censor,
given the much-respected Valerian in 251. Consequently, each person in the empire had
to furnish
written proof (libelli) that he sacrificed to the gods of Rome
(same idea as the loyalty oath of Octavian).
Since Christianity was an in-your-face, Let's-reject-Romans 11,
hostile-to-Empire political movement with ZERO faith in God, Christians were
targeted -- if not by Decius, then by the locals who had to administer this
law. For
God was punishing us. ¨ It's now 251.
Decius himself won't live long enough to see
the effects of his attempt to turn back time. He dies in battle or maybe murdered
during battle on
July 1: the Senate glorified him a tad too much, so
you can't be sure of any grief. ¨ Tearfully, the army appointed another
senator-general, Trebonianus
Gallus in his place; of course the Senate confirmed it. ¨ The 40-something Gallus, still warring with the Goths,
instead makes a too-quick-and-shameful peace,
then rushes to Rome, which suffers from the plague. ¨ Meanwhile, the Roman charged with administering the treaty (Gallus made) to appease
the Goths, Aemilianus
aka Aemilian -- reneges.
(Whether he
instigated the breach or was prompted to it by Scythian aka Gothic hostility,
is unclear.) He instead
defeats the Goths; so his grateful
troops proclaim Aemilian Emperor, instead. ¨ It's now 252.
Persians attack Roman garrisons
and defeat them. Stage set for another battle. |
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8 |
260 |
anakephalewsthasthai:
to sum up, bring under One Head |
¨ It's now 253.
The erstwhile censor Valerian
was then in Rhaetia; Gallus ordered him back south to Rome to
defend against Aemilian. August 253: Gallus' troops opt to kill him and his son Volusianus, and instead join Aemilianus. ¨ This prompts Valerian to march to Rome against Aemilian, and the troops under the latter, to
switch allegiance and kill him. ¨ So Valerian comes to power in
September of 253. ¨ Valerian then gets his son Gallienus ratified as
Caesar, and assigns to him the West.
This will change Roman history forever: the empire is now legally
divided. Thus God delivers Time: for Gallienus in the West, is
not disposed to persecuting Christians, or to giving the Catholic Church,
sole voice. In the East, Rome lacks
sufficient control; so Persia now
makes nice with anyone who will ally against Rome. So this division PROTECTS BIBLE IN THE
WEST despite a clergy
ignorant of the Spirit, substituting
Him with chastity and justifying
anti-semitism
even after Decius;
thus justifying a 'whirlwind' named Diocletian. ¨ Valerian himself then goes off to even up the
score with the Persians, but in 259-260 his troops are defeated by plague; hence he sues for
peace; instead, he is humiliatingly
killed by Persian king Shophur aka Sapor.
SPQR is too weak to revenge him.
So now divided SPQR, has only one
Head. Sorta. |
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7 |
267 |
everything in Christ |
This period covers Gallienus' remaining rule. It's a tangled tale. ¨ Rome breaks up into regions, each with its own
self-declared ruler. ¨ The plague
continues, too. ¨ So Gallienus is forced to innovate and
operate on interior lines. ¨ He expands the freedom of commoners to
hold higher military posts while curtailing that of the nobility to do the
same; he reinforces
this independence by creating smaller and swifter military units; ¨ he buttresses this with edicts
granting more freedom of religion,
versus his dad's policies. ¨ So he lets Gaul, go. ¨ He focuses on local popularity, and
sponsors lavish entertainment. ¨ Militarily, he gets welcome help from Odenathus of Palmyra, thus easing threats against
Gallienus from the East for the next five years. ¨ Odenathus is assassinated in 267, and his militarily-astute wife Zenobia takes over. ¨
As a result of all this fragmentation,
Christianity is free to grow. But of
course, Christians don't grow. But
Bible gets preserved. |
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8 |
275 |
everything in the heavens |
¨ By 268,
all these concessions by Gallienus prove too much for the Senate; so
they help the Praetorian guard, kill him in Greece. One of the likely conspirators, Claudius II 'Gothicus',
takes over. He will die of the plague
while on campaign against the Goths, which he finally wins, dying in 270. ¨ His designated successor, was
immediately contested. Soldiers replaced
Claudius' brother Quintillus with Aurelian, probably
with the latter's connivance. ¨ Barbarian incursions kept Aurelian busy in the field; other usurpers
with their own armies, kept him campaigning as well. Through a combination of negotiation or
military skill, he defeated rivals, ¨ but in the process reconstituted Dacia solely on the south bank of
the Danube, in effect abandoning its northern territory. That rankled his troops. Trajan fought (against Decebalus) more
than five years for that territory, at much cost to Rome. ¨ By contrast, in 272 Aurelian nobly bested Zenobia
in the East; ¨ then in 274, Tetricus in the west -- chafing under a female leader -- defected to Aurelian. ¨ Both vanquished foe having betrayed
their former allies, were rewarded with comfortable lives in Rome. ¨ Now Aurelian could focus attention on reforming the economic situation, having temporarily consolidated his
territory. To this end he reforms
coinage and worship to ONE god, Sol Invictus (introduced by Heliogabalus, for which cause the latter was
evicted from life). Thus
the heavens are claimed to be united, too. Sol's birthday is 25 December, which was likely Chanukah in 4 bc, when the Lord was born (Jewish calendar likely wasn't intercalated, as I
explained in http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm#HisBday). ¨ So that left him with a need to defeat
the Persians. He was on his way to do
that, when one of his secretaries who feared what the reform might reveal,
successfully plotted with others to murder Aurelian,
Fall
275. |
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8 |
283 |
everything on earth |
¨ In rare orderly fashion, Tacitus was
acclaimed and then affirmed by the Senate to replace Aurelian.
Then Tacitus died of illness or murder, just after
defeating the Goths again, in 276. ¨ After a brief contest, Probus becomes the
next Emperor that summer. Through a
series of either brilliant or at least plucky maneuvers, he manages to check
the many barbarian incursions and usurpers during his six-year reign. The last usurper, however, won over Probus' own troops , who kill him in
the Fall of
282. ¨ The last usurper's name? Carus. This latter immediately designates his two
sons Numerian
and Carinus as
Caesars, again keeping SPQR divided, with Carinus taking the
West. ¨
Under
them, is a temperamental, charismatic, superstitious man; in his youth, a gypsy prophesied he'd
become Emperor, once he killed a boar.
So this guy long dreamed he'd be
Emperor. His name? At the time, Diocles,
which in Greek sounds like steal, scoff, break in two. Or, if you want
to mix misspelled Greek and Latin, God-called. But later?
Diocletian. ¨ Diocletian's big goal in life
was to unite SPQR under himself. Everything
on earth. Click
here to download an insightful 1876 analysis, from Google. It's vital to grasp Diocles' mindset, as he forever stamped
Rome, and is the archetype personality Daniel 11 depicts. Click
here for another great book on the man and his times; or click here, for the
videos on the book. Paul carefully words Eph1:10-11 to focus on this
man's rule, so a) Christians know how to read Time and thus flee, plus
b) so we can appreciate God's Own Detailed Inheritance Plan for our
lives. Diocletian unwittingly
represents the worst of Satan's plan for the Tribulation, and the Best of
God's plan for our own free unity in Christ. It ends up a cyclical trend of history. ¨ So Diocletian personally dates his own
accession based on Carus' death, which perhaps Diocletian
helped cause, in 283.
Hebrew priestly course named 'boar' (17th course, Hezir),
started near July 20th. So
Diocles ho
hus gets to be huios.
So his former chief's sons, die as
strangely as their dad, in the months between Christmas 283
(Carus), and July 284
(Numerian, and Carinus soon after; later
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291 |
inherit |
¨ Per Diocletian's own standard, his rule begins Christmas 283, when Carus dies.
Diocletian claims December 22 as his birthday,
too. Cute. ¨ Diocletian is a totalistic, committed (and hence
autocratic), methodical and ascetic, temperamental and affable, stern and
superstitious man, married to a Christian sympathizer (and apparently in love
with her), surrounded by beloved Christian subordinates. He is obsessed with Empire, unity, uniformity.
He will thus end up losing all he loves. ¨ So he has an
elaborate inheritance plan, too. For that plan is to
have a co-emperor with him who does all the fighting, whilst he -- Diocletian
-- runs the empire. To that end, Diocletian straightaway appoints Maximianus, in 285.
Good cop,
bad cop. ¨ Diocletian next institutes massive reforms of every kind. He reorganizes military and political districts, first. He halves the sizes so doubles the
districts, bureaucracy;
constructs a perimeter of troop deployments, walls, fortifications akin to
the later Maginot Line. Italy --
except Rome and her prestigious suburbs -- is now taxed, too. (His governmental organization forms the model for the Roman
Catholic Church, which will ape his structures and even vocabulary.)
Top-heavy. Over-regulated. High maintenance. A kingdom of martinets. Founded on magic. ¨ Diocletian begins a campaign to gloss
over past history, like the cartouche-erasing Ramses; or, Augustus'
use of the Aeneid. ¨ To that end, he returns
to Roman religion
on a superficially-oriental model, making the Augusti, officials of
Jove (Diocletian) and Hercules (Maximian) -- so converse with them becomes
distant, rare, ostentatious. The idea
is to inculcate awe. ¨ Diocletian also sidelines the Senate, with a combination of adroit moves
to shift economic and political
strength OUTSIDE Rome.
His long-term plan is to base all key operations beyond the
Senate's grasp, while shallowly but sincerely, honoring them. Thus does the barbarian threat reduce, as
power spreads and comes TO them. But it serves to
fragment, Rome. That, of course, is
the main strategic goal. He
converted the Empire into
absolute rule. ¨ So Diocletian manages to spend less and less time IN Rome, a place whose
licentiousness, he abhors. Gifted
appeasements to the Senate, appeals to dignity, quietly halving the
Praetorian guard -- all the while, pleading barbarian incursions and usurper
threats as the raison d'etre.
Meanwhile, Diocletian diffuses military power via those many
fortifications and walls. Just as
Augustus, but with more palaver. For
Diocletian deemed himself a second Augustus. And the Senate, so long as it was honored,
willingly considered him one. |
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1:11, cont. |
10 |
301 49 |
Foreordained per Temple Shewbread Plan |
¨ Meanwhile, Maximian and his generals -- soon to become Caesars -- run around SPQR
fighting barbarians and usurpers. They
are too busy and surfeited with honor,
to officially rebel, themselves; so they bide their time, and undercut Diocletian's (often disastrous) designs in other ways. They reduce usurpations among the
troops; especially, in Britain (Constantius). ¨ In 293, two Caesars are appointed to
replace the Augusti in 20 years, retroactively based
on Diocletian's official 285 accession. Clever baking plan for all would-be Caesars; new
Caesars also had to appoint their own Caesars. ¨ To that end, Diocletian appoints both Constantius I and Galerian as the
Caesars. ¨
Constantius must
marry Maximianus' daughter Theodora;
Galerian must marry Diocletian's daughter Valeria.
Both Caesars had
women they had to set aside. Both
had sons whom the new wives adopted. ¨ This Tetrarchy (modern historians'
term)
provides each of the Four with his own territory;
Diocletian retains
supreme authority. Edicts are
jointly signed, and hold true for all;
enforcement varies. Constantius at times has Spain, Gaul and Britain.
Maximian has Italy, Africa. Galerius has mostly Germany (incl. West Russia and lands north of
Italy proper). Diocletian retains the East.
¨
Under
Diocletian and long living with him, is a young
apprentice: son of Constantius I Paleface, named Constantine.
Some historians claim Constantine was a hostage of Galerius. After Diocletian's retirement, he was hostage;
but not
earlier. Bet ya money, Constantine
was the son Diocletian wished he'd had;
the latter, was the father Galerius wished he'd had. So Galerius was jealous of anyone who
had Diocletian's affection. (How else explain
Galerius' insecure behavior, threatening Maximian and insisting on TWO unrelated 'Caesars' as HIS OWN appointees? Galerius must have been jealous. You can't call Galerius' first two choices,
good statecraft. He picked YES men. He was only entitled to ONE 'Caesar', but
wanted TWO. Petulantly.) ¨ In 295, Diocletian begins building
his retirement
home
in what we call Croatia. For he feels secure. ¨ In 301, He institutes a state-regulated
economy so that prices and jobs one can hold, are all
state-determined; it was preceded by coinage
value problems, hence an indiction
scheme. Such regulation ruins
the economy, creates
capital flight; the inevitable black market and tax evasion, all result;
it wasn't enforced, long. But Constantine
will continue most of Diocletian's changes. |
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7 |
308 7 |
God works everything together |
¨
In 303, whether premeditated or in a fit of
pique, Diocletian issues the first two of four edicts expressly
persecuting Christians. Here we get full insight into the
relationships. (The 1876
analysis of Diocletian persecution is well-written piece: I mostly stick to Mason's summary there, in
what follows.) Eusebius was
contemporary. Here is TD
Barnes' account: he divides this persecution in two phases, one in 299
and the other in 303. He also says
that Porphyry began writing at this time. Porphyry was a courtier. ¨
Impetus:
the superstitious Diocletian was getting
haruspices that (conveniently) the priests said were blocked, as 'atheists' (Christians) were
present. Maybe Galerius tried to separate Diocletian from his wife, daughter (= Galerius'
wife, whom he hated); and from his closest servants. As what drove Diocletian was UNITY, LOYALTY and COMMITMENT, he
was incensed; he demanded their
removal.. or participation. Some do,
some don't. He calms down, gets
oracular reply -- which of course conforms to
Galerius' position. This prompts upset but no retaliation, for Diocletian is loyal to underlings, too. So Galerius
is frustrated, and maybe sponsors a palace fire – in any event, he blames the
Christians. Diocletian rages; hence his trusted servants are tortured and
then killed; he compels his wife and
daughter to sacrifice to the gods.
Hence the edicts. King Lear
story, really. Purim story, too: for like Haman, they consulted 'the
gods', chose first Edict to begin on Terminalia (23 February 303); that would have been same week or even day, as
Jewish Purim. Second Edict was
promulgated by (next?) summertime. ¨
The edicts
become a model for the post-Constantinian Christian emperors and RCC
persecutions of Christians;
Constantine himself increasingly
adopts Diocletian's proscriptions, here against pagans and Jews; all
this, under instigation BY Catholics. Idea
that the 'wrong' faiths are unpatriotic; same raison d'etre, as
always in Rome. Muslims and Hitler,
will later emulate him. ¨
To
wit: any Christian forfeits all his offices
and if he has none, his rights;
all clergy are jailed;
worship assembly is forbidden; all churches are burnt, and
their property confiscated;
especially, all Bibles are to be confiscated
and burnt; anyone can recant simply by sacrificing to
the gods. The local constabulary are
empowered to do house by house searches, if need be. They were remarkably efficient. Almost
no Bibles or lectionaries from the period, survive. ¨
Torture
is forbidden, but
if a different crime is committed, torture and even execution may be used. So the locals egg the already-arrogant
Christians, to commit crimes like refusing to answer questions or badmouthing
the state. Then, they are tortured. Gruesomely. ¨
Galerius
and his allies will later form the other two edicts, which allow any kind of confiscation, torture or
execution, slavery,
etc. Targets are Jews and Christians. (Constantine and Sons too will eventually
adopt this at RCC insistence.) ¨
This persecution lasts largely until Galerius dies in 311, with periods of respite. Appearing to confess to his error as he
dies, Galerian's last edict
seeks to sow division into Christianity by defining only one
allowed VERSION of it. But his
dying gambit doesn't work. The
persecution never takes hold in Constantius' territory;
and is only intermittently applied everywhere else, to curry favor with Galerius (i.e., by Maxentius, Daza, etc). ¨
During
this time Tiridates becomes a Christian, thus Parthia becomes a haven for those fleeing Galerius
and Diocletian. ¨
In
304, Diocletian suffers
an illness that
might have been a stroke or even cancer, just after celebrating his 20th anniversary (based on Carus' death) with a triumphal-like procession, in
Rome. He is a broken man, afterwards. ¨
Diocletian
himself, thus retires in 305,
and makes Maximian do it, too. ¨
Also
during this time, the Tetrarchy and their designates, war with each other. ¨
In
306, Constantine manages to
escape his 'host' Galerius, fleeing to his dad in Britain, where
Paleface then dies, in York. The
troops acclaim Constantine
Emperor; since Diocletian maybe wanted that all along, Galerius is forced to acknowledge it. (Big
debate here, among scholars.) ¨
But
not without a fight. Galerius
first nominates
his own Caesars: starting with, a too-gullible Severus.
Diocletian
privately protests, but goes on tending his cabbages and Sun statuary. ¨
By
contrast Maximian, maybe fomenting or reacting (stories
contradict) -- comes
back to power when his own son Maxentius (married to Galerius' daughter!) rebels at Galerius' choice, still 306.
Italy -- chafing under
taxation -- is Maxentius' target;
both dad and son pretend allegiance yet wrangle
for power there.
¨
Galerius
sends Severus to put them down;
Severus is then tricked by Maximianus into surrender and open-the-veins
execution, 307.
This same Max then took his other
daughter (Fausta) to marry and thus gain support of
the armed-but-aloof Constantine.
He weds, talks nice, does nothing. ¨
So
Galerius advances to Rome himself, 307. Maxentius (like a later Stalin) used the huge territory between them to
logistically defeat Galerius
-- who furiously retreated home, wrecking
everything in his path. That bought a
little time, and apparently Maximian
returned to Rome in time to celebrate (or compete)
with his son. Panegyrics
reveal the propaganda of this time. ¨
Maximian then goes to Diocletian in November 308 and still gets no help, at
Carnuntum. ¨
Not
to be outdone, Galerius at that same
meeting, tries to curry favor with Constantine by recognizing him as Augustus -- this, (maybe) two years after
Constantine had already been Emperor of his territory, signing edicts,
etc. Clear hypocrisy. ¨
Galerius back in 305 had also crowned his
nephew, Daza (aka Daia); but now, après Severus -- Licinius.
Galerius wanted Licinius
to replace Constantine. Diocletian protested privately. Daza
got Palestine and Syria. Protecting the rear. |
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12 |
320 |
thele (soundplay on He Wills) His Own Standards of Delight, Will,
Purpose |
¨
3rd (final) euvdoki,an anaphora benchmark
begins here. Just as the eta in thelematos signified Trajan's death (1st benchmark, 117) and then Macrinus (2nd
benchmark, 218), with
surprising 'heirs' taking over instead; so too this 3rd anaphora pegs
the eta in thelematos =
316, when Diocletian dies.
Note how each deceased's successor
UNDOES what the deceased had intended.
Hadrian lost territory Trajan gained, but consolidated imperial
administration that Trajan almost lost;
against dying Macrinus' plan, the Julia sisters restored Senate
control and fractious leadership leading to civil war; now we see how
the Tetarchy dissolves the Empire within a generation after Diocletian's death, becoming a shell of
squabbling, power-mad, religious types.
All in the name of GOD... Click here
for the chrono interplay Paul depicts via this Triune eudokia anaphora. ¨
So
in 308, stage set for Constantine's takeover, and God's freeing Christians in
SPQR and Parthia. Eusebius writes about
him. ¨
So
now Maximian, enraged his own son-in-law Constantine won't help, returns to Gaul and tries
to kill him or returns because
Maxentius is trying to kill him.
That same link echoes the usual account that Constantine next catches
the old man trying to
assassinate him, then executes or (stories conflict) has
Max commit suicide, 310.
[Gibbon's story
differs (Chapter
XIV, p.353-4 of my 1880 set): says that while Constantine was away
fighting, Max
resumed the purple, seized Arles and its money, on pretext Constantine died. The latter rushed back, besieged Arles,
which then executed Max. But they told
people Max strangled himself. Barnes
says Constantine made up the assassination
story, too.] ¨
Maxentius thus consolidated his Roman base, got
control over his father's old lands. ¨ Then Daza declared himself Augustus, too. But he did not compete with Galerius or Licinius. (Some say
he did this just after Licinius was nominated; others, just after Maximian died. The latter
seems more plausible, as Galerius was then weaker.) ¨ Meanwhile, Constantine plays first version of his
in hoc bimbo game using
PAGAN gods, vision
of Apollo offering him 120 years victory! -- back in 310.
So hey: just change the
WHO and the sign, in 312. Sucker born every minute. ¨
Over
the course of a year, Galerius dies of genital
disease (look for [4] after the '40' in that
list), maybe like Herod's: May 311. ¨
[TD Barnes and some others argue Diocletian died later in 311 (or 312);
but as shown in Appendix II, 316
deserves its mainstream scholar support.
"Lactantius
and Constantine" Author(s): T. D. Barnes Source: The Journal of Roman
Studies, Vol. 63 (1973), pp. 29-46.
(You can download it from JSTOR or Scribd.)
I'd bet Barnes' footnote 39 mistakes 'supererat' in
Lactantius 42, as referencing life rather than office of Imperator.] ¨
Daza seizes Galerius' realm, makes a treaty with Licinius
to split it up. Secretly makes nice
with Maxentius, too. ¨
Not
to be upstaged by Galerius' dying
edict, in comes 312, a
real or expedient conversion and vision of Christ, surprise surprise in hoc signo mentioribus: Constantine beats Maxentius
(who drowns
per 40[7] in A.Victor), takes
over Italy. God doesn't 'do'
visions, post-Canon. So either it's a hoax, or demons did it to
Constantine. But God
used him, just as God used Pharaoh. ¨
Constantine and Licinius thus team up, issue the so-called Edict of Milan, February 313. (Compare
page 662 here. Notice how the rulers do not commit to any one idea of
God.) Total
religious freedom, restitution of property that the persecutions
ravaged. Team up in marriage, too,
with Licinius marrying Constantine's half-sister. ¨
That Edict and teamup form a massive strategic blow to Daza, who like Licinius (until the Edict), was busy
persecuting Christians and Jews within his own territories. Now he's the odd man out. ¨ Daza desperately attacks Byzantium, succeeds, hits
Heraclea, Licinius responding and defeating, Daza fleeing in disguise, then rallies at Cilician
Gates; by summer 313, Daia is dead; his wife and kids murdered, too. ¨ But hey: then Licinius
the former Galerius lackey-persecutor, put the Edict of Milan in force, within Daia's former realm.
Whew. Home of Israel and Christianity can
finally breathe again. Licinius
spends the rest of the year fighting Persians. ¨ In 313-314, Constantine's
realm, the
fractious Christians huff hot air;
same old games as first century, just like Jews go to Romans to accuse Christ and
apostles; Christians go to local
proconsuls to accuse other Christians -- to Constantine, who God used to free
them. The seditious Donatists and the Arians vex him with their quarrels. Going to
Caesar, instead of God; just
as the Jews, back in Isaiah 36. No
Hezekiahs, here. Proof Christianity
was in the toilet, just as Paul shows, here in verse 11. When Constantine doesn't cave in, they start playing terrorist. Real Christian behavior, huh. Now Diocletian's
edicts, are partly vindicated. It wasn't about faith: it was about political power, using CLAIMS
of faith, to get that power: just as
Revelation 17 warned, back in 96AD.
That was man's 'delight'. But
God used it to fragment attention so Christians could stay free. ¨ Fall,
314 or more likely, 317:
Licinius and Constantine, alleged pact-mates and brothers-in-law, now war with each
other. It's a family thing. Royal Family. Of God.
Ignoring Him. So they battle
and lose lives, Constantine wins, but nothing resolved. An uneasy truce resumes. ¨ In 315, Licinius seeks to kill
Galerius' wife, daughter, son. This tangled story's proper
sequence might prove when Diocletian really died. Gibbon (XIV, p.367-8 in my 1880 copy) and Lactantius ( d.
M. P. 39-51) say: 1) they are with Daia,
in 311. 2) Valeria refuses to marry Daia, is robbed, banished, harassed. 3) Valeria writes to
Diocletian (so he's still alive), who in turn
petitions Daia in vain; but then he dies in battle, with Licinius. 4) They
flee to Licinius, who at first makes nice in order to
trick and then murder, all potential rivals;
so they flee him, again. 5) Then their alleged (not-believable) 15 months'
wandering, then beheaded and thrown into the sea. No one helps, no one mourns. Why?
So much for Constantine's alleged vision and Licinius' alleged angel
! In hoc biblio, ignoramus! ¨ Next in this sordid soap opera: the
scion of it all, broken-hearted Diocletian, dies at home amid his veggies and stone
cold monuments, 3
December 316.
33-year anniversary of the Lord's Birthday on which Carus died.
Yeah, missed the mark. Some claim Diocles
suicided to avoid being taken by Constantine and Licinius.
Click here for why this 316 date makes more sense. ¨
Just
after Diocletian dies, the boys Constantine and Licinius next war, autumn - December+ 316, Constantine again winning by March 1 317. Licinius
then cedes his European territory, gets rid of his co-emperor Valens, in return for his 20-month old son being a
'caesar' with Constantine's sons. ¨ So between 318 and 323, Licinius
turns rabidly anti-Christian. Maybe Christians in his realm aligned with Constantine and Licinius felt
threatened, since his persecution edicts focused on prohibiting
clergy teaching and religious assembly within city
walls, denying military service to Christians. As true under Diocletian, Licinius' rules
are defensive, implying Christians were seditious (search on 'Licinius', here). TD Barnes tells quite
the opposite story. And then explains Licinius'
reversal. ¨ Still 318, back again in Constantine's realm, the demon-possessed Christians agitate
to Caesar (not to God), to get rid of the Arians.
They learned nothing from being locked up, under Diocletian. Now they are just like him. ¨
So far, this story is like the Godfather trilogy, with no
good guys. Except, as with Pharaoh, God
worked out His Will for Bible and Christian safety. Now, through 320, Licinius plays Pharaoh, reneging on his promise; whether in
self-defense, or offensive malice. So
he's the last guy to go. Lectio,
lectionis. Ego rego, Deum nego. |
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334 |
that we should BECOME the praise of
His Glory |
¨ 321: An uneasy peace again ensues with Licinius, while Constantine again deals with the fractious
Christians in his own realm. ¨ Then Sarmatians attacked; next, Goths;
so Constantine had to transit Thrace. Licinius
(or Constantine) made that a pretext to resume war. ¨ 324 through the spring of 325, on land and sea, they fight.
324 Licinius finally gives up, is imprisoned but apparently still
plotting, so he's put
to death that spring. Sic
transit gloria mundi, and qui
se non proficit in Doctrine, deficit in everything else. ¨ Constantine is left as sole ruler, praised
by the world's ideas of glory; but his family still fights him. Now instead of King Lear, it's the
Herods rerun. Constantine executes his wife and son Crispus, in 326. Allegations they were 'involved',
golly. No male from his loins will rule, after the first generation. So you are to know this is not God's man,
nor his kids, Deut 28:15-18. ¨ End 324-330, Constantine builds
his 'New Rome', replete with seven man-made hills, Byzantium now renamed Constantinople, thus
marginalizing the old Rome; yet aping it. Did no one recall Revelation 17? Or, when Nero and Commodus renamed
everything, what that meant? ¨
This relocation alerts devout Christians to leave the
East. When buildings rise but Word's Freedom
falls, it's time to run: now Church has political control. It spells burnt
Bibles and persecutions for all deemed heretics. The persecuted becomes the Grand
Inquisitor. For Constantine united church and state, intermittently persecuted Jews and
pagans (search on 'Jew', here). Constantine intended
to control Church; but they,
controlled him and his successors.
So that symbiosis of evil purpose would become permanent, and
undo the Empire. ¨ Of course,
Christians then and since imagine they glorify God by emulating pagans. For Constantine continued
what Diocletian set in motion, ostentation,
complex bureaucracy to limit power, state-run economy,
persecutions. ¨ Constantine's three boys are made Caesars on Christmas, 333. God's wit
via Paul is shocking: they didn't know
this convergence; they thought the world was 1000+ years older, than it
was. His successors will war over
Trinity, kill Jews and other Christians, for the next 1000
years. And they will hallucinate
they glorify God. (Or
maybe only Constans,
in 333. More ironic.) ¨
This
is Paul's 2nd epainon benchmark.
Tie to first epainon benchmark: in both 133
and 333-334, a city was razed and a corrupt Roman one, was built atop it.
Paul equates Constantine with pagan Rome, Antiochus IV Epiphanes. City construction began on 490th anniversary of Antiochus' desecration of
Temple. Anti-parallel to 1Kings8. Jews begin
to live there in the 320's,
during construction; thus access to OT Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic
is available APART from Church control. Click here
for the close of the epainon anaphora. ¨ So of course from 332-334,
the barbarians invaded the more. This fragments state ability to persecute
dissent. Whew. |
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34335 |
proelpikotas: Firstfruits |
¨
Constantine
dies on Pentecost,
337. Of course, you know
'firstfruits' kicks off the count to Pentecost.. right? Can God be more pointed?? [Firstfruits begins piggybacked on the last
day of Passover week, per Bible, Numbers 28:26. But even if you count it wrongly, starting
the day after first Passover sabbath: 'Pentecost' it still has the same
meaning, even if celebrated on the WRONG DAY; as they did, back then. Ouch.] ¨
At his
father's death, Constantius II spends the next six months murdering
most of the male family ("massacre of the princes"), allegedly to
prevent usurpations. Remaining are the
three sons, Julian,
and Gallus. Both will become usurpers. Gives new meaning to 'firstfruits',
huh. (Chief historian for this time is
Ammianus,
online in Latin or
English.)
So just as God cut
out Levi's 'fruits' for cutting out Shechem males, so too Constantine's male
heirs will be cut off. They are: ¨
Constantine II, who lives 3 more years;
he got the West. But wanted the
whole empire. He released the jailed Athanasius, fought with his brothers over
Trinity(!), and died in battle trying to take over the realm of his brother Constans. ¨
Constantius II, who lives until 361;
he would spend his life fighting, too. He got the East, then got the rest. His laws attack Jews (search on 'Jews', here); in 339,
it is a CAPITAL CRIME for a Jew to marry a Christian, or even to
proselytize. That tells you getting Hebrew Bible, was popular. Again, 334
is 2nd epainon anaphora benchmark. So God
condemns the Church and secular rulers, shows His Purpose For The Few is yet
achieved, by parallel
with the first and final benchmarks. Click
here for the timing
interplay via the
Triune eudokia anaphora, for it 'births' the
epainon. ¨
Constans, who only lives until 350.
He got Italy, Africa, Illyricum, Macedonia and Achaea, but after Constantine II attacked him and died, Constans inherited the West, as well. Then
he dies. This will put the
Empire under the persecuting Constantius II. ¨
The 'firstfruits' of Constantine's legacy, was murder
among Christians, too. Arians and
Trinitarians argued, knifed and killed each other everywhere; you argued with the guy mending your shoes,
over whether Christ was God; if you
went to the Hippodrome/Circus Maximus you bet on the Blues or the Greens --
based on whether you were Trinitarian or Arian; then you might enjoy murder, for dessert. They would still be at it,
200 years later (click then search
on 'blues'). ¨ Each sect denounced
the other one to the Emperor; and since now the Emperors themselves were
divided between Trinitarian and Arian -- everyone got persecuted, their dead
bodies waved before God, as each side hallucinated itself as honoring
Him. Dio-cletian, anyone? What became the Codex Justinianus still contains samples
of their sordid edicts. Full Code here. |
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352 |
hearing |
¨ Trinitarian and spiritually-deaf Constans, banned pagan sacrifices and involved
himself in Church squabbles. 2 Tim 2:26-3:7: always hearing, never
learning. So never hearing, even when
listening. So the rest of his
short life is spent fighting; he loses
empire and life to usurper
Magnentius, in
350.
Get this: Constans previously saved Magnentius from death due to sedition. ¨ This fraternal strife -- now allegedly over whether
Trinity or Christ is both God and Man?!
-- continues through 352. They and their colluding, warring popes and bishops, all ignore the NT in Greek, their
native tongue. Ever hearing,
never listening! |
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8 |
360 |
Word of Truth |
¨
Deafness is contagious. So is short rule. Usurper Magnentius will be gone by mid-August, 353. When Constantius II won, Magnentius suicides,
but only after he first tried to murder his own family. Nice guy. ¨
Meanwhile
Constantius II rules with bad underlings. By 353
he inherited ALL the territory, so can't be good in so short a span. ¨
He
realizes his folly in murdering the
Constantinian males, so in 355
appoints his cousin, the philosophic
and affable Julian, as Caesar. At this point, Julian, though raised Christian, has instead
adopted an offshoot of Neo-Platonism; so will write much to argue against
'the Galileans', aka Christianity.
So much for hearing of the Word of Truth! ¨
Julian as Caesar,
repeatedly defeats the barbarians, is loved by the troops; so Constantius II gets jealous, orders troops
redeployed, so to distance them from Julian; that, plus the bad underlings, generate so
much common resentment, in January or February of 360, the army
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12 |
372 |
Official Proclamation of Salvation |
¨
Through
360-361, the two cousins negotiate, intrigue, avoid civil
war. By summer, Julian decides to fight. Constantius II arms, too: before they
fight, Constantius II
dies in
November 361. His
Official Proclamation saved Julian,
named him as successor. ¨
So
in 362, the empire is under one head: Julian, who
next openly declares he's pagan but acts like a saint; institutes some much-needed governmental
reforms -- and begins a Maoistic Hundred Flowers movement for Christians. He rescinds edicts against Christians, but
claims Christianity is an apostasy from Judaism, cajoles Christians for
murdering their rivals, yet lets them do it, just the same. Book III
of Theodoret on Julian is biased, but has some details. Read AureliusVictor
for the contra. ¨
When his efforts don't stop conversions, Julian next
issues
edicts
to stop
Christianity from being taught. He apes Daia's pagan
copycatting of the ekklesia, to structurally
compete with Christians and their good deeds. For he was affronted that patronage
should come from Christians, rather than from the Emperor. Daniel 11:36, anyone? Ooops. ¨
Next
year, lured into a desert ambush by some cut-nosed Persian spies, Julian
dies from a
battle wound while trying to besiege Ctesiphon
(thinking himself another Alexander), 26 June 363. On his deathbed, he
claimed to regard death as "union with heavens and the stars." Since he
was a believer as a child, he got his wish: SAVED. Surprise surprise: Jesus lives, after
all. ¨
Succeeding
Julian, is his
Christian longtime confidant, named Jovian. Whether by Julian's dying appointment or troop
acclamation, Jovian
becomes Emperor; he
cedes most of Diocletian's Persian gains, to Shaphur
II; then, leads the troops in retreat. He dies, eight months later, in
February
364. (There are conflicting reports on how he died, whether from bad
food or fumes; he was on his way
back to Constantinople. Eutropius
claims that was the 1,119th year AUC, two years later than expected?)
Jovian's writing and edicts show he
wanted to restore Church political powers enjoyed under Constantine, plus a food dole;
but officially, this brief time was generally tolerance for paganism, too. ¨
Succeeding him, is
Valentinian. During 364, There was
protracted negotiation with the army over his appointment, and he finally
specified his brother Valens
as co-emperor to run the East. ¨
This
was provisionally accepted. But Valens, new to power and inexperienced, was
more or less hung out to dry, ¨
as
Valentinian had to deal with barbarian incursions
in the West. He does so, for the next ten years. |
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7 |
379 |
believing |
¨
Both
rulers continue to deal with the barbarians and usurpers in their empires. The pair also begin to assimilate the barbarians into their lands and
imperial households, rather than merely fight them; in effect, elevate
them within Roman society. Romans
resent 'foreigners' gaining prestige, never mind, it reduced war
expenses. So domestic problems
increase. ¨
Domestic
policy under Valentinian
was troubled mostly by taxation revolts, animosity with the Senate, and Christian activists. Valentinian tried to secure the former and
avoid the latter, with uneven
intent and success. ¨
Domestic
policy under Valens was similarly troubled, and he took
an active role in alternately persecuting
Christian or pagan activists who were
agitating in his realm. ¨
In
November 375 , Valentinian, while negotiating for peace with the crafty Quadi, suffered
apoplexy or a stroke, and died. [p.155 of my MIlitary Encyclopedia by Dupuy and Dupuy
(2nd Revised Edition) says Valentinian was instead planning his next
campaign. Didn't say the source.] ¨
As
a result, his Western
empire splits between
his two sons, Gratian
and Valentinian II,
aged 16 and 4, respectively. So now we
have a return to child-Emperors
controlled by the adults over them. Valentinian had Gratian marry Constantius II's daughter, the year before; they will be childless. Both teenagers would only live another 8 years. ¨
Valens,
would only live 3. Tragic story. In 378,
the Huns invaded Goth lands; the Goths
asked Valens for entry; he gladly accepted, to get more troops for
his war with Persia; but the Gothic
resettlement went awry, with Huns
and Alani mixed in; Romans in charge of resettlement, abused
the Goths, who then revolted; they bested the Romans and ransacked
Thrace. So Valens had to fight. He met them at Adrianople with too few troops. Both sides were in battle position; while
in pre-battle negotiation, a Roman
unit accidentally sallied on the field;
this was construed as a double-cross. So both armies fight, Valens flees and dies, August 9, 261 years after Trajan -- burnt alive in a tower. Rome called it her worst defeat since Cannae. |
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9 |
388 |
Sealed |
¨
Gratian became Emperor over Valens' territory, and appointed Theodosius to defeat
the Goths.
On January 19, 379, he sealed
Theodosius, as Augustus. Meanwhile,
the pushy Christian priests used Church as a ultimatum, a weapon: if Gratian and Theodosius didn't behave by
persecuting Jews, pagans and Christians the priests disliked, the Emperors
would be sealed away from entering Church. Despicable.
Here
is a sampling those vile Edicts. Another
sampling. By contrast, compare this Leviticus 26:3 sealing chronology of
Jerome, beginning also in 379. Then, from 383 and constantly in 388, he spends the next 20 years making a
Bible translation,
folks will read for 1000 years; for the originals he
preferred, would soon be locked away.
Jerome's would often be the ONLY Bible in the West, until the
Reformation. See,
you can't obey commandments you don't have, so it's a sealed promise of Bible Available. ¨
At
this point, God sealed Gratian with only four more years to live.
He spent his life battling or befriending barbarians, pagans, the
Senate, and favoring Christian activists --
rejecting Pontifex Maximus, for example. This inconstancy sealed his
fate, resulting in mass
disaffection within
the Senate, the army (for
his preferential treatment of foreigners and his own lack of military
enthusiasm) and among the
pagans; with the result that in 383,
Magnus Maximus
revolts with much popular support. ¨
Meanwhile,
on January 19 383, Theodosius appointed his son Arcadius,
Augustus. So now the latter is a
co-emperor. ¨
Gratian dies, maybe at the hands of Maximus, on August 25,
383. Five years later, Maximus also tries to take over Valentinian II's territory (Italy, Illyricum, Africa);
Theodosius will arise and defeat Maximus, who then dies on August 28, 388. ¨
So 388 seals the fate of the Roman empire: consolidated under one ruler whose policies
cause a split; so the West fragments into nations. There's a final split of alleged
popes, too (between Rome and Alexandria).
Bear in mind that both Roman and Odox brand of popery back-invent
their history, each still claiming to be the 'original' Christianity. That's why persecutions began: an
ecumenical ORGANIZATION was a political threat to the Roman state; first in
Rome, and then in Africa, etc. ¨
Theodosius'
Eastern territory had
its back covered for the most part, owing to astute negotiations with the Persians by that yet-future savior of Rome, Stilicho.
He will be betrayed by jealous
rivals. ¨
On
the surface, though, Valentinian
II -- now only 17 -- ruled the West, with the
wily Theodosius having insinuated his own trusted
officials within Valentinian's advisors.
Parenting. Four more years. ¨
During that time, Theodosius
creates the Rev 17 monster;
persecutes all non-Catholic Christian sects, especially the Arians. Tyrannical Unity of Church and state is his
Seal and Motto. His successors
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10 |
398 |
epayyelias: 'promise', really Heritage Pledge |
¨
Valentinian
II was probably
murdered May
392 by his advisor Arbogast(es), who
expected to be rewarded with rule. He
wasn't. Theodosius smiled a lot, then adopted
his natural son Honorius
in January
393, to 'inherit' Valentinian II's empire. Then,
prepared for war with Arbogast; which was fought, 5-6 September, 394: ending, with Arbogast's suicide. ¨
Shortly
afterwards, Theodosius
dies, too: January 17, 395.
Heir and Spare take over. They
don't want to pay foreign troops. So
their erstwhile general Alaric is kicked out, along with other Visigoths.
So, they turn to protracted rapine. ¨
395 is the famous
official PARTITION of the Roman Empire: nicely fits Paul's use of Heritage Pledge,
dontcha think? For by dividing the Empire officially, Theodosius hoped to stop all the warring. Instead, he unwittingly launches the END
of the Roman Empire in the West, for Honorius' rule will be weak. This
weakness preserves believer freedom to learn Bible absent
church-married-to-state control. It will unravel poisonous church-state
unity legated by Constantine.
On the surface, it will take another 1000 years to unravel; but
European freedom from Church dominance is founded, here. Quite a pledge, indeed! ¨
Arcadius rules in the East, and Honorius in the West, when Theodosius dies.
Well, their regents rule over them, for they are age 18 and 11,
respectively. ¨
Stilicho, a Vandal, becomes Honorius'
regent; Stilicho
marries his daughter to Honorius when the lad is but 14, in 398. ¨
Arcadius' regent, Rufinus, wanted Arcadius to marry his own
daughter, too. But Arcadius wanted Aelia Eudoxia; so another advisor, Eutropius -- who wanted to oust Rufinus -- arranged the match ¨
while
Rufinus (successfully) negotiated with Alaric, after Stilicho had chased him into Epirus. That was in 395.
Rufinus was soon murdered by his troops; ¨
a
greedy Eutropius replaced him. Eutropius
and Stilicho were also competitors. So during this same time, Eutropius abetted
a rebellion in Honorius' Africa; the rebellion was put down, and then Eutropius, too.
The year? 398. |
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404 |
arrabon: Down Payment |
¨ The regents war with each other.
As a result, the barbarians gain more
power and independence.. and Bible
teaching is freed up in the West. ¨ Barbarians
invade 400 through 406.
Stilicho defeats them and thus saves Rome, each time. ¨ Meanwhile In the East, Eudoxia helped her husband break from his
advisors, oust Eutropius and then arch
anti-semite John
Chrysostom. Jews gain
a bit more freedom, for awhile.
But she dies in 404. |
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412 |
inheritance |
In 405,
Jerome completes his translation of Bible.
He'd disseminated the material with cover letters as he completed each
book(s). He still encounters criticism
from those opposed to Hebrew or to changing the Old Latin. Jerome's translations are then sporadically
quashed or (progressively) permitted, for the next 400 years. ¨
Honorius -- who spent his free time feeding
chickens -- now suffers many revolts and
usurpations. He learns to buy them off. ¨
Stilicho has to concentrate Roman forces
between defending against the barbarians, or against the usurpations. In 406,
he is obstructed by machinations in the Eastern Empire, so couldn't get
enough money or troops. Stilicho next changes tactics, demands the East
release the buffer state Illyricum to Rome; where the thrice-defeated but still alive Alaric, fled. ¨
Meanwhile,
after Eudoxia, Arcadius' advisors resumed control. Nasty religious laws are passed, Jews are
persecuted, along with pagans and 'heretics'. Barbarian incursions continue; his advisors
adopt a passive stance (build walls, pay tribute). In his last years, Arcadius is politically absent. General tenor of rule is 'i don't care' or
petty religious squabbles. Siege
mentality. ¨
The
31-year-old Arcadius dies in May 408 of unknown causes. An
Eastern plot to subvert Honorius and then take over the West, ensues.
This, alongside the many Roman usurpers
who carved out Honorius' territory, from 406 onward. ¨
Stilicho, who is Honorius' protector, is thus falsely accused of subverting the throne --
clever, accuse your enemy of what YOU do.
The broken-hearted man doesn't resist capture; Stilicho and son are executed in August 408.
¨ After Stilicho, Chicken Boy Honorius has no good leaders, and he doesn't
care, either. For Honorius, is a Belshazzar in Daniel 5. So next, Alaric, who only wants rights to
settle in Roman lands, thrice besieges Rome;
finally in frustration, he sacks Rome in 410. Alaric dies soon afterwards. The East and the usurpers, bide their time. They're happy Rome was sacked. Zosimus' History,
stops here. So the ever-bombastic Augustine spends the next 13 years writing City of God: a churlish, windy defense of
Catholicism, despite God's mene mene tekel upharsin contra,
via Rome's sacking. BIBLES were
in those churches, so Alaric
didn't hurt them. Augustine
alleges that fact vindicates Catholicism, just as Catholics claim THEY decide
Holy Writ. But God protects His Word WHEREVER it is, 1Kings 9 contract, invoked by Daniel
9:19. Even in the stinking churches,
Amos 4:10, Isaiah 1. ¨
Meanwhile,
back in 408 Arcadius' orphaned son Theodosius II ascended
the Eastern throne at the ripe old age of 7. ¨
Next,
Honorius enters into negotiations with Alaric's heir Ataulf; and the Visigoths leave Rome in 412,
accompanied by the daughter of Theodosius I, Galla Placidia. |
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418 |
Redemption |
¨ Still 412: back in the East, Theodosius II's ugly, anti-semitic sister Pulcheria (search on 'Regency
of Pulcheria'),
herself only 15, takes
on government as well as his education.
She urges and enforces brutal Galerian-like laws against Jews, pagans
and heretics. Little Miss Hitler. She makes herself Augusta in 414.
Thereafter, she dominates both him
and the Church. Well, Church uses her,
too. (Ugly false doctrine: Pulcheria loudly remains a perpetual
virgin. Mary was no perpetual virgin, it would be a SIN to refuse bearing
Royal progeny, see 1Cor 7.) So no sons! So thousands die, in civil wars! So an
elderly, innocent female pagan philosopher (Hypatia)
can be brutally murdered by a churchman, without penalty. Krystallnacht mentality with a Redemptrix smile, while ripping a
60-year old pagan virgin's body, limb from limb. In a church. ¨ Here is a sampling
of those Edicts, against the Jews. (Search on '41' to find the Edicts of that time.) Here is a more comprehensive
summary in chronological order, showing the continuity from 395
forward. They multiplied
rituals, too, from this time forward. ¨ So
now Honorius' protectors, are the Visigoths. That link quotes Ataulf, wanting to be Rome's redeemer; so he will, with Honorius' blessing, marry Galla Placidia in 414. She bears a son who dies that year, and Ataulf is murdered in 415.
War between the tribes ensues;
so now Honorius teams with Constantius III (not related to Constantine) and wins, end 416. Galla
is returned to
Honorius, who forces
her to marry Constantius
III (not related to Constantine) the following January 1.
She bears him a daughter by end year.
In 419, she bears a son, the future Valentinian III. ¨ When Bible shifts
regnal lines to daughters, their children becoming rulers WHILE
children, God signifies excessive
apostasy in the generation replaced. Thus He keeps His Redemption Inheritance Promise. Recall: the Levitical line went through Daughter
of Levi due to Shechem; regnal line shifted to Daughter of David, due
to Jeconiah curse: hence Christ is
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¨ Honorius dies childless of 'dropsy', in 423.
(But p. 135 of Roman
Fasti pdf quotes
sources that claim Serena was his child, killed with Stilicho.) ¨ After a brief interregnum, Valentinian III,
age 6, Galla's son -- becomes emperor, 425.
So his mother is regent, dominates
him. ¨ On the Eastern front, not-so-pretty Pulcheria marries teenage Theodosius II off to another teen, who converts to Christianity and is thus
renamed Aelia Eudokia in 421;
but not as the linked legend, portrays; obviously the match was important and
the resulting marital relationship strong, for there are many conflicting
versions of it. Click
here for another partly-mythical example. The duller truth is, the young girl was
likely a necessary political compromise
to the nobility (search on 'Regency of
Pulcheria'). And, she didn't turn out to be as
subservient as they'd planned.
Moreover, Pulcheria was way too young -- and too jealous -- to pick
such a rival, herself. So legend is
made to justify factions, enchant the masses, hide the machinations. ¨ In 421, Aelia gives birth to yet another female, Licinia Eudoxia, who
at age 2 is betrothed to Valentinian
III, in 423 (see Galla Placidia).
Thus you know Honorius'
succession was planned by the East and Galla, long before he
died. Likely Honorius himself approved
it -- or was forced to approve it -- knowing he would soon die.
Or, maybe he was afterwards murdered. ¨ Soon after Licinia's birth, the classically-trained Aelia competes with Little Miss Hitler, Pulcheria.
In particular, Aelia opposed Pulcheria's anti-semitism and
anti-pagan policies.
(Perhaps the adults
forming Aelia's faction in the palace prompted her, so to disgrace Pulcheria). ¨ Edicts persecuting Jews and pagans,
stepped up around 415.
These continue, with periods of respite, in
the later Theodosian
Code. Sample
Edicts. (Search on '41', '42', '43' to find the conflicting Edicts of that
time. Read edicts after each search, as subsequent ones don't repeat
the year's date.) Comprehensive
Summary in order, as continued in that Code. Novellae
(Law harmonization with
Western Empire). ¨ Their arguing enables Theodosius to secure a balance of
power between the
clergy who support Pulcheria, and the pagans supporting Aelia.
Byzantine politics. You can tell from the law changes, how the
factions won or lost, especially after 421. ¨ Meanwhile, in 421 Theodosius' guardian and ally, Persian king Isdigerdes aka Yzdegerd, dies.
He had been protecting the realm from invasions. As a
result, the invaders progressively chip away Eastern territory, or get annual
tribute; by Theodosius' death in 450, this tribute will
bankrupt the Eastern empire. ¨ In 425,
Jews were effectively
prohibited from practice -- salami-style, much like Hitler
would later do -- so
the Sanhedrin was disbanded; so again Jews were
dispersed. Paul
links this 425 prohibition of Jews to have their own
'patriarchate'-- which effectively means they can't administer their own
religious law -- to the final epainon anaphora
benchmark (syllable=year
425-434). First epainon
benchmark was the Bar
Kochba rebellion
which had the same result. The middle benchmark linked the razing of
Jerusalem and rededication as Aelia Capitolina, to the building and dedication of Constantinople, in 334;
as a result, Jews SETTLED in that area.
The dual-entendre here links this expulsion of the Jews to Valentinian
III's accession. Pointed
condemnation of Church and the rulers,
who hallucinate they glorify and praise Him; first with parallel to Antiochus
and Hadrian, now with parallel to Pompey 490 years earlier. So Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic is DISTRIBUTED
AND PRESERVED, by use of the expulsion. Click here
for the grand historical interplay between the eudokian and epainon anaphora. ¨ During this time, the West has no good
forces or leadership, so goes to Theodosius for troops to defend against many barbarian
incursions. But Roman forces are often
defeated, now; the 'possession' is eaten away. Leprous religion begets leprous
politics. At length, Byzantium no
longer helps. ¨
Overrun by barbarian groups, 'Rome' will mostly shrink to
the size of Italy.
¨
So in both West and the anti-semitic, pogromizing East,
the Possession is Redeemed away piecemeal from the clutches of Catholic
apostasy; barbarians build their own
nations, and steadily remove territory from Rome. The tables have turned. ¨ Sad way to wake up
to what the Mosaic Law always commanded, Deut 8:20, Deut 17:14-20.
This is why the rulers don't last.
They pretend to be acting for Christ but never learn His Law. The NT upgraded the OT, did not abolish
it. The sacrifices and Judaic rituals
ended, since Christ fulfilled them. As
His Body, His Possession, we are to Live The Higher Law, and everyone
-- ruler and ruled alike -- are STILL subject to it. Especially, if claiming to be
Christian. Thus we see that
both Church and State were completely corrupt, trying to possess everything
themselves though in His Name. So
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Epilogue This is a very tangled time in
history, and pivotal to all the future of Europe, the US, even today. The machinations of the Roman Catholic and
Orthodox bishops, and the political rulers in this period are given balanced
treatment in Will Durant's Age
of Faith, Chapters One through Six (in my 1950 edition). Durant, a former Jesuit priest turned
communist and atheist, is surprisingly mild in his censures. I can't be. The early Church is guilty of every
crime. And deems herself holy, for it! So is even more guilty, today. All persecutions of Islam and Hitler ape
what you've read thus far. And it only
gets worse, as here we enter the Dark Ages. God's indictment is against
CHRISTIANS, not just a denomination.
The priests and leaders of this time merely reflect general apostasy
in Christendom. Bible uses nature of rulers, to show nature of ruled. So we are to look in the mirror. West:
Galla resigns regency when Valentinian III reaches majority in 437; he marries Theodosius
II and Aelia Eudokia's long-betrothed daughter, Licinia
Eudoxia. This match seems to offer some independence
to all parties: Valentinian, from his mother Galla; Theodosius and Aelia, from Pulcheria's self-righteous, bishop-browbeating,
dominance. But the royals are
still dominated by their other advisors, since they became Emperors while
still children. So they don't
have outside experience to well test what their advisors say. They only have the skills of intrigue, of
pitting one advisor against the other by appeal to greed. By now, they all intrigue at court, as a
matter of upbringing. Valentinian is still dominated
by his advisors. In frustration, he
later murders his advisor Aetius, to gain self-rule. The advisor's avengers in turn murder
Valentinian the
following year; so at age 36, Valentinian dies in 455. Licinia Eudoxia bore him only daughters; she is thus forced to marry his successor Petronius Maximus.
But also in 455, after taking Africa, Geiseric sacks Rome absent Eastern or Roman resistance; he takes the women with him, maybe with
their advance connivance, stories vary.
One daughter married Geiseric's son. The other two women,
released in 460's, go to Constantinople, not Rome. East:
in 429, Theodosius II at age 28, began a comprehensive reform of Empire law; it was completed in 435, but not yet published. Seems this was Theodosius' pet project
while under tutelage. (Maybe he sought refuge from female
control by study of law, having shown a propensity for editing manuscripts
while a child.) The rewrite is re-examined and then finally
published in 438 as
Codex
Theodosianus. No doubt Aelia's classical training and pro-pagan, pro-Jewish arguments,
assisted him. This is about where
contemporary Socrates,
stops his history (from Constantine forward).
Theodoret's
History stops at 429. Perhaps
to obstruct her former charge, in 431 and at EPHESUS, Pulcheria is the power behind the ecumenical
council to glorify her own self-imposed
virginity via the new Theotokos movement, and to persecute the Nestorians. Using political wiles to enforce tyranny
of religion with a banal definition of 'faith', abstention from sex! Pulcheria
herself claims to BE the mother of God. Clearly
the rivals for popedom used her and she them, with no conscience
whatsoever. Glorifying themselves,
while claiming to glorify Christ.
Just search on '431' in this
link, read it all for yourself. Despicable. Pulcheria
conspired in other ways, too. Theodosius' wife Aelia Eudokia received accolades for her piety upon
return from Jerusalem in 438. Aelia's articulate speech and possession of
relics -- which were awarded her -- diminished the spinster's overvaunted
virginity. So, a plot ensues yet
again, and by 443, Aelia will be wrongly accused of adultery over a Phrygian apple, so
the myth goes -- she is age 41 now, probably in menopause and looks like a
prune -- yet Aelia is thence banished back to Jerusalem.
You just know there's more to the story. Theodosius
II falls from a horse
and dies, 7 (or 9) years later. Pulcheria maybe outlives
him (1 to) 3 years. In 434, Attila the Hun inherits his father's kingdom in what we call Hungary. Attila
laid waste to eastern Europe, and then prepared to invade the West, partly
owing to an invitation by Honoria, Valentinian III's banished-for-adultery sister.
The East defaulted on owed tribute to the Huns. Attila
advanced and would
have won in 452, but died from a broken blood vessel
in his wedding bed (with a lesser
female, pending Honoria's delivery to him). His death resulted in a scramble for power
amid his successors. This scramble
saved both West and East. Meanwhile, either the Vandals or Goths,
control Northern Africa, Spain, most of Gaul.
The Franks would soon overrun them and take over Italy,
too. Britain was somewhat
protected by her seas, but the Goths would be 'invited' there to oust
the Picts and Scots. So by
450 the Roman Empire of Augustus was either
depopulated, or in barbarian control. Rome and
Constantinople were now large enclaves; very like Babylon was, when Gobyras drained the rivers running through
it, and marched in. From the outside, barbarian hordes now
fought each other to DEFEND these enclaves. Within
those enclaves, the siege mentality expressed itself in
ever-more-ostentatious art, architecture, dress, lifestyles. Magical medicine, mores, religion; building
the outside, with nothing inside.
Typical declining-society stage. Notice
how some Emperors' adoptions or reigns are precisely marked, even to the syllable (Christ, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula,
Hadrian, Macrinus), but
others are lumped. By this we see
when a distinct historical shift
occurs; which means, in the people
of that time. A ruler always stands
for the mindset of the people, in Bible (viz., what God said about Manasseh in 2Kings 21, 23, 24, and
the companion Chronicles chapters). Daniel 9 already
established that pattern of syllabification or clause division, based on
Isaiah 53. Paul continued it. So just as Daniel's Track 2 meter stopped
the kings' count at syllable 434 of Dan9:13, so Paul now stops, at 434. Nothing more to say. What happens next, repeats the past. Shamefully. So here in 434, apostasy so bad, women run the
show. So God's Glory will bypass
the politics, the powerful, the self-glorifying Christian groups and
individuals, to instead preserve Bible and those FEW who actually learn
and live on it. When Bible
truncates the story of a life, it's a snub.
That's what Paul means, here: these 'rulers' do not determine history. They promenade on and off-stage, are
but extras used to fill out the real
plot: which is, learning and living on Bible: that we be made into THE Glory of Him.
Deja-MacBeth at the end of every
regnal play: Tales retold by
idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Witness: even 100 years later, State
plays Fake Church and persecutes the Jews. Despicable.
From here, it's all downhill in the East: ¨ Blume's
translation of the Justinian Code. (Books aren't titled, nor can you search
for keywords; sigh, pdf files are per book.)
¨ The inferior Scott translation of Civil
Law is still useful, but still absent helpful book titles. ¨ To first know the titles, use Krueger's
Latin of Civil Law.
Download it, then look up the titles.
Helpful up-front index, too. ¨ Here's a later
translation by Clyde Pharr, which you can search, partly view (and buy). Now we've seen from Christ's Birth to 434, give or take 1-3 years; most of the
year benchmarks are unnervingly accurate.
But there's another track: from Death, i.e., used with reference to
First or Last David; John uses it as his Anno Domini, in Rev1:1, 33+58
syllables = 91.. playing on Paul's 91, here in Ephesians. |
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Paul's
chronology abruptly stops with
(West) Valentinian
III at age 15, Roman age of manhood; and (East), with Theodosius II at age 33 – whose first draft of Codex Theodosianus, got done. Theo's big sister ugly
Pulcheria, was Little Miss Hitler, and the Code reflected that. She was fixated
on perpetual virginity, so attacked anyone who disparaged Mary Theotokos. Yikes. Paul also stops when Attila is newly King of the Huns; he held the East for ransom,
exacted huge annual tribute from Theodosius; the East will be nearly bankrupt when
he dies 8+ years later. How the mighty are fallen.
Thus
we know how the story ends; we've heard enough.
Typical Greek economy in plays, you trail off the ending, for it is
also a beginning. Cycle. That's how modern historians treat the
period, too: they call (new or old)
Rome's kings after these two, 'shadow emperors'. Note:
after Marcian, a Pope crowns the Emperor (Leo). So forget the East. Nothing worth telling. Thus
Paul's meter, ends.
Roman rhetorical custom is silence toward the unworthy.
You don't even deign to speak their
names. Rev 1-3 omits 'Rome' too,
reserving her 'seven hills' haughty nickname – for Rev 17. Rome
Old or Rome New, same seven
hills, same loud-and-flashy idolatry masked now as 'Christian', 'mystery' name
for Church. Yeah, Bible is a mystery
to her. Fake Church. There will still be Fake Church in the
Tribulation. Paul but charted why and
how it got started. John, shows how it ends. We see that story with hindsight.
Just as Isaiah 53 charted Israel's future for believers like Daniel to
retrospectively track in his meter, so too Paul pens for future Christians: Know What Time It Is. We learn the same
lesson, in arrears; so we know What Time
it Was, and It Will Keep On Being
Daniel 9:26c, Time Bubble Awaiting
Rapture. Prophecy is designed
to teach, not to make babies drool.
Yeah, but we learn from prophecy and history, that we learn nothing from
prophecy and history. Sigh.
Daniel
9:13 abruptly cut his retrospective tally of Israel's not-long-faithful
kings, at 607 bc. 434
syllables. Silence, for them. Kings after that were puppets; in 607
Pharaoh Neco placed Jehoiakim on the throne, 2Chron36; Nebuchadnezzar quickly
followed, 2Kings 24. (Battle of Carchemish is in between.)
So Paul apes that style in a 434-year unit, too (607+434=1040, David's birth).
For the last kings were puppets under women, fourth generation crowned while yet children. Time to clean house.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something
blue. A preparing Bride is also 'hidden' hence
'silent', to the outside world. Hopefully undetected, as modesty
requires. She certainly doesn't politick
or do anything independent of her husband, even while betrothed. For that would dishonor Him. In ancient times, the royal betrothed female often moved into the groom's family, while
quite young; was cloistered, protected, raised in her future family's customs,
language, property, etc. In
short, privately trained years before nuptials, so that married life will be
natural and comfortable for her.
Church
as Bride, is New. Psalm
110 is the basis for Church's Bridal Contract, as the Book of Hebrews
explains. The writer also ties Our
Contract to its Juridical Impetus, which
is always based on precedence. What was it? OLD Israel had
rejected HER contract, which of course God foreknew, promising her a New Covenant, Jeremiah 3:16, 31:31-34 –
around which the writer of Hebrews, built his letter. When he gets to the climax of Hebrews 8-10,
he invokes Jeremiah 31 to show how the 'two walls' of Ephesians 2, the 'grafting' in Romans 9-11, all
fit together. We 'join' (Levi, how cute)
Israel at her abrogation point. Join.
Not 'replace'. Two walls,
not prolongation of the First One. Israel
was to be First Bride, but Vashti refused to Come. So Matt 22, now Father sends Spirit out among
the highways and byways, seeking Esther-Church – and by the way, fulfills
His Promise to the Gentiles in a different
manner.
So
we were a 'mystery', 'hidden' in OT; maybe Israel would
Accept Him when He Came. Hidden,
for maybe He'd NOT pay for us, maybe He'd not want to pay, at all. Of course, HE is SOLE Beneficiary of ta panta, Everything, Isaiah 53:10-12
contract. So it was up to Him, how many
sins would be 'hidden' in Him by Father's imputing stabs on the Cross. Which He bore silently, in pitch black conditions.
All we heard, was Him screaming Psalm 22 over and over – so we'd know He
was still ALIVE and PAYING. Then when He
finally dies, He tells us He won: tetelestai, it is finished: into Your Hands I deposit my spirit, Oh God of
Doctrine/Truth (Ps 31:5).
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the Bride = Body of Believers, whether old intended or newly-sought -- belongs
to Christ;
HE is SOLE Beneficiary of ALL covenants,
Isaiah 53:12, Eph 1:10, Gal 3:16,20. All
is HIDDEN IN HIM. We are part of what HE inherits, not the
other way around; any inheritance we
get, is IN Christ, UNDER Christ, WITHIN Christ, FOR Christ,
all-things-to-for-by, Him
(Colossians 1:15-27). So: Israel is part of HIS inheritance; so are we.
Hence, TWO walls for ONE Christ having TWO
Kingships: a) the primordial Kata-Melchizedek, under which we
belong; and b), His later Jewish
Royalty, under which Israel belongs.
For no one replaces
Christ. Israel's inheritance was IN
the b) promise to Son of David, 2 Samuel 7, Hebrews 3. And, she is.
But we get a 'better' promise (Attic kreittwn,
used in Hebrews) – we are under His a) Psalm 110 Guarantee, Kata-Melchizedek King-Priesthood, a
Battlefield Royalty for beating Satan via the Cross: Hebrews 2, 5-10. Two kingships. One inheritance. One Christ BENEFICIARY, Irreplaceable,
Hebrews 10 and 12. Kinda like the Roman Empire at the end, but without two
rulers or succession problems (smile here).
His
yet-hidden human kingdoms, are two;
but each kingdom covenant's TIMING, governs who is in which kingdom; for there was always but ONE covenant
operating at a time. They join, but never overlap. So what
Israel lost, was her potential inheritance under the a) kata-Melchizedek
Covenant, to commemorate His Victory over SATAN. Any Jew who believes in Christ now, however,
gets a), not b). Again, each covenant
has its own TIME. Just as, were you born
in early AD 800's France, you'd perhaps be in Charlesmagne's kingdom; but today if in France, you're under the
Fifth Republic. Different time,
different covenant, same territory.
So, back in the OT, Israel got the Mosaic Law, to train for
that potential a) role; the b) role was
always promised Unconditionally Through
David, 2 Sam 7; so it didn't
matter how she voted for purposes of the b) inheritance, when He came. It only mattered how HE voted.
If He voted successfully on the Cross, He would still be King of the
Jews; He was even crucified, in that Status. So her negative vote, lost her the potential
of ALSO inheriting under His Primordial a) kata
Melchizedek title.
She (OT, Trib, Millennial believers) will instead become 'friend' of the
Bride under the a) kingdom. For
on the Cross Christ
fulfilled the Law, Romans 10:4; so now
His a) kingdom must first be populated to
completion; the b) kingdom's covenant is abrogated for now, Hebrews
7:12-18; it will be reinstated
post-Church, Revelation 7ff, Ezekiel 37ff.
At that point, under Him in the a) kingdom, we rule Gentile nations, Rev
1:5-6, 5:10. He will rule b) Israel; and via her, the world.
So back in the OT, Israel knew there was a 'mystery', a
'hidden' ambiguity, related to the Gentiles and the a) covenant.
Psalm 110, Isaiah 9+, Jeremiah 31 and Daniel 9:26 all related to Harvesting Gentiles; but how would God do it? Bible was silent
on the a) covenant's provisions and mechanisms. Was it to be under
Israel's b) covenant? Or beside hers, b) ? People knew only the
amount of time: a 50-year period that Pentecost/Jubilee represented, mostly to
pay back for Abraham's too-early maturation;
hence the syntactical gap in Daniel 9:26-27, lack of detail in Jeremiah
31, passing references in Isaiah 9, 53 etc.
Jews did know the ambiguity was a warning she'd lose the a) status to
the Gentiles. But also, that same ambiguity meant even if she failed a), she'd
still get b). The Gentiles were always 'folded in'.
But under what covenant? Jeremiah
merely said was that the Law would be WRITTEN on everyone's hearts, all would
KNOW God. But what Law, if the covenant
was NEW? Even Peter and James were confused in Acts 15. (Jews today reckon a besideness
that later becomes an underneath-ness,
hence their terms 'common era' and 'Queen of the Nations'.)
But
"now" -- Bible keyword for Church Age, i.e., Ephesians 3 -- musterion is our Silent Betrothal
Training,
post-salvation: Spiritual Beauty
Treatment. Spirit uses Book (John 14) to make His Head in your head (1Cor1:5, Rom12:1-3), so the 'hidden' can be KNOWN to the
group IN CHRIST. Whether Jew or Gentile, Galatians 3:28.
The problem: one must actually learn the 'NEW' material of
the a) kingdom's 'law'. Those who deny, ignore or mangle it to b)'s rules,
will not learn; will instead, miss the
Eph 4:13 maturation goal. Saved, but retarded, Phili 3:18-19, 1 Cor
3:15. As God has Paul prophesy here, we won't learn it.
We want 'old', waaah!
So.. aposiopesis. Silence. Truncated Church at 434
syllables = years. Ends with a teenager
ruling the 'West'. Over the East, a sister-dominated young man whose empire was
a HUN vassal, who loved old manuscripts, unluckily born to the purple. Plus, a new Hun ruling him financially, who
soon dies in his marriage bed. New faces; same old b) misuse of Bible persists,
Even Until Now. Sigh.
If they want to stay deaf to My New Royal Law, let them be peasants in My a) Kingdom. Forever.
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Hence Church is always
the '56' of history. Same pregnant 14 'issue' as Israel
experienced. Greek
plays end with a moral, which Paul reserves for Ephesians 1:15-23: Learn And Live On Bible. Pray, 2 Chron 7:14. For Paul is still
writing in 56 AD by his accounting, so there is Time
To Change what's forecast. It's
foreknown, but never forced. That's why
we get prophecy. That's why the Jews got it, too. Like them, we never listen. So now, here in 2012, we find all this proof
we ignored God's warnings about our future, simply because we imposed a standard on Bible that if OUR idea of
'meter' isn't visible, they ain't none. We didn't even bother to
count syllables, see if there WAS a pattern.
So, that carefully metered future, shamefully came to pass. Then
You will Know I Am God, when what I told you long ago -- with
precise, biting, wit – later occurs.
And
so it goes. Same wrangles today, as under Clement to Theodosian. We ignore the two walls, claim rather to
'replace' Israel; so in effect, claim to
replace Christ's Own b) Inheritance! Sigh.
Yet we have a better covenant under a), which we keep ignoring. We are still DEAF to Him. So, no growth. We're merely too tired from 2000 years of
religious war, to go to arms. Yet we can
still Grow And Pray. Eph 1:15-23 is a prayer, closing at 3:21. Church Age, is between. So per Eph 4-6, we can still grow and pray
that our cycle not be so bad, as prior. Every 490 years, just as Daniel prayed, so
does Paul.. and so should we. The
world's weal, depends on it.
Like Isaiah, Daniel and Mary before him,
Paul's meter parses King Events, as Church is hidden
kingmaker, 'salt'; he timed each clause, word and even syllable,
to points in ruler reigns. Augustus
initially adopted Tiberius at EulogeTOS, Eph 1:3; Augustus dies
at tou kuriOU, next clause; Tiberius dies at syllable 37; then,
Caligula reigns. Etc.
Paul reserves biting allusions for boy rulers: Caligula (epou), Nero (kataboles), Commodus (ploutos), Severans (eperisseusen, musterion, proetheto,
oikonomia); Decius (kairw, as if Time were a verb), Diocletian (all syllables 284-316), Constantine & Co. (see Appendix I below).
7's -- Trib-quality trouble -- cover
Vespasian-Domitian (katenwpion
autou); Alexander+7
usurpers, each murdered (hen
proetheto en autoi);
then Diocletian-Constantine (tou
ta panta energountos). Each 7 is
split nearly like both halves of the yet-future, Tribulation.
Paul never benchmarks any Christian our
deaf Church history calls 'father' or 'great';
but he often tags events giving rise to 'mother church', in pregnant
terms (musterion, pleromatos); especially,
via anaphorae meters (see Appendix I). Daniel benchmarked David's reign severally;
thereafter, he tied kings to their
prophets, dividing when kings were negative or positive to those (often
unnamed) prophets. Paul singled out Christ on two tracks, the shoulda-been
40 years versus His actual 33; so when Paul wrote pneumatikei,
Christ was Risen and Pentecost, begun.
But everyone else, is satirized.
Constantine's own death is PROELpikotas, Harvest
Incomplete !
Poor man died on Pentecost, so that allusion really smarts. Constantine had but
ONE generation of sons. Daughters
lasted but one more generation. Ouch: apostasy bad. Jeconiah Curse.
No so-called 'pope' is benchmarked, either. Christ said Our Kingdom is not of this
world; yet the apostasy began circa 96AD, as soon as
John was exiled to Patmos. Hot to take
over, deaf loudmouth Clement
of Rome instantly
grabbed at the Corinthians, spouting Bible to impress; thereby proving, he
fathomed nothing he quoted. For he
thought the verses he spewed, meant we-replace-Jews-and-apostles
(1 Clement). So he didn't know 1
Corinthians Chaps. 1, 2, 7, 11, 12, and above all, Chaps. 13-15 -- though he quoted from the book. He didn't grasp ANY of the Old Testament, and
proved he didn't grasp Ephesians 1-4, Hebrews 5-10, Galatians 3-5.
Of course if he had Revelation, he
didn't comprehend it at all. Or refused
to. Or
wanted to blunt its effect, if the Corinthians already had it. That latter guess makes sense, given that
Clement haughtily NEVER MENTIONS John. For God snubs Rome, naming only 'seven
hills' in Rev 17 – to stress the snotty attitude of Rome's patriarchs as
'founding families' of those hills; akin to snobby Americans preening how they
are Daughters of the American Revolution ('DAR'). Blechh.
Clement
was by no means alone. In the wake of
no-Rapture, disappointed Christians and Jews –
for Rapture had to be unpredictable,
it was not Jewish – all these
folks, splintered. Their impatience already started in Paul's
day: people wanted Rapture NOW! You see their We Want Rapture Now problem in 1 and 2
Thessalonians, 1Cor 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13-15; Romans 9-12, here in Eph 4-6,
Philippians 2 and 3; then end 2nd Peter, Jude, whole book of Hebrews
(that's why it's written), 1John 2-4, and of course Revelation 1-4. End Canon.
That last book was supremely painful; it
comes out the very last year the
Tribulation was expected to occur, per the old Jewish schedule (John's Rev 1:1-3 is a metered dateline
of AD 91). Ouch: the Lord
cudgels Christians for having become superficial, political, caving into
popular pressure; our 'faith' early degenerated into politics, visible piety,
pushing 'Christianity' into the pagan face.
We were too soon anti-semitic, claiming to replace Israel. Just like Clement.
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So Rev 17 makes Clement's deaf
anti-semitic group the 'poster boy', when it rose in AD 96;
but everyone got a bad report card.
John
upgraded Paul's 'musterion': Current Deaf State-of-Church Bulletin. Groundhog-56-day
current, always the pregant Eph1:10a's 14 outside-the-91
quarters, cliffhanger. Will that initial 56 in verse 4, EVER JOIN to verse 10a's 14 syllables, to Complete The Vote and hence.. TIME? Same
rhetoric as Moses posed in Psalm 90:16-17, 'establish the work of our hands' to
finish Temple. But "now"
(Church Age term), it's the 2nd wall of the Eternal Temple of
Bodies, Eph 2. Current, to let everyone
know Clement & Co. weren't fooling
Christ Who Now Has ALL the Keys;
prophetic, to show Clementine putsch
successors would vex nations, till Shiloh
Come. Just as foretold a generation
prior – when Clement was still a physical
baby, too -- in Ephesians 1:3-14.
Paul's AD 215 'musterion' moment? When Demetrius invented the 1st
list of Peter as a bishop in ROME; sold by Julius Africanus, Hippolytus – all
to oust Origen and compete with Rapture-Expecting
Christians. Oh: and do the list to sell the Severans on Christ! Sorta.
John but made that future textually blunt, 126 years prior. Ouch: 126 years after Isaiah wrote Chapter 53,
Temple went down. So, raze
Byzantium, next. New Rome, which we call Constantinople, created with seven
new hills, to ape old Rome. Aped
politics, even Rev 17 scarlet-and-purple, no read so no red Cross considered; yet soon quite red in New
Rome's streets, as Christians cudgeled each other if either Blues (Trinitarian) or Greens (Arian), lost in Circus Maximus.
That behavior fits the polemical, goofball Christian Hall of Shame writings.
Silly stories emulating fake Gospels claimed of Peter; or Infancy,
Hermas, Thecla. Same slapstick in Koran
or Book of Mormon, centuries later. As if penned by the same mind.
So now you know why persecution had to
occur. Christians baiting authorities. Insulting them. Begging to be killed. Killing each other. Making their faith a political cause. Appealing to Caesar. If you are maturing in Christ, you don't
do these things. You quietly learn and
live on Bible. But just as prolifers
politick to Caesar but not God today;
so too, self-righteous babies of 1st through 4th
centuries, preened and pouted and put themselves in harm's way. No wonder Rapture hasn't occurred. What about 1 Peter 5:5-7? All the 'ask anything in My Name'
verses? Well, James 4 explained: you don't ask, so you don't get; you ask for the wrong reasons or when in a
state of sin, so you don't get. We
don't get, since we try to do it ourselves. For we LIKE being peasants, so don't trust God. So persecutions, Clean House.
So we know the so-called 'Church
Fathers', didn't tamper with Bible's Greek text; they were too ignorant of its
meaning. They
surely didn't know what Paul says. They
preserved Bible as a dead-finger relic, a magical thing -- and learned it? Not at all. Rather, a few scattered folks, probably
scribal monks, did learn and kept quietly growing; for to get Bible back then,
you had to be a monk or nun or duke who could pay for a copy. Or, inherit it from someone. Common folk were read Bible snippets. Scripture
was jealously kept away from the masses, instead of being taught them. When we're all in heaven, we'll learn who
these real heroes, are; for they made huge sacrifices to be
near a Bible they could daily study.
They're the hidden few proelpikotas, Buying Time; the Preparing Bride. So we
are still here!
We can be sure they were not Jeromes,
Augustines, Tertullians, Origens or anyone we call famous, now. For the famous
writings, are fatuous. Eloquence without
substance; bombast without basis; kindergarten theology, signifying little grasp
of Bible read. Mature Christians don't hold councils on whether Christ is God
or Trinity, valid; and they certainly
don't petition any government, to preside! Only deaf donkeys do. These folks' writings, prove them
donkeys. Maybe what's written in their
name, is invented. One hopes the real Ignatius wasn't such an
ignoramus; hopes, the real Justin
Martyr, was not bombastic or anti-semitic. Maybe some martyrs did mature; but
what we have written, is by fools. The mature don't seek martyrdom: Christ
didn't throw Himself at Pilate or the Sanhedrin. Only brutish baby
Christians, seek martyrdom to quell their guilt; petulant, political, obsessed
to claim self holy. The mature, are rather too busy just looking at Holy
Christ: in His Word.
And
that's Paul's message here, which of course is obvious from the text: History rides on the few learning Bible,
the proelpikotas,
not Constantine & Sons; certainly not, on deaf, loudmouth, scheming bishops
inventing 'succession', nikw-lawing over everyone, bastardizing Old
Latin to justify beheading Matthew 16:18, putting Peter's head atop
Christ's. Such Nicolaitans will be rock bottom
in Heaven's Society, just above the
King-James-Only Bible Nazis, who claim God couldn't keep His Word until 1611.
At the top of Heaven's Society, will be
a few God-grown kings almost no one knew, down here; who are crowned due to a lifetime of Learning and
Living on Bible. Completing
the Vote so Time will complete, the '56' of History becomes 70, at last! While the current, perennially-deaf
Christian generation stays apostate, till Shiloh Come.
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Meaning 3rd eudokian
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eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I: How Paul 'mates' the anaphora
to History
We already saw, in the eudokian anaphora Verse Note, how Paul
made the eudokian anaphora 'birth' the epainon; how the two sets of
anaphora relate textually, to our vast inheritance in Christ. Paul also uses that same intertwined
structure to reveal the TIMING. For the devil is always
in the details: HOW will it get done?
Hence two forces are
accounted, by weaving the anaphora within the chronology: A) faith freedom aka Autonomy, and B) Word Preserved, aka Bible. So Paul creates a piggybacked, interactive
meter, weaving eudokian and epainon anaphora together, to show
when and how Autonomy
of Bible comes
together; even despite massive Christian apostasy for the duration of the
Church Age, as really and prototypically evidenced by its first 400+ years -- deliberately
like the period from Jacob's entry into Egypt until the Exodus. This is John's point of departure in
Revelation 1 and 17. The Book of
Revelation is based on Ephesians 1:3-14's history, since that's how His Story
Post-Crucifixion, results in the building of His Body, post-Crucifixion. All in answer to, His Prayer in John 17. Let's see how Paul tells that story.
o
First eudokian anaphora runs between syllables = years 105-121. Trajan and Hadrian.
Birthing the Adoptive
Emperors, deemed a
'golden age'.
o
This
first anaphora thus has a witty title, taken from the phrase before the anaphora begins: huiothesian, Sonship. The Goal of God's Good Pleasure.
o
Paul
thus reminds the reader of Isaiah
53:10-11 and Romans 8, God's
Contract to Make Sons: for that is precisely what the three eudokian anaphora represent.
o
Second eudokian anaphora, syllables=years 215-231, is the time of the Severans.
Specifically, of the Julia
sisters who were
regents for their emperor kids. This period is known as the Crisis of the Third Century, which some historians date back to 193, and others date from 235, when Severus Alexander is murdered.
o
Its
title from the preceding clause: musterion.
This stands for pregnancy. The women run Empire, for their
kids. This fact ticked off both army and
Senate, eventually.
o
Distance between first and second benchmark is 126, pregnant number used in Isaiah 53 (short video)
for the countdown to Diaspora. (Longer
video with explanation on meter as prophetical calendar.)
A pregnancy is 'hidden', in that the
fetus cannot be seen. Idea of work-in-progress, which is
messy. Construction pending. Only the 'mother' knows the content, and of
course the immediate family. Us. And what's being constructed? WORD, Galatians 4:19, Colossians 1:25-27.
So that classic meaning
to
musterion, and
Paul's parallel to Isaiah
53:10-11, is very
clear, wry, witty. Especially, since here in verse
9, he's setting up the pleromatos language in verse 10, the wit
being Chronos who
eats his progeny. Get the pun? No?
Paul used it already, in Galatians 4:4, and 4:19.
John uses that pun, see Revelation 12. There, Satan is
depicted as acting like Chronos, since the Jews -- the people from whom
Messiah springs -- are made the Basis Of Time, Deut 32:8.
So in Revelation
12, Satan is depicted
as trying to swallow up the believer kiddies as soon as they are born. Born from Israel, yes it's literal in Revelation 12;
but in the broader sense, Galatians
-- we are all sons of
Abraham, through faith
-- so Satan wants to swallow us up, too.
So Paul is at pains for Christ to be BORN IN the Galatians -- they are
born so He can be borne in them so His Thinking can be born in them, not merely
positional salvation. But, experiential
sanctification.
o Hence our eudokian anaphora ends in verse 11,
syllables=years 308-320.
Time of Constantine, the guy who nearly killed Bible, by uniting Church and State.
o Its title from the preceding
clause, is energountos, God the Actor: same verb Paul pregnantly used in Romans 8:28.
Labor. Rape of the Cross causing
Birth of our Salvation, me amal
naphesho, Isaiah
53:11 -- our imputed
sins 'met' by His Counter-Thinking Doctrine (b'dato yatsdiq), hence
pregnancy and birthing ON the Cross, messy during construction -- and in history, John 17:14-17 prayer Answered, coming together to birth Word Preserved.
So to Answer to the rest of that same prayer, John 17:21-26. For that is Ephesians' theme: How John
17, Gets Done. (Remember, content of John 17 was
known long before John wrote it.)
o Distance between
second and third benchmark is 105; sum is same 231 syllables, as
in Daniel 9:24-27: how Church is used
to Bridge Time, to Tribulation.
So the eudokian anaphora's syllables=years, trace the
TIME PATH of A), faith freedom: how God creates Autonomy to Learn Word, despite devilish rulers.
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God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 1st eudokian, continued
So what 'story' does the structure of
the eudokian anaphora meter, tell?
o
First
eudokian 'stop' was years 105-121. Theme? Huiothesian, Sonship. Paul timed the
eta in thelematos, to Hadrian's accession; it was always contested, as you saw back in 114-121, William
Dodge Gray's book. God's Adoption
Contested, tied to the Imperium.
Clever parallel to succession wars among apostate
Christians then, Rev 1-3.
o
Trajan was ruling.
Trajan, like Nerva, was focused on SONSHIP,
succession, continuation of Empire.
To that end, Trajan found himself warring.
o
He
was too successful. He overextended his rule to the Persian Gulf. He learned he couldn't hold onto his
gains. (Like, Alexander.) So Trajan turned back. And
died, on the way back. Not before,
caving into Ignatius' egoistic pleasure over
martyrdom. Trajan's perplexed over the
fractious Christians, shown in his letters to
Pliny.
o
Thus
Trajan unwittingly brought the Roman empire to the brink of destruction (p.189,
William Dodge Gray),
due to concentrating his troops in the East, leaving the West insufficiently
defended.
o
Moreover,
by relying on the Senate, Trajan let
leadership fragment at home. The
Senate was always preoccupied with greedy
in-fighting. That's why a Caesar was
necessary. Hence as a republic, Rome
never could support itself in such grandeur; it needed constant imports of outside
labor, won by force, maintained by colonization; this it could not have, absent a strong
unifying hand, managing such outside assets. Since Rome was haughty about being Rome, it
didn't value barbarian territory, except for the money. So Rome was content to let a Caesar manage it
all, so long as he gave them due deference.
o
Trajan was forced by warring, to be an
absentee landlord. Absent the
structures Augustus had put in place, Rome would have
collapsed into petty fiefdoms.
o
Hadrian saw all that. In 114+, he
was in Syria, backing up Trajan's forces, witness to the Jewish and other uprisings in the wake of Trajan's too-fast gains.
Witness to Senate's infighting, via letters from Plotina (Trajan's wife),
and from others. Witness to Senate's own hatred of Hadrian,
for actually having a brain. Witness to
how the culture of Rome
would fragment, if
outside cultures possessed for security and money, were allowed to penetrate
Rome.
o
So to protect Rome's future, upon his own
accession Hadrian reversed his adopted father's occupation policy; by instead, consolidating gains. Hadrian thus traveled all over the Empire,
reforming the administration, rather than fighting. Hadrian focused on succession, not only naming Antoninus
(later 'Pius') long in advance -- but telling Antoninus who he had to name as his own successors. So too, Christians were soon busy aping
Ignatius, reversing God's New Testament
policy in Hebrews 9-10; instead, inventing
'succession' ideas based on jewishness; to wit, Hegesippus
and his pal in Bible ignorance, Irenaeus.
o GOD thus used the time, to disseminate the Word to make sons for The Son, John 17:14-17. Canon had just been completed in 96.
Now it was time to consolidate and transmit, protect it -- what Hadrian wanted for Rome, GOD wanted for the world.
Leviticus 26, alive and operating. For it's kinda hard to study Bible,
if you're beset with invaders. Christians
of this time were extremely fractious, though. They persecuted each other, and the fathers
of apostasy we wrongly laud as 'Church fathers' were the chief culprits.
Bible was being collected and disseminated,
but the rival factions differed over what books were from God, so real Bible books were often destroyed, as apostate factions fought
with each other. Rome had a hands-off
policy toward religion; under Trajan
and Hadrian, Christians
got no protection. So many Christians FLED, taking Word with them. Hence, protected it.
They had freedom of travel, as Rome was at peace.
o
Under
Hadrian, Jewish fractiousness caused loss of favor they had since Nerva. Accounts
here conflict. A
dubious legend (older
version) or
logic claims Hadrian allowed rebuilding Temple and Jerusalem, but he later
reneges. The
Jews react, culminating in Bar Kochba revolt. More
likely, while Hadrian toured, he ordered Jerusalem rebuilt, but
on pagan terms -- which the Jews initially misread as Jewish
terms. This 114-121
ends the first eudokian anaphora benchmark. Cliffhanger.
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God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 1st eudokian, continued
o
Now, Paul links up the eudokian first stop, with the epainon first stop, syllables=years 121-133.
So now Autonomy, links to Bible. Now EVERYONE had to go into Diaspora, taking the Word with them. Now
do you see why Paul writes 'INTO the Praise of the Glory OF His Grace'?
o
epainon anaphora meter: 334-133, 67 threes; 434-320, 38
threes. Sum = 105 threes or 45 sevens =
syllables (years) in Daniel 9:14 through 19. (See
Note F in http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF.) The 38
threes also = God's
Meter in Daniel 9:25-26. So Paul parallels then-future CHURCH history,
with those passages. Telling you what
KIND of Time it will be.
For the epainon anaphora covers B), for Bible.
How it's Birthed, nurtured, protected,
despite apostasy: the many copies bastardized, kidnapped, torn, burnt, mangled
over the ensuing centuries. For
how can anyone praise God absent a Word?
You can't know Him or praise Him, if you don't have His Thinking. And since the world's weal depends on that Word being set
before us, First Incarnate,
then into our heads -- well, then world
history is based on how
the Word's history is going. When the Word
is well accepted, history is at peace.
When not, history is at war. When
Christians reject Word -- as they do, here -- then war
for the rejectors, and peace for the acceptors, just as God via Leviticus 26 and Deut 28, long ordained.
So if you accept Word, you FLEE those warring.
You don't participate in 'Christian' political games, you don't
advertise; you Just Study Word. To do
that, you leave society, at least mentally. Which many then do, prompted by Razing Of Jerusalem, as this first epainon anaphora bookend, introduces. So many, run;
later, they'd become monks, nuns or menials working near Bibles. For Bible was progressively put under lock
and key; you counted yourself lucky if you saw it during services, got scribal
discards. So that's what many did:
quietly fit in, inwardly reject 'church' hierarchy as it grew. Some got Bibles
they could keep -- then God enabled them to leave. We know this given the monasteries that grew,
and laws to control them. So there was popular opposition.
So our first epainon anaphora bookend, is 121-133, when the Bar Kochba rebellion, commences. Time to flee; the warning signs to leave were there long before 132,
given Hadrian's presence and stated posture.
No wonder Paul allotted 12 syllables to the clause. That is where we leave it, for the moment.
o Next, 2nd eudokian anaphora, syllables = years 215-231.
This tangled time covers the Severans.
Severe. Starts with Severus' son
Basins, aka Caracalla, who was executed by Macrinus, who was executed by the plotting Julia sisters -- musterion, aha! -- resulting in, Heliogabalus.
Hidden too, were dingdongs Julius Africanus and Hippolytus; they courted the Julias by inventing a
Peter-first-in-Rome bishop list;
intended also, to oust Origen and the Rapture-touting Christians in
Rome. For the first time the word
'catholic' is used; Roman Callistus claims HIS church was 'catholic'; (a
different) Hippolytus retorts that instead HIS was the true 'catholic' church.
o The year? 218. Paul again marks it with eta in thelematos, same as he did for Hadrian. That's when Macrinus dies; and what he intended to build, reverses.
o So we are to understand a parallel
between 218 and 117. What is it?
Well, if you read the Severans link, you'd know: SONSHIP. The whole basis for empire was a
constitutional murk. So any claimant had
but two options: be the 'son' of the
currently-accepted Imperator, or be acclaimed as the successor by
the army. After Tiberius, the army had a deciding role. Nerva
sought to end that, by naming an heir, right away. This lasted until Commodus, who was murdered and then the army
became kingmaker, again. But this time,
Septimus -- a superstitious man who bought the army's acclamation through his
wife -- sought to claim a kind of sonship from M. Aurelius (even if via Commodus), to solidify that claim. So we see the Adoptive Emperor mechanism birthed with Nerva forward was accepted, now with 100 years' precedence to
legitimate it. How ironic: Hippy and
Juli baby sold the same succession lie to the Julias, so to win them over to
Churchinanity!
o Hence Paul ties SONSHIP as the theme, here at the second
eudokian benchmark,
which of course is the Real Play going on -- making sons from the Son of God Who
Became the Son of Man and fathered our salvation. While
everyone else, Christian and pagan alike, is busy inventing sonship,
successorship, out of thin air.
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eudokian 1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 2nd eudokian, continued
o Fathering, then requires mothering. Hence musterion, the title of this second eudokian benchmark;
for the sons are too young, so the mothers actually rule.
o Background: Septimus himself had died; heir/son Caracalla murdered brother Geta, bankrupted Rome;
then made everyone in the provinces a Roman citizen, so he could collect
extra taxes from them; then Caracalla was murdered by usurper general Macrinus: who had no noble or sonship tie, he honestly told the Senate.
o Lies win: Septimus
lied, claiming relationship to Commodus;
so new lies now, by the mothers: claiming incest, that Heliogabalus (aka Elagabalus by historians) and/or the younger Severus Alexander, were Caracalla's kids. Paid by the Julia sisters, army murders Macrinus, and the ladies' sons take the
purple. Helio baby adopts baby Alexander. Then one sister conspires with her mother against the other
sister, gets Helio murdered and now pious Severus Alexander rules. Well.
o
Equating
Deity and Motherhood
gave the imperium a blessed-by-the-gods sanctity; this cultic idea was part of Roman culture,
i.e., the Vestals were among the most respected religious
persons. The Julia sisters were of a rich priestly family from
Syria (where Hadrian was stationed when he got word he was
adopted). To be ruled by a mother
and too-young son, rankled both army and Senate. By 235, they
were ripe to rebel, due to troop casualties and concessions Alexander's mother made to the Persians in 231; and finally to the Germans, in 235.
So, the army then murdered him.
o So now too, lie of MOTHER
CHURCH is invented. Thus
Paul uses musterion, to title this 2nd eudokian benchmark. 1st benchmark, Bible still matters to
Christians; so too in the secular realm, Senate still matters to Emperors, who constitutionally
derive their legitimacy, from it. So
here, 2nd benchmark, eta in 2nd thelematos: Christians don't value Bible, but instead nikolaus, their 'bishops'. Just
as Christ warned against, in Rev 1-3. Their silly 'councils' began
during Pius.
o For in 215-231, the army, not the
Senate, calls the shots; apostates like Irenaeus,
Tertullian, Origen and their spawn, solidify
Church apostasy by 'mothering' doctrines that Bible refutes.
Only women run SPQR. The
imperium, 100 years after Hadrian
ascended -- first eta
in 1st thelematos
-- now usurps and dwarfs the constitution and economy, of SPQR. So 'church fathers' also usurp Bible with
wild claims 'Church' is sole salvific institution + intercessory Mary (in Latin: search on '776' and '277',
respectively). Over time, more extra-Italy land once
governed by Senate, become imperial provinces, to save expense of running
them. Under the Severans, Empire was mostly owned by the Imperator;
the Senate had little real power. The army became an appendage of the imperium,
which paid its wages. So in the
name of defending Rome: power,
administration and economic control devolved onto whomever headed the imperium.
Due to laziness and corruption, in the Senate. Same with Bible: lazy Christians delegated its defense, to
priest-elites. So now bishops bypass
Bible, bury it. So too, Rome: army buries Senate.
o A third tie, besides lying and
'mothering': standardizing law. Septimus,
like Hadrian, was keen on a bureaucracy of imperial
laws, in the name of reform. The Adoptive Emperors continued this; the Severans
claimed the mantle of Aurelius (i.e., as relatives of Commodus).
So bureaucratizing continued under the Severans and solidified. Romans
deemed the Severan epoch a wise period of law,
hence Paul's other sardonic verse 9 keyphrase, sophiai
kai phronesei for Septimus' rule. Under the Julia sisters, such law distanced the Senate from effective control. The 'bishops' did likewise, created an ecumenical
structure of many 'laws' not in Bible, mimicking the Pharisees who had done
the same thing, to Israel. Thus a
huge anti-Biblical system interposed itself between you and God.
o The fourth tie: claim of top-down,
divine authority. The early Romans overthrew this immemorial
claim, by people electing rulers.
Under the Severans, the 'gods' were now invoked to justify
usurping the constitution -- Senate was denuded, though cloaked by flattery, musterion again. The Adoptive Emperors promoted 'true Roman' culture, hence
'gods'. But the Severans favored oriental 'gods', which during Heliogabalus, provoked uproar. To flatter the Senate, Julia Maesa thus made Alexander an appointee of Roman gods, whom
the boy revered (alongside
Abraham and Christ). Thus she distanced the right of Imperator away from the Senate. So too, Bible's
doctrine of the local church electing its 'bishop', was gradually
usurped by a top-down
claim of a regional 'see' electing local
'bishops', as if the 'see' were ALONE appointed by God.
Thus, Rev 17 popedoms were
born: at first, 5-10 rival, regional
'sees'. Then only Rome,
until the Great Schisms of 1054 and 1378.
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How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 2nd eudokian, continued
o
So
what does GOD mean by these four historical ties in
the second eudokian benchmark? Why did He give Paul this message? For we can surely see even here, that Paul's
word order is deliberate. Again, Greek
word order is flexible: the same
meanings can be communicated by the same words but in a different order. So the order chosen, obviously matches the Timing of His Story Yet-To-Happen; and is intended to be, a prophetic
WARNING.
o
The
word ties are sophiai
kai phronesei, musterion and thelematos.
They stand for law, motherhood, succession, with musterion being the keyword titling the
benchmark. Something-in-development
related to sonship, which has yet to give birth. So now we have to look at how bad Church is,
during this period.
o
To
tell us about that, Paul introduces the Temple Trio, the third nested anaphora
we saw related textually, back in verse 11's note. First Temple Trio
was proetheto, ending verse 9. Means something put on public
display, originally a meal for a guest -- i.e., for the god you wanted to
honor. In verse 9, God put His Son on
Display, as an Offer for the world to 'eat' (believe). So here we look at how Christ is put on display,
by
Church, in Paul's satirical tracking of the time.
o
And
when we look at that Time, we see an ugly parallel picture on display. Just as ugly, as the portrait of the Severans.
· Succession Lies made up to gain power. Here, lie of apostolic succession, but it's the
same kind of lie as the Julia sisters tell. Oh, we had
incest with Caracalla, and these are his sons.
Oh, the apostles ignored 1Cor15:1-10's requirement that to be called
'apostle', THE RESURRECTED CHRIST MUST PERSONALLY APPOINT YOU; so the apostles ignored CHRIST, instead
appointed us to replace them, as we are the New Israel.
Says who? THEY say it. Bible flatly contradicts. But no one READS the Bible. Each of
these doctrinally-deficient, unfairly-lauded 'fathers' urge slavish obedience
to the 'bishop' -- which in successive redactions of their writings, morphed
into a universal 'catholic' church. (The writings never claim any ONE head of the Church, and of course no
popes were at Nicaea -- but rather many alleged heads, with Rome claiming
pre-eminence, but never sole eminence.
Everyone knows the writings are doctored; scholars have long tried to
separate out the doctored parts from whatever might actually belong to the
named writer. Just read the prefaces to Schaff's collection.)
· Politics and money, claims of Divine
support. The Julia sisters first came to power by outbidding Didius Julianus.
Now they gain power again, outbid Macrinus,
then play on the old Roman cult of domus. So what's the apostate Christian
counterpart? Invented 'bishop' lists,
based on a claim Church is New Israel.
Coupled with, appealing to
Caesar in letters. Rather than,
praying to God. In short, appealing to Caesar and progressively
PLAYING Caesar.
It's an old gambit. First you pretend to be holy and right and
nice, writing out a grievance to someone POLITICAL. Key is, to make your appeal so
exaggerated and obnoxious, the political leader must reject your petition. Then you can claim the high ground of
martyrdom. Then you mass political
support among those who pity you or share your 'faith', so now you have funds
and bodies, to threaten the
state. Old game, played millions of
times, the Roman Emperors were all skilled in it. So were the Christian 'fathers', who could
but quote Bible, never once understood it! Christ said, the kingdom is NOT of this
world. These apostate 'fathers' all
try to MAKE the kingdom of this world, in their image. Theirs.
Not God's.
· Brother killing brother.
Just as Caracalla murdered Geta and Julia
sisters got Macrinus and Heliogabalus killed, so too Christians persecute Christians with windy
tomes, and 'laws' to gain power. Like,
when to celebrate
Easter! Wasn't Exodus 12 or John 19
in THEIR Bibles? See: they didn't know Word.
This is the most telling. Their writings don't help anyone grow
spiritually in the Word.
Instead, Bible to them is a political weapon to kill opposition; their
writings are petty, bitter apologetics, not edifying. Yeah, everyone calls the other a heretic, for no one calls on GOD. There is no exegesis or other Bible analysis for its own sake.
Rather, only argumentation. And
shallow ideas of Bible. Mouthing it,
absent any understanding. Blind
guides.
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Add now, a virulent anti-semitism.
Search on 'Jew' in their writings.
Ireneaus, Tertullian and Origen also lie about Peter
and John (search link on 'Rome' thrice, then
'boiling oil'). They malign James (yeah, he's gonna
break the Mosaic law, live inside Temple, enter Holy of Holies UNWASHED). Before them, jerks Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr. Same anti-semitism, self-praise,
effusiveness. More follows in 'Hall of Shame', below. Point is, they warred over caesarship,
too. The religious kind.
·
Regulation
after regulation. Severus'
reign resulted in multiplying bureaucracy.
So the 'fathers' claimed an ecumenical structure like the Jews had: added
many rituals
and hierarchy and
councils (on few issues during Commodus, but as regulations, in 3rd century) -- to GAIN POWER against
rivals.
o
In short, Civil War Went On
In Christendom, So Civil War Went On In Rome, which God designed to house and
protect, Christendom. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, playing live -- negatively -- just as God always
promised. That was their own mouldy 'meal' of 'Christ' proetheto'd: on display, to the world.
o
Hence
verse 9's proetheto is sarcastic, metered at seven syllables = years 231-238: apostasy so bad, the
World Should End. Yeah, and God even used the apostate New
Prophecy movement in Rome and Alexandria back then, to warn of the surgical persecutions to ensue. Rapture/Trib conditions happen when Church
is too apostate. So God cleans House,
Lev26, Deut28, 1Kings9. John
presented that theme in Rev 1-3; hence Rev 4:1 is the Rapture,
bracketed by two meta tauta clauses (open and close, walling off Church Age from Trib).
Ironic, as Origen allegorized away the Millennium, and
his view would replace it. Echoed
by, the new, fake Peter-first-in-Rome-during-CLAUDIUS (!) bishop lists, created by Origen's rival
Demetrius, using Julius Africanus; which a second Hippolytus, aped.
Hippy and Origen got close
to the Severan mothers; Hippy/Pontianus get exiled/martyred, 231-232. Severus Alexander is executed by usurping general Max Thrax, who next is murdered by hungry
soldiers in 238, favoring yet another teenage
puppet. And so it goes, musical purple
chairs until Diocletian.
o
Thus
ends the 2nd eudokian anaphora bookend at 231
and the Temple Trio's first bookend of proetheto, at 238:
civil war over sonship, succession. Word's History sets World's History. Word's History: We Used Bible to Levy Tyranny. So world
history is bad, "Crisis of the Third Century". Roman imperium had no constitutional
basis. Liars claimed apostolic
succession sans Biblical basis.
They vied for power based on acclamation. Might
makes right, when God's Out Of
Sight.
But God
lives. That's why He had Paul use musterion as the title for
this second bookend. Something hidden to be birthed. As a
result of all this civil war, the Roman empire effectively breaks up into
spheres of power, so the few Christians who are learning and
living on Bible, can vote with their feet. Maybe they vote to work in a monastery, to get
a copy of Bible, or at least hear it.
Maybe they go East, outside of Roman influence. Maybe they go north, or deeper into
Africa. They needn't travel so far
to safety, if the Empire is broken up.
So, it is. That's the purpose of any disaster, diaspora exodus to safer places. Where you can study in relative peace. The center is rotted, so now the outer
parts break off. Thus Bible --
and its study -- will be preserved.
Thus
God creates Autonomy to preserve Bible. We're still in the first epainon anaphora, as well as in the second
eudokian. Showing, that the 'praise of the Glory of His
Grace' is being met -- despite Church. For pharisaical
religiosity of the 'church fathers' and their ilk becomes progressively
obvious; people start quietly voting
with their feet. It became hard to get a
Bible, as the factions hoarded them: using Bible like bait. So you became a monk; or, if you could get a Bible, maybe you began
a small outpost of your own, like David going to Adullam. You kept quiet about having a Bible,
lest someone assert authority over you, to get it. Of course Satan isn't idle; someone catches
you, sooner or later. So you became
nomadic, a trader who kept moving. In
short, one could stay independent, so long as the state wasn't
'christian'. But it soon WOULD
be, so God here fragments its
future. By little groups,
enclaves, even villages. They were goofy
in doctrine, too. But they weren't
political. Takes time to mature in
Word; and they were studying it. Just because.
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1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
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How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian, continued
o So we see how He preserved Word in the third eudokian bookend, which runs from syllables =
years 308-320.
This is the time
of Constantine's rise.
This final eudokian bookend is titled energountos, God
as the Actor -- not Constantine. For Constantine hallucinates HIMSELF
working everything together! Title for energountos, was prothesin: Temple Shewbread, 2nd of the Temple Trio.
It sets up Constantine, via Diocletian's own 'shewbread plan'. For God
Equates Constantine With Diocletian. That bad.
Same benchmarking Daniel used, in Daniel 9: specifically, his two 58's in Daniel 9:11-12,
the cause for the 1st Temple's destruction, as the Temple Trio link, showed:
o
Verse 10's
textual theme sets up Diocletian: God brings
all Time together in Church.
Historically, it's the 235-284
Crisis of the Third Century, aftermath of Severus Alexander. We saw in the Chrono
Chart, how each clause in verse 10, covered that time. Due to Church voting badly (70 syllables,
231-301), the Crisis occurred.
o
Diocletian's rise, began at the end of the last clause in
verse 10, aptly titling his rise as 'all matters on earth'. That's what Diocles thought he was, The Uniter. As soon as he killed a boar. Which he did, in July or November, 284. He personally dated his succession from December 283, when Carus
died. Not knowing, July was Jewish
priestly course of the Boar, Hezir (third week July or January). So verse 10 ends
the year of Carus' death, too. For Diocletian is the Ruler of the Earth,
get it?
o
Verse 11
thus begins with Diocletian himself, in 284.
It's a cynical election clause: Diocletian's view of himself, and his Empire
plan.
o
Verse
11's second clause is a bitingly ironic phrase, prooristhentes kata prothesin.
Literally, foreordained
as per Temple Shewbread,
the last two words blanded out as 'plan', in all Bible translations. Masks its Jewishness. Yeah, it was the plan of MAKING THE BREAD
that Presented Christ as the Bread of Life, the Food Offering to God. Presentation At Court. Apostate Christians were then busy erasing
Israel, too, claiming to replace her; ignoring, Ephesians 2. For they had their own plan, rather than
God's.
o
Keys
off 70 syllables=years earlier, proetheto in verse 9: as God Set Christ before us, so too we
who believe are made LIKE Him, an offering Presented to God.
o
The
prothesin sarcasm is plain: Diocletian turned Imperator into a presentation, an
ostentatious office; you must
present yourself prostrate as if to God;
for he claimed to be the direct agent forJupiter.
Divesting rulership from the Senate, in the name of Roman unity!
o And why not? The
'church' set itself up as THE go-between:
you were only saved, if the 'church' said so. Tyrannical Monopoly. In the name of unity!
o
At
this point, it's 301. So what does Diocletian do?
Control bread and other prices! The 'bishops' did the
same Revelation 13 thing! You had to
have their 'mark' of approval, or you were persecuted. So of course, third clause in verse
11 is seven syllables, GOD
Works All The Shewbread.
So let's see that, next.
o This 308-320 period was covered in detail within the Chrono Chart. So here we focus on Paul's biting wordplay,
almost syllable by syllable. Its
setup begins in 301-308.
A seven-syllable clause denoting Trib-quality time, Christians maximally
apostate...
o tou ta panta energountos is the whole phrase for 301-308.
To remind you that GOD is working everything together for
good, Romans 8:28.
So
o tou ta covers Diocletian's
attempt to control the economy, in 301
(the pricing edicts and
other changes). Which backfires. This attempt should remind Christians
of Revelation 13. For Diocletian will attempt to do the whole tou ta
panta energountos phrase, as if he himself were the agent of God. Just like Kristallnacht would later
be, Diocletian's pricing edicts constitute an opening
salvo of tyranny; the next 19 syllables
will each warn Christians to LEAVE. 19
years of warning.
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1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
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3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
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How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian, continued
o pan covers the Diocletian
persecution in 303, which had its reprieves; it wasn't
evenly enforced, especially in the West;
so you had opportunities to flee.
Yeah, Diocletian goes after pan, everyone; Galerius and later Daza add their own edicts to Diocletian's two.
So God uses the delays to make pan opportunities for people to vote with
their feet. For God knows what's going
to happen, next. This is like the second half of the
Trib; the real future Trib has a
mid-point with an exit window (see my TribChrono.pdf), so this
reminds the reader of it.
o panta covers Diocletian's illness, 304, just after he'd celebrated his 20th
anniversary (remember, he
dated his own accession back to Carus' death).
Similar to Nebuchadnezzar, the man is obviously humbled. So all he worked so hard to accomplish,
availed him nothing. His illness
creates succession in-fighting; and thus provides Christians, with another
exit window. See, God really
does accomplish all. All to save the Word from what He foreknows, will happen to
it.
o energountos covers 305-308; spans Diocletian's retirement and the ensuing working-together foibles, of the Tetrarchy (shifting alliances, Maxentius' usurpation at Rome, father Max resuming the purple, Constantius' death and son Constantine's
marriage to Max's daughter Fausta, defeat of Severus, Galerius' ignominious retreat from Italy); culminating in the meeting at Carnuntum: where a not-yet-broken Diocletian, refuses to budge. Canny way to make everyone get along. Working something together by doing
nothing. Finally, he gets the
idea. His partners didn't, though. Still, by his refusing to take sides, the
resulting fragmentation means the persecution he launched, becomes a political
football: with the result that Christians get a reprieve. Exit window, again. For believers who have Word. Thus God preserved
His Word. Thus the 7-year period ends,
so now it's time to regroup.
o kata covers the period from 309 to 310, the machinations of Maximinius and his son Maxentius.
At the end, the father dies. At
the beginning, he ran from Constantine to Diocletian (Carnuntum) -- and now, back to Constantine again -- all to either gain support for
Maxentius -- or, to get support for killing his
own son. Nice guy. So kata Maximinius, he should return to power. But kata GOD, he should die, qatal; for if he does, the
ensuing succession squabbles open yet another exit window. So he dies of his own devising, having tried
at Arles and then maybe in Constantine's own house, to kill Constantine.
Meanwhile, Galerius gets a genital illness and takes a
whole year to die, after trying in vain to oust Maxentius from Rome. His persecute-Christian edicts are still
active, but since he's sick, people don't enforce them much.
o ten boulen covers 311 to 313. Now, a Eusebius
or Lactantius might wax loquacious and vicious,
exaggerating or inventing 'the truth' -- to gloat here over Max, Galerius, and Daza's deaths. As if God vindicated Constantine.
Those (ahem) 'fathers' couldn't read Bible; for here Paul proves the
opposite meaning. Consider:
· ten = 311, Galerius dies (see Appendix II); that
triggers an alliance between Licinius
and Constantine; Daza reacts, creates his own alliance with Licinius and Maxentius. Now, Galerius dies after he issues his own (30 April 311)
tolerance-of-Christianity proclamation. He's really the second guy to do
it. Not Constantine and Licinius. The first
guy to proclaim toleration, was Maxentius,
just after he usurped the purple in Rome (October 306).
Constantine, not to be outdone, grants amnesty (hence legal right to be a Christian), and
return of property to his own realms. Maxentius
had only granted legal right. So you
see, all this pro-Christian stuff reflected the popularity of Christianity, turned into politics -- going on, ever since the Severans.
· bou = 312. The 'bou' prefix in Attic signifies something
huge and monstrous. Cute. Bou-ghee man gonna get you.
· So the enemy of Rome dies that day,
equus lapsu from Milvian Boat Bridge-Out, Maxentius; Constantine
takes over Rome, via faked in hoc signo --
faked, as God NEVER does that stuff.
Canon is closed. Only a crass
liar like Eusebius or Lactantius, makes God do pet
tricks. He didn't even do that for
CHRIST!
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· Faked, as first Maxentius and then Galerius issued their tolerance edicts; so now Constantine must compete! Maxentius
reneged on his 306 protection for Rome, and didn't apply
it in the provinces. Barnes
says Constantine issued an informal version of the tolerance edict, in late
312.
·
Faked,
as Constantine played
the same in hoc bimbo game using PAGAN gods, vision
of Apollo offering him 120 years victory! -- back in 310.
· So hey:
just change the
WHO and the sign, in 312. Sucker born every minute.
· Yeah, 120 years as in Genesis 6, as in
4-generation curse, indeed
the Empire's future! Paul stops at 434.
Demons know Paul's meter. But
who got the joke?
· For Constantine's
sons DESTROY all
male heirs, and themselves die by 361, absent sons; Constantine's daughters and one granddaughter are barren, the whole line dying out by 383. End progeny. (Also search on 'stemma', here.) [Apollo vision is demonic, dual-entendre
like Sibylline
Oracles: like the Halys River and
Maxentius-consultation quotes. Demons
use truth to mock the recipient and witness to
Bible. Koran or Book of Mormon,
employ similar burlesque. So too, UFO
and ghost 'encounters'. ]
· Oh, and Satan's pre-fall name is Apollo,
aka MorningStar. Christ is THE Morning Star, get the pun? 'Apollo' is derived from apolumi,
Destroy. Same demon guy who
bugged John Keel in Mothman Prophecies, with backwards Latin. (Re backwards Latin, search on 'Lanulos' in http://www.brainout.net/SatTacExamp.htm#Mothman.)
· So read this as in hoc hoaxo, a
political gambit for who gets Christian support, Constantine or Licinius. The alliance between the two was after Galerius died.
· If you were a real Bible-learning
Christian, you'd take this as your cue to FLEE Roman rule.
Paul warns of it, 250+ years in advance.
Christians who got Ephesians would know the timeline. The few who really studied Bible, passed that
knowledge down to their kids. They will
be musterion, hidden.
· boulen = 313. Nuptials and Edict of Milan.
Again, this is a tool to win Christian support. Daza
issues his own version, April 30, 2nd anniversary of Gallerius' own
(sarcastic) Toleration Edict, the day he goes to fight Licinius.
Again, to win Christian support.
So their boulen is to gain political power. God's boulen is to free Christians from apostate mellein-esesthei,
Catholic church. For God knows what will
happen after the dust settles and Constantine
wins.
· So witness Paul's Inspired boulen sarcasm:
you apostate Christians and the Tetrarchy WANT Tyranny in My Name, just as Diocletian decreed. But for 'your' side. But God WANTS Freedom, and I'll get it.
For the Edict opened up another exit window, like Purim, for the
Christians to get OUT. They should have
been alerted to what's coming, since there was obvious competition to curry
Christian favor. God condemned
Revelation 17 politicking.
o
tou thelematos autou covers 314 to 320. The e is year 316,
when Diocletian dies.
Appendix II
goes through that timeline, since scholars are now in two 'camps': a)
those holding to the (correct) 316
date, and b) those who lately think Diocletian
died in 311 (or by 313). Paul uses 316, shows the deceased's intent, failed:
· Trajan's 'son' Hadrian,
was first e in the first
eudokian anaphora;
he reversed his Adopted 'father's' policies, thus saving the Empire. Dio and
the Senate felt that Hadrian won Empire by trickery, a faked WILL
by Plotina, Trajan's wife.
Stress on Sonship, to keep SPQR intact. So demands a WILL of Adopted
Emperors.
· The second e was Heliogabalus, in the 2nd
eudokian anaphora;
his female regents were both responsible for setting him up by
trickery, putting him down, and holding the Empire together the meanwhile
through the 2nd Adopted son: Severus Alexander reversed everything. Et après
lui, le deluge: no heirs.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian, continued
· Same, for third e here in the 3rd eudokian anaphora: when Diocletian
dies, the Adoptees undo all Diocletian hoped to achieve. Just as Diocletian, everyone uses trickery
in the name of Empire, and everyone wants to kill the other guy.
· Diocletian used trickery to justify murdering Aper. To recast the
role of Emperor, and sideline the Senate.
· Constantine used trickery, to win against Maxentius.
And then, to control Church (or so he thought.)
· Church used trickery, to control politics and then Constantine.
· They all used the trickery of marriage
and treaties, laws. So, they all
die.
· But they continue the dangerous Diocletian LEGACY of
church united to state
control, bureaucracy, and divided empire. [Which briefly unites again under the
Adopted but unrelated Theodosius, who then by WILL divides the Empire
between his two sons: who are children then.
Just like the Severan kids were. So the regents use trickery on
the kids, for they WILL to war with each other.
And, to be fair, they did preserve Rome as much as they undermined
it. So, even Theodosius' lines die out by the fourth generation.]
o
matos autou
covers 317 to
320. Clever.
THEY will: but the object (ma) of
their will, fails. Yet God's Object (ma converts
verb to noun), is achieved.
o
So
what did God's thelema, Adoptive
Will achieve? Autonomy for Bible via Diaspora. For now CHURCH persecutes, so everyone must go
into Diaspora again, taking Word with them. For Church nearly
destroys Bible. Paul links this eudokian 3rd stop, with the epainon 2nd stop, at
syllables = years 320-334. The summed epainon meter overlaps
here, just as 2nd eudokian had overlapped, to stress the overlap's weight:
1st-to-2nd benchmark was 133-334,
but 2nd-to-3rd is 320-434.
Why? The doctrinally-retarded Council
of Nicaea is the supreme proof of Church apostasy: Rev 17, baby. It Institutionalized
Persecution; millions would die,
as a result. It's positively criminal that no 'fathers'
bother to LEARN Bible; instead, they rely on their own hearsay, 2Cor10:12. So
let's trace why God equates
Constantine with Diocletian, why God Blasts The 'Church Fathers', here in the 2nd epainon. To skip this long subsection, click here.
GIST: Church is completely apostate. It is not His
Glory. It lives for political power and
human approbation. Its hypocrisy, lies
and trickery, exude from Church
Father
writings, linked below. Our Naked Hall
of Shame. Stains, not Saints. Yet as in the Emperor's New Clothes,
they cheep flowery words -- so we carnal, undiscerning, Bible-ignorant
Christians, bedeck them 'fathers'. Our
'hall' goes from 1st-century through year 320,
where the 2nd epainon anaphora begins.
o
First
up, the bilious Clement
of Rome (30-100) with his Scripture diarrhea
(used to gain
power) and outright
lies against Christ, betraying his
power grab for apostleship,
contravening 1 Corinthians 15:1-10 -- and even claims phoenixes real, to depict the
Lord's Resurrection! What an
insult against Christ.
o
Next,
'Barnabas' (d.100), whose usurper,
anti-semitic XIII has Church inherit but Israel, removed. So all those OT heroes, get squat? Ever-popular lie.
o
Next,
oh-how-holy-I-am
Ignatius
(30-107), spews letters
during a six month cruise to Rome, to preen as a martyr. (Norm
is 20 days' by sea, tops; 60
days, by land.)
o
Next, arch anti-semite 'mathetes' (d. 130). Yeah, student of hating
the Jews. Bible, he but mouths; he clearly never grasped the Mosaic Law.
o
Next,
ol' Polycarp
(65-155). Pick: the goofy account of his
'martyrdom' -- God doing pet tricks to praise an old man who misread
Bible? Or, the man's own writings? For Polycarp
like Clement, is full of Scripture
diarrhea. Just strings verses
together, no grasp of them.
Body-oriented. Mistakes outers as
inners, praises fasting and chastity as spiritual. Mosaic Law re fasting was a CONVENIENCE of
omitting food, to study Bible without distraction. Not to preen. King David wasn't chaste. So then spirituality must be something
higher, yes? Polycarp never learned the Scripture he obviously
memorized. Instead, his 'bible' came
from his fellow apostates.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian Hall of Shame, continued
o
Next,
Papias
(70-155) enjoyed lying about John, Mary, Judas and heaven -- which
Bible contradicts, of course. So Papias couldn't read Revelation himself to know it was
valid, but goes
by what other apostates say. HEARSAY evidence is not admissable! But oh, carnality
ONLY accepts hearsay. Spirituality justifies based on WORD. But the carnal, seek the world. So they value hearsay, rather
than Word. To reject the Jews, of course
(see that 'hearsay' link).
o
Next,
anti-semite
Justin Martyr (110-165), writing venom to malign
Jews, via 'frailty'=Trypho.
To spew his anti--God,
anti-semitism
(Church replaces Israel!), Justin butchers The Old Jewish Testament. So full of bombast and going-to-Caesar,
not God. His silly 'martyrdom' account befits his goofy writing.
o
Aped
by, Hegesippus (110-180). A Hebrew? Given what he
says about James, he wouldn't know Mosaic Law if it bit him. He used Clement and Justin's
mangled Bible notions, to first craft a 'bishop list' from James' jewishness: for oh, church=new
Israel? James isn't
from Levi; did they never read OT, Eph 2, Hebrews 10? Jerome repeats that lie, so he
never learned Bible, either. (Search on 'James' in that link.) Hey: you can translate, without ever learning what you translate.
o Ireneaus (120-202) loves lies,
too. Calls his apostasy,
universal apostleship. Then proves
he lies, as he
writes against other Christians.
Word is a gun to fire. So, he
never learned it; he doesn't grasp
Trinity nor that
the SON created. But sounds
good. Until you THINK OVER what he says.
o
So
too, these 2nd-century goofballs: prurient Hermas (d.160); bombastic,
ascetic Tatian
(110-172); self-praising,
Bible-embellishing
'Theophilus' (168-181); Athenagoras (d.177) who pleads-to-Caesar
but not God; the weird, legalistic Clement
of Alexandria
(153-193-217) -- who never read Matt. 15:11, 18; Mk. 7:20.
o
Let's
not forget the emotional, hopelessly shallow Tertullian (145-220). He blithely invents or twists Bible, belittles Paul to
advance Peter, castrates Word to invent 'Church'
as ONE institution of fictitious unity. Holy Spirit is effete, but Tertullian's TRADITION is infallible --
to justify power
grab by Rome. Gaily claims John escaped boiling oil, yet when elderly fled
a bathhouse, to avoid a bathing heretic! All bundled with his lie of Apostolic Succession! So he claims slapstick, 'Book of Enoch'
is genuine. In that same link, spews the
tired anti-semitic lie that Hebrew Bible started with Ezra. Which lie Will
Durant and the video series EMPIRES,
repeats. Yeah, Ezra made up the
Psalms and the first five books of the Bible, not Moses and David. Isaiah is a fake, Daniel too.. What, can
no one tell the Hebrew is 1400 bc,
in the Pentateuch? Moses didn't talk
like Isaiah or Daniel or Ezra, and the place names CHANGED over the centuries..
o
Not
to be outdone, is Minucius Felix (d. 210). Prolix, is more
like it. But entertaining. Followed by, a very anti-semitic Commodianus (d.240).
o
Next,
our boy Origen (185-230-254). Nice mixed-up
guy, who can't grasp
PLAIN BIBLE on Lot, Abraham, begats and histories. They're all 'mysteries' and 'dark sayings'.
So he allegorizes
Scripture out of context, tangles himself
up in knots. But he worked hard and
well on preserving Bible. Pity he
never understood it.
o Sigh. Next guy, is an influential gossip who maybe invented
the 4th 'bishop
list' Eusebius uses; yet like E., can't count Bible begats: Hippolytus (170-236).
Disciple of Irenaeus.
Hippy loves lying about Peter, John; oh, and Matthew was originally in Hebrew?! Oh, and he claims Earth is 5500 years old
when Christ came! E. said 5199, not much better.
Golly, and we LAUD these dingdongs?
(Bible says Christ died in year 4136
from Adam's FALL, not 'creation'.
Some scholars posit TWO Hippolytuses, see
Chapter 8 of Bishops Lists, by Robert Lee Williams.)
o
Next
idiot, doctrinally justifies persecuting Jews by twisting Word, naturlich. Who? Arch anti-semite Cyprian
(200-251), another
martyr spawn of mendacious Tertullian. Sheer bombast. Legalistic to the core. Can't discern, Lord's Prayer is
a Beginner's Guide?! real
spiritual prayer, is John 17. But he never learned it.
o
Next,
Caius (180-217). Read his whopper -- oh, John asked the
disciples to fast for three days, before he AGREED to write his Gospel. Yeah, mixing up Esther's 3-day request,
before she petitioned Ahasuerus. Mixing
up Acts1:23-26, dictate-to-God election of Matthias, who God rejected (replaced with James, see 1Cor15:1-10).
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I links: 1st eudokian 1st
eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian
2nd eudokian God's Meaning 3rd eudokian 3rd
eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian Hall of Shame,
continued
o
Next
Roman anti-semite,
Novatian (210-280). But at least
he's well-organized. Yet can't explain
Trinity. Instead, he just rails,
bluffs and then sidesteps
the question. Legalistic. Can't read 1Cor10:25-28, as Novatian had a weak
conscience. So he was carnal, a
spiritual newborn: like his name.
o
Next
dingdong is Gregory Thaumaturgus (205-240-265). Another Scripture-diarrhea
adept; sad thing is, he was supposed to
be a law
student. He thought Origen, who took the eunuch verse in Bible too
literally and then allegorized it all away -- Greg
baby though Ori was a spiritual giant. Yikes.
Which is sillier: the guy's own
ignorance of 1Cor10:25-28, or the (yellow)
modern commentary? Look here
and decide. The rest of what he writes, is worse. End Gregory.
o
Next
spawn of Origen is merrily called Dionysius the Great (200-265). See
how petty. Same as Pharisees. Motions absent meaning. Note how the most Important Day of the
Year is trivialized into WHAT HOUR one should stop fasting. Incredible: what CHRIST did is bypassed,
2Tim3:5 playing live. End Dionysius.
Let's avoid him.
o
Next,
Comrade Julius
Africanus
(200-245). Like Hippolytus,
this guy can't calculate years from Adam, nor calc Daniel. Oh, and he FIRST invented a 'bishop list'
claiming Peter 'bishop' at ROME pre-Paul -- when Claudius had BANNED
Christians from Rome?! Can't read
Nehemiah, either. Duh: 52 days aren't
enough to rebuild Jerusalem. Dan
9:24ff is GOD's decree, no human king's.
But hey: BIBLE's nothing, compared to 'church father' hearsay! So our eschatology remains screwed up.
o
Miscellaneous Dingbats. Here we have late 200's
gems, like convoluted
and INCORRECT calculation of Easter (ignoring Exodus 12 and John 19, of course); obtuse description of Hypostatic Union
(what, didn't they have
Philippians 2 or Hebrews 1?); abuse of Paul's
being a virgin (so they
can't read 1Cor7) -- as
usual, ASSuming abstinence is ipse spiritual, like any pagan would. But one breath of fresh air
just before Diocletian's persecution. Sigh: enter 270,
church power-mad
tyranny; and even in 307
-- in Upper Egypt, so under Galerius'
or Daza's
persecution edicts -- still power grab,
too. Sicker, but fun to read, is this overpraise of
virgins. Didn't anyone realize,
PAGANs praise virginity? Bible
praises thinking, not abstinence,
Eph1:18! God using Paul, praises Mary's thinking by aping her meter, see my Magnificat
videos.
o
Lactantius, (260-330). Diocletian and Constantine's time, but his writing stops at 313.
Sycophant. Gloater. Loves to lie to sell
something. Makes up any old story
or exaggerates
with venom, with zero concern
that he lies
before God. And they're not even clever
lies. Tell me: if you rejected the purple TWICE, pleading
retirement, would you starve yourself if your statue were taken down -- since
it was ATTACHED to your enemy's? No:
if anything you'd celebrate the disassociation!
So are you surprised Lactantius lies about
Constantine's conversion? Oh, Licinius receives
dictation from an ANGEL! Magic inability
to fight! [Lest you say, 'oh, he's just a product
of his times, everyone lied like that' -- oh?
I thought living for Christ was supposed to make you LIKE CHRIST -- not,
like the times. This guy is just another
apostate church liar. Just like his
times, but not like God's Word. Contradicting
himself. It's hard to believe that
the guy who wrote that last link is the same Lactantius. So maybe the lurid stuff is written by
someone else. Slap on a famous name,
like the junk written in the name of Adam, Seth, Enoch, Abraham, Patriarchs,
Peter, etc. Mad Magazine stuff.]
o
Next:
Victorinus, died circa 304. His 'exposition' on Revelation
utterly proves him a Bible-ineptizoid (search on 'paps', then start reading).
Note how he twists everything, including Rev 7, just like Origen –
to mean CHURCH. What, no TWELVE TRIBES? Religious carnality, at its worst. When you cut
the Jews who are CHRIST'S INHERITANCE (hence Millennium) out of history, God
cuts YOU out from history.
No wonder God allowed Diocletian's edicts!
o
Eusebius (260-340) is the last liar on this
list, and worst. He just flat IMBIBES
all the garbage above, never mind the Bible contradicts, and assembles it into
his goofball Ecclesiastical
History, with a fabricated 'bishop list' RCC has
been crowing over, ever since. Yeah, history of jerks! Just read his biography on
Constantine. Then vomit. He
droolingly exaggerates
to sell his cockamamie notions. God just
doesn't mean anything, to him. People who can't READ the truth, admire
liars like Eusebius. All they hear are
the fancy words and pious tones, soft-shoe-buck-and-wing -- and they are
dazzled. No Spirit in them. By the millions, even until today.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian Hall of Shame, continued
o
Upshot: Full of their own self-importance,
'Church fathers' use Scripture as a dirty-laundry list, tsav l'tsav,
rarely any exegesis or Bible teaching for its own sake. Zero perception: to these folk, Bible is a
gun you fire at your opponent, expecting him to admire your spewing so much. Usurpers in God's Name, they stain the idea
of God, churlishly sell childish ritual, relics = DEAD BODY PARTS, gossip,
goofy miracle tales; merely thumping
Bible, never teaching it. Elitism. All today's
false teaching comes from these 'fathers'; to whom, effusiveness, virginity and
pious behavior was everything.
Pharisees. It's criminal,
that we heed them.
o
But
inside that apostate Church were monks in monasteries, quietly learning and going to the countrysides,
teaching. They don't seek political power. They seek solitude and teach Bible in small
groups, invisible. They copy Bibles, and then those Bibles
are distributed. Granted, they rarely
copy Greek text, compared to Latin translations; so Latin is all the West
knows. Greek texts in the East are also
sequestered with priest elites; so the
common man gets but Bible snippets and even more ritual, goofy miracle
tales. The Hebrew is shunned, as
anti-semitism is strong: oh, any
JEWISH text must be evil. So no Bible,
accurately learned. Unless you went
where Jews were hiding.
o
So
a spiritual Christian FLEES both sides or hides within.
Or, like Jerome, heads to the hinterlands, to get
that JEWISH text. And unlike Jerome, really learns it.
o
So now consider the 2nd epainon, from 320-334: EXODUS. To Protect
Bible. For that's what God means by 'to the end that we BECOME the
good report (aka
'praise', in English Bibles)
of His Glory.' We just saw, from the many writings by
'Church Fathers', that Church was anything but a 'good report'; not at all
praise for HIS Glory, but rather for its own.
So the epainon is sarcasm, with respect to them. It's realized positively in a different way,
parallel to the first time the epainon
was used.
o
Review: the 1st epainon, years 122-133, birthed an exodus when Jerusalem was razed. Note the epainon began beforehand, a
kind of Pregnancy Warning.
The discerning, would leave during this time. The warning? Politicizing Jewish apostasy, culminating in the fake-Messiah, Bar Kochba rebellion. They
had wanted Jesus to be a political Messiah, not a spiritual one; He refused, but later pretenders did not. Hadrian
was plagued by their riots during his reign;
so he razes Jerusalem, builds a PAGAN city with a PIG temple over the
Holy of Holies; then, barred Jews from
entering the city. Hint Hint.
o
This
2nd epainon is parallel: due to Christian apostasy, in 320+ there's another EXODUS warning, to Leave Rome! It peaks in 324 with the construction of 'New
Rome' – remember,
Revelation 17 came out in AD 96 -- parallel of a new apostate city built
on a razed one. Construction begins 490 years after Antiochus IV Epiphanes desecrated the 2nd Temple, then ruled there. Could God make a more biting
analogy? Could He more deftly express
His censure of Constantine?
o
Watch
this: in Greek, the epainon clause reads eis to einai hemas eis epainon doxzes autou.
So years 321-324 are covered by eis to einai.
Translated, 'In order to become' (literally, 'be'). Heh: the squabbling
'fathers' kept becoming an Imperial nuisance;
but not until 323, did Constantine and Licinius fight
again.
o
In
the 'nai' of 'einai' -- 324 -- Constantine had beaten Licinius, had sole control of the Empire, and
recovered enough to start building Constantinople. Grandiose
thing. Byzantium was razed, many Jews
moved in during that time. Bringing
Hebrew Bible, with them. So now
you didn't have to travel so far, to get it.
During this window, Jews weren't so persecuted. Again, people were tired of fighting. Well, not for long: by
388, Jews would again be persecuted.
So what happens? Rome's sidelined. When a polity
moves, many go along; others stay behind; or, move away. So it's an Exodus for everyone. At this point, it was clear how Church
factioned, who 'won'; divisions were vicious.
So you could slip quietly away and
thus study better, if God mattered to you.
Less need to 'explain'. Same
result with less violence, as obtained for the Bar Kochba period.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian, continued
o
So
now we go through the rest of the phrase: hemas eis epainon doxzes autou. This
period covers 325-334, beginning with Licinius' death, and ending with Constantinople's
dedication
in 330 or 334 -- see footnote in that Gibbon link; he seems to side with 330. [I can't find ANYONE who believes 334 is valid. Let me know if you do.]
o So if 330, then 'doxzes autou' is left out.
Biting, huh. The truncated phrase is 'eis to einai hemas eis epainon', to the end WE result in praise. Ouch. Not of HIS Glory, but our own. Yeah, that's what Constantine wanted.
Neropolis, Commodiana, Philipopolis, Cain naming the city he built
after his son. Get the point?
o
What
about 334?
[Enjoy a Clementine
phoenix chuckle, here
(left middle).] Constantine then negated Nicaea, revived
Arianism. Conflicting details: here,
here
and here. His attempt to unify Church abetted
religious war, for another 1000 years.
The world only stopped fighting, due to exhaustion. God's Message: don't meddle with God's stuff. God handles it; not Church, not Caesar. For God Alone generates spiritual growth; He doesn't
use human effort, Rom 4:2, 9:16, Eph2:8-9, Eph3:15-19.
o
God
had Paul give that message in advance: 3rd
of Temple Trio, proelpikotas. THE FEW. FIRST FRUITS FEW. 42 syllables
= years between prothesin at 301,
and the end of verse
12, here. 42 is a
Bible metaphor of generation building,
as you hopefully saw in Pregnancy2 Palindromes. Of course that's sarcasm, too: for what
generations do Church and Constantine build? Not good ones. Ergo, this 42-syllable anaphora parallel, links
back to Diocletian's edict.
Ergo, the
anaphorae are causal: eudokian = Autonomy; it births epainon = Bible Preservation, Learning (Heb 11:6); it births 'fruit' of Spiritual Growth like WORD =
CHRIST,
Eph 3:15-19, 4:12-13. Hence Temple Trio:
set before (like a meal for a guest, comes to mean
'public display') = proetheto
results in Temple
Shewbread = prothesin
results in FirstFruits = proelpikotas
Ironic
parallel, Diocletian and Constantine:
o
what
Diocletian
set before men to 'eat' = persecution, governmental tyranny.
o
Constantine's 'shewbread' = Diocletian's, renamed 'Christian', a holy fascism; his kids will murder each other and thousands
more, using it.
o
So
the new 'catholic church' is the first-fruits
harvest of
institutionalized evil. Revelation 17,
anyone? Right down to the clothing colors?
o Syllables matching 335 - 343, tous
proelpikotas en toi Christoi, are appositional
to hemas. Explaining the epainon.
And it's not the city, get it? But instead, the FirstFruits Few.
Technically, pro+elpikotas means 'the first-hoping',
literally, the first 'crop' who believes in Christ. The early crop. That's what Firstfruits was: you had handfulls
of an early crop to wave before God in the Temple. Something that matured FIRST. And it was small. Waved toward God to acknowledge Him as LORD
of the Harvest. For He does the Work. That He provides. Courtesy of Christ Our Firstfruits, 1Cor15:23. (See also Rom. 8:23; 11:16; 1 Co. 15:20; 16:15; Jas. 1:18;
Rev. 14:4.)
· As a result, the rest of the harvest
followed later, on Pentecost -- in the OT ritual, 50 days. The time always stood for the last 50 years
(before the Trib), for Harvesting
The Gentiles. Jubilee.
And now with Church, 'later' is
as long as it takes, John
17:14-26.
· We know that's the meaning, as we saw
the second of the Temple
Trio, prothesin, nested
just after the 2nd eudokian anaphora, well after the first epainon anaphora. It stood for Firstfruits, also: Temple Shewbread was baked from the first fruits. First of the Temple Trio was Christ Himself, proetheto'd.
Bread of Heaven, John 6:32. Bread
of Life, John 6:33, 35-58. As a result,
we are to become a copy of Him, 1Cor2:16, 1Pet2:21. That makes us, prothesin.
·
And
how much was that Shewbread offering? Small.
A few loaves. Presented. Waved.
Buying time for the rest of the harvest. At Pentecost.
Jubilee.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian
2nd eudokian God's Meaning 3rd eudokian 3rd
eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian, continued
· But what was 'Church' waving before God?
Waiver of learning and teaching Bible.
Wavering political games. Waiver
of tolerance, in the name of unity.
Waving in the pews, waving in rituals, waiving study in favor of gossip
and fake miracles, pilgrimages, relics = DEAD BODY PARTS, 'holy' songs and
unctuous tones, fooling the masses. In
short, Bread and Circus. Even, until now.
· So what Time did 'Church' buy? What
harvest? Time: DARK AGES. A firstfruits of bloodshed, a crop of
religious retards, spiritually blighted.
For 2000 years, even until now.
Paul will stop his meter at 120 syllables = years after Constantine
began institutionalizing 'church' in government: after all, that's what 'Apollo' said! (434-120=314, when Constantine first
started messing in Church politics). For the apostasy pattern is established by and
doesn't change, after Constantine.
Even until now. Look how people still slobber about that
awful time, drooling over the power,
baby. As if the golden age of apostasy, were a golden
age of Church?!
o
So
this thrice-nested anaphora runs from 308-343. Begins with
the 2nd eudokian anaphora (308, when Constantine is confirmed
at Carnuntum); to the 2nd epainon anaphora (320, when he consolidates his first
win over Licinius, then focuses on controlling fractious 'fathers'); to the end
of the proelpikotas phrase in 343, which ends
the Temple Trio anaphora:
kata ten boulen tou thelematos autou, eis to
einai hemas eis epainon doxzes autou, tous proelpikotas en toi Christoi.
o
Get this: In 337, Constantine dies. ON
Pentecost. Which FirstFruits, represents. But only tous proel, finished. No 'pikotas'. No 'en toi Christoi.' Ouch. So he dies not
completing Firstfruits. He didn't
mature. So he died a spiritual retard ON
Pentecost, when the Harvest is due: meaning, he could have matured by then. But did not.
Imagine being him, and knowing that was your 'OER' at death.*
o
D'ya
think God has Paul time these anaphorae,
to teach something important? Keep in mind,
Paul sits between two praetorian guards, dictating Ephesians off the top of his
head; or at least is under house arrest (he rented a flat in Rome, see end of the Book of Acts).
Message: don't end up like Constantine. But the 'catholics' drool over
this guy. So too, the Calvies and many
other Protties. Yikes. It's quite pathetic, to read the encomiums of
'Christian scholars', over the centuries.
They don't read Bible, either.
Obviously. How anyone can
regard Nicaea as an triumph instead of a nadir denouement, I'll never know.
1.
Constantine was not a good ruler in God's eyes,
since he united Church and State, creating the Revelation 17 harlot that Diocletian wanted;
Theodosius will formalize it in 379 and 395,
thus destroying the Roman Empire and its protect-the-Bible role since Augustus.
All that will be set in motion by 343,
when our Temple Trio proelpikotas, ends. So at that point, only the few will carry Time.
2.
But
God had Constantine do one thing of value:
for a little while, he authorized freedom of faith.
3.
Else
Constantine's 'legacy', his courting of Church support,
fostered sporadic religious wars until the 20th century -- since
now rival bishops had Imperial sanction hence political clout, to destroy each
other. Which his short-lived sons and
their unrelated successors, would carry on.
To our universal, shame.
4.
On
the other hand, UNTIL the rival factions got complete control under Theodosius, there was freedom to argue and move
around, as a Christian. Even under Theodosius and his sons, the rival regents were so busy fighting with each
other, the rival Christian factions didn't have as much power as they
wanted. In effect, the bishops adopted Diocletian's harsh policies, in order
to wipe out rivals, Jews and
pagans. So long as no one side
had enough control, there was an EXIT WINDOW so the FEW could run, hide, or
otherwise escape 'church'. And thus,
better learn Bible.
*Officer Evaluation Report
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I:
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History, 3rd eudokian, continued
5.
So notice THEIR 'firstfruits', 334-343: versus how GOD used their evil to
accomplish Autonomy to Study Bible. Constantine killed his own wife, son and other
close relatives; then, he himself dies
on Pentecost. For the next six months,
the sons murder all male relatives except Gallus and Julian.
By 340, Constantine II is dead; by 350, Constans. By 361,
Constantius II, under whom the Empire was briefly
united. None of them had male kids. In
fact, none of them had any kids, except Constantius II had a daughter, and she was barren. Neither Gallus (d. 354) nor Julian
(d. 362) had kids; each of them lasted but couple of years, once Emperor. So the entire line dies out.
6.
Meanwhile,
their mutual warring -- over Trinity! -- caused mass migration, as the persecuted fled to whatever
territory was friendly to 'their' sect.
Many left for Armenia (then Christian, under Tiridates), or other parts beyond Imperial
power. Within the Empire, factions
killed each other, died out. Same
aftermath as in 133-140 Bar Kochba
revolt. Yeah, graced-out, hes echaritwsen hemas.
That is, if you took the parallel epainon
warning from 320-334: when you see the abomination that causes
desolation, RUN! Autonomy resulted from Diaspora.
Bible thus spread more widely, than
prior. Harder to capture and burn
Scripture, when it's not so bunched up together. Sometimes, we have to be kicked out. To remote places of quieter contemplation,
and hungrier unbelievers.
7.
They
escape just in time, too. For now Rev 17 'Mother Church'
apostasy finally
wins via Constantine's sons; so, Mariolatry rises.
The two lies mesh, just as under the Severans. Finally made law under
Pulcheria, as we saw back in 431.
So Church's (s)mothering lies, institutionalize. Christ is sidelined.
o
Now we reach the 3rd epainon anaphora.
Ends, at 425-434. Finishes the tandem decline of Christianity and thus Rome.
Rhetorical style in Word and in Greco-Roman literature: end a tale
at a beginning, then leave the reader with a Moral. The cause of
a thing. Wed and Lived Happily Ever
After. Or, Died And All Is Lost. Thus Euripides ended his play Ion, re Origin
of the Greek Peoples; on which play, Paul bases Ephesians: Origin of
Church Completion. So Revelation
ends at the start of Eternity; then The Moral, Rev 22:6-21. Thus goes this final epainon.
How Church History Ends --
in apostasy, hence Rapture due to
it -- which ending, begins
eivj e;painon th/j do,xhj auvtou/ 434
Only the Holy Spirit, is voting. And only HIS vote, makes Church Complete.
That's the moral. So much for the vaunted 'we are the true
faith' Catholic and Protestant popedoms, the self-styled 'apostles' or anyone
claiming a 'vision' or 'special message' or 'appointment' from God. Still as bad today, as back in Constantine's time.
By their false doctrines you know them, Matt 7:15-23. Only the
Few Believers Carry Time, the maturing proelpikotas who ONLY the Spirit
makes. Maybe you.
Maybe me. Maybe one of our
neighbors. Definitely not, anyone who
vaunts the 'church fathers' or their ecumenical institutions birthed during the
second and third centuries post-Cross.
They are the losers -- still in heaven, if they ever once believed only
in Christ's payment, but no rewards, 1Cor3 --
and that is the Prophetical Warning Of Church Retardation, here in Ephesians 1:3-14.
Heck, you'd know that from the text alone, for Paul successively narrows rhetorical focus to proelpikotas, the climax of his rhetoric. Verses 13-14, explain it. Christ
was ONE FirstFruits. So the mature, are
FEW.
Rapture happens due
to maximum Church apostasy, as illustrated in Ephesians 1:13-14, updated in
Revelation 1-3; a retardation which in
the future, coincides with the date when Spirit completes Maturation
of Church, Eph 4:13. Which HE produced, via
growing people spiritually under whomever is their God-appointed pastor, Eph
4:16. Meanwhile, the babies still do
menial jobs, as they only WANT those jobs.
Spirit makes all that work, too.
So indeed even an apostate pastor is
used; a growing believer eventually
graduates from under him, to someone less apostate. Then, to someone not apostate. It's a full-spectrum process, and it takes a
lifetime. We each go through this
process. Some slowly, some quickly; but all start at zero; only the Holy
Spirit, completes us. Enfin,
we are babies, doing baby jobs; the few
who grow up, justify TIME for the many who don't: that 50 years+, for Church to Complete.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I, How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: Parallel Time Balance Summary
(Note: I'm still auditing the Time Balance Summary components. If you see other or better balances -- or you
see errors -- please tell me?)
So much for Church history. What about balancing to Adam, Millennium?
Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, Daniel 9 and Magnificat all balance. So Paul does, too. Eudokian anaphora:
1st 'pair' of eudokian
bookends are between (years) syllables 105 and 231 = 126, sum of 70+56, 18
sevens or 42 threes.
2nd 'pair', overlapping
between syllables 215 and 231, ending at
320, 15 sevens, 35 threes. 33 sevens: The Lord's Age when He died.
Centered on
the middle 'bookend' in verse 9. Double
Rejection of Father and Son. 77 threes. 70 x 7 x
3 Rejection fulfilled from first David to Last.
Historical
Parallel to same 231 syllables, as in Daniel 9:24-27. (See http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf)
God has
Paul metrically balance Israel's past parallels to Real future Time, to
plot Church denouement. Lesson: Man
Fails, God Succeeds. God's Good
Pleasure, to put us in His Son; all our failures won't stop Him achieving that
goal. Since God knows we
hallucinate doing His Work for Him, He offers a prophetic timeline -- just as in Psalm 90 -- to show our
recurring hallucination, brings harm.
Then He saves us anyway. Bad
news, good news, Isaiah 54:1.
Ideally we'd heed Him, in advance.
History
shows we don't. So our rejection path is
plotted, though always avoidable, just as it was for Israel; but 'our' prophetic timeline ends in a 434-year
loop. So you can never predict
Rapture. 434='62
weeks'. So we are in that Time Loop of
History. Ergo Paul caps Eph1:3-14's
meter, at 434.
56 before, 56 after, Church is in the middle. Like Noah, in the Ark. (The Noah sandwiched-56 connection, is
covered in the epainon
anaphora, two pages down.)
The eudokian anaphora traces Autonomy, as only God's
power creates it, one person at a time. Just
God, and just you; no group in goofy
hats with goofier notions on spirituality, setting rules. So here's the time
path of that goofy group; how God's Good Pleasure aka eudokia,
defeats it. Pivot = 215-231, the Severans; ends
with 'Crisis of Third Century'; when Ireneaus,
Tertullian, Origen and their ilk, birthed 'Mother
Church'
to crush Autonomy (which they call 'heresy'). Parallel: Temple Down prologue, 126 syllables of Isaiah 53:1-4; thus
God fragments birthed tyranny of 'Mother Church'. So Rev1:1-3, written when 'sonship'
lie of apostolic succession began,
meters to the first eudokian
anaphora ('126') . (Rev dateline is 91AD = 58 years after
Christ died, Rev1:1 meter; =26 years after Florus became procurator =Rev1:2
meter; sum =84 years after Judaea became a province: first time divisible by
7. =Psalm 90:1-4 meter sum 84 = God's
Full Decree WITH Millennium. Finally, Rev 1:3=42 syllables=Isaiah 52:13+14 and
53:12; sum 'tags' both 126's in Isa53,
and Paul's eudokian play on Isaiah, here.)
Eudokian factors: [(70+56)+(70+35)]:
God uses bad voting, to create Freedom.
He communicates this, by metrical parallel to similar times in Israel's
history.
o 105+70, takes you to Commodus; period
began with anti-semitic, self-promoting Christians like Ignatius and later Justin
Martyr,
becoming popular; between, 'bishops' apostatized into regional 'powers'; examples are so-called 'councils'
of 155 - 193 AD. Parallels Isaiah 53:3-4, which ends at 586 bc, Temple
Down due to bad voting.
o
175+56, invention of Mother
Church. Hence civil war and Diaspora; mated to Isaiah
53:5+6,
spans 586-530 bc when Cyrus died; civil war in Persia,
also ensued.
o
231+70 takes you to Diocletian's economic fiats, presaging
persecution. For Apostate Church, voted
badly. Mates to Isaiah
53:7+8,
530-460 bc: Temple was up by
516. Voting period ran 467-397 bc; then OT Canon ends, due to
apostasy. In 460 bc, low votes put Jerusalem at risk (see Nehemiah). So too, Apostate Church in 301 AD.
o
301+35 ends at Constantine's death. Mates to 425 bc = 'crush' in Isaiah
53:10. (Mid-voting period.) So, God crushed Constantine; for in 325 'Mom' voted to overrule BIBLE's date of Firstfruits aka Easter, changing times
and seasons, Dan7:25. So he BEGAN to die on April
3 = true passover per bible, when Christ Died. (See PassPlot.htm for details.) = Start of 337, in Jewish terms -- but
'Mom' rejected Jews, so couldn't even count to three. Per Apostate Church, he died on
Pentecost. So missed real Pentecost by a
week, as his fiat made their calendar 'god'.
So he dies proel, no pikotas, as he hoped in bishops. Constantine's
sons then
slay each other. No progeny survived.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: Parallel eudokian Time Balance Summary, continued
o
33 sevens
Theme: Israel's 'sons' Rejected
Christ; Church 'sons' reject Him, too. 'Church pleasure', is lust to kill Autonomy. God's
Good Pleasure, saves Autonomy. We
just saw how God operated in then-future, Church history. Okay, but how does He Reconcile All Time, via Church? For that's what Ephesians 1:10, claims.
o
So Reconciliation begins with the eudokian anaphora at 231 syllables, keyed to Daniel 9:24-27: Rebuild-and-Destroy Temple Trend runs Church
Age. Temple is based on David, 2 Sam 7's promise
of Temple & Sons. Problem is, Temple
Construction Was Delayed 3.5 years after David died. So Last David aka
Messiah dies, then the 50 years; then 3.5 years and Temple Down. That 53.5 reimburses for Abraham's too-early maturation; last 3.5 'repays' Delay In Construction. But Christ died 'a week early', so Trib
can't begin until Our Time is completed, Hebrews 11:39-40. For The Head Rose, but we are Body of
Christ. [Temple rebuilding: six months upfront on materials, 1Kings 5;
then 7 years building Temple: see 1Kings 6:1 in LXX, and 2Chron 3:2. Parallel to David ruling 7.5 years in Hebron
(1Chron 3:4). Bible uses 'last birthday'
convention, so David's birthmonth was likely between Bul and Ziv?]
o Paul uses at least two Time Balance formulas, in what follows. First he uses the raw meter total (here 231). Then he converts to 'bc' via - 56 or 57 (or 50+6 or 50+7), and any meter overlap (16, here). That yields at least three balancing results to past and future events. Those three, tie to other events. And so on. For you can plot the entire timeline from Adam via Paul's audit. So we know believers routinely audited Time. For Paul writes to an audience, proves scripture to them. And hence, to us.
For Paul's theme is How God in Christ Makes Church Converge All Time (verse 10). So he uses meter, to prove it: folks then accounted Time as years-from-event-x. Counting syllables is Jewish tradition (vital to their recitations), and key to Greek literature; so meter plays 'wristwatch', too.
Second formula, is total * 7. It reconciles, inter alia, from Millennial End at 5250 from Adam. Bible reconciles BACKWARDS from ENDPOINTS (i.e., years from next Jubilee). So Moses, Isaiah, Daniel and Paul reckon from End Of Time, as 'how long': God keeps His Promise. Paul also sets off old time (to 4200) as 'left side' in the equation, by - 56 or 57, - 98, 490, 560, or even -1050. Many events are tagged and balanced. This Time Balance subsection displays only some events, to show his methods.
o 231 depicts Daniel
9:26c Time Bubble as Trend and Bridge of Church History:
engus, euthus, always on verge of Tribulation = Max Apostasy. So Paul mated verses and
meter values to parallel future Church apostasy
to Israel's past (just as Magnificat had
done) as we saw on the previous page. For
Temple=Christ:
·
First formula, raw
total: 164 bc, 1st Chanukah or 167 bc
desecration =
Lord's Birth Day, Haggai 2, +66 = start Temple Year 231.
So Rapture/Trib
= 63 - 70 ad. Temple
Year accounting 'talks to' Dan 9:27's midpoint. Temple
Down = His
Age 33 + 33, not 40. Isa 53:4: Lord
Struck at age 33. Paul
marks 66, verse 4, at 7 syllables. 4103 -164 = Antiochus' desecration;
-161 = Chanukah, in Paul's bc/ad conversion;
so Paul ties to Antiochus at 66, Chanukah at 70. Note: refund due on Abraham's too-early maturation was 54. So Tribulation here, is unlikely.
Yet it can happen, since Rapture occurs due to Christian apostasy.
·
Second formula, total sevened: 231 * 7 = 1617 - 560 (new time grant, 490+70)
= 1057 from David's All-Israel
Crowning, start of year Paul writes. Also, 5250 - 1057 = 4193 (end), when Temple to go
down (mid-Trib). Then again, 4193 - 1057 = 3136, when David retired. Mirror=Time
Pivot. On which the future-prior, or
future-now, hangs.
· - 57 = 1000, Christ Born 1000th year of David's (united) Kingship. Paul stresses Time
Begins Anew with His Birth. 1560 = first three New Civilization Time Grant units.
· 1617 - 16 (eudokian overlap) - 560 = 1041 (start) = age 40 when Christ
should have died, had Israel voted yes, in Dan 9:19 & 26's '62 weeks':
living as long as David was king (counting from Hebron). Then
He was to die 1000th year of David's death
(but instead dies 7 years prior). Paul
will balance to that also, in the epainon anaphora.
· 1617 + 16 - 1050 = 583 bc when 1st Temple died, in Paul's
equivalent of 'bc'. + 56 more = Manasseh's age at and death year: 2Kings 21:11-15, reason for Temple Down.
·
David was born 1040 bc. = Isaiah 53's meter 'start'. Mirror. Audit balance.
So
eudokian meter
theme of 33 sevens, Christ
= Temple, hence Trib Start and Temple
Down 'tagged' To Each 'David'; but Church now occupies that 62nd 'week'.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I, How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: Parallel epainon Time Balance Summary
Next,
nested
epainon anaphora:
1st nest, syllables 334-133 = 67 threes +434-320, 38 threes = 105 threes or 45 sevens. 38 threes = God's Meter in Daniel 9:25+26. (Video here.)
2nd nest, overlaps at 320-334. So epainon centers, where eudokian ends. Its first 12 syllables (121-133) are omitted.
Now plot
thickens: 105 threes = Daniel 9:14-19 + elided 7; or 365 syllables, + elided 57. One Year.
The epainon thus balances to Noah's Year in the Ark, in each Daniel 9 and this epainon. All of verses 3-14 are based on that theme.
For Dan 9:14-19 runs 308 syllables = days Noah in Ark by his 601st birthday, per
LXX (see DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF).
Daniel 9:14-19's indictment
and petition: So God brought this
evil upon us, please restore Temple aka Bible for Your Holy Name's sake.
Ephesians tie: Bishop 'Kings' Fail as Israel Did. So God will 'flood' them. Ties to Psalm 90:5.
Epainon is Care For Bible. Its
pivot = 320-334, when anti-semitic Constantine &
'Church' unite. So God ends Rome, four generations later. Western Empire ends 476. Its end began when
Christians relegate Bible to 'priest elites', who then usurp it: an idolatry,
as Rev17 depicts. The epainon sums 315 = Noah's 308 days in Ark to his birthday, + 7 for Passover week. Trib quality. [Councils appeal to Caesar, not God: Arles,
314, negates Bible's Easter Date; in 315, Neo-Caesarea,
silly despotic laws about marriage and ordination.]
For
Church disdained God's epainon, instead
seeking Caesar's and its own; so God will flood
out apostate church, give Bible
Care to others. So Paul traces Decline of Care For
Bible by mating epainon meter to Daniel 9:14-19,
which parallels Flood; then, Paul mates
the Flood 'calendar' severally. First 70+40+91 epainon bloc, also mates to Noah's
time in Ark after rain ends, but before he sent raven. (Per LXX, not BHS.) The 2nd epainon bloc, 57+57, also piggybacks to Daniel 9:25+26's meter, which itself
mated to Noah's entry/exit. The epainon factors: [(70+40+91)+(57+57)].
o 133+70=203, Gen 7:24-8:5. Flood Bathtub: the prior 40 days (=years) were rain, preceded by 57 as warning. Ties to (end) 93 and 36 AD (pre-Church schedule for Temple Down, if Christ had
died on time).
So it's bath-time: Severans. Mommies bathe brats;
Church 'baptised' by mommifying,
politicizing, prelates. If you argue over Easter's date, baptism
and God's Nature, you can't read Bible.
Hall of Shame. Guess John 19, 1 Peter 3:18-22, Heb1:1-3,
Philippians 2:5-10, 2Cor13:14 weren't in their Bibles.
o 203+40, Gen 8:4, Ark (Ar)rests In Bathtub. Crisis of 3rd Century. Bishops persecute
each other
over Rev 17 purple.. er, scarlet. Roman
prelates, profit
from it.
o
243+91, Gen 8:5, Mountaintops Visible. Exit Window Opens 334, when Constantine revokes Nicaea; so causes brawling bishops. His sons die fighting for one side or
another. Constantius II dies last, no fertile
issue. End Constantines. Weird, petty
laws re Church, multiply (under Valentinian and sons). Laws.
Not Bibles.
o 334+57+57=448, Gen 8:14, Exodus from
Ark. End Of Western Empire, Odovacer. Newly age 15, Roman age of
manhood. A demon-influenced saint, promised him
power. Others were busy killing Jews
and free speech in the new (IV,2) Theodosian
Code; it tyrannized everyone (see also 425-434
section). Very popular.
57+57 denote Judgment and Deliverance. 57 days before Noah enters
Ark; 57 days he waits post-birthday to leave = Pentecost and 9th
Av, respectively. Same paired 57's as God's Reply in
Dan9:25+26. Delivered by Odovacer, frees up the West. His empire dies at end Temple
Trio meter, 56+56=112 years later, in 560AD, when the first 'AD' (from Lord's Birth) 490 plus its voting period,
ends. Justinian Code
born then (read 'Novella 146'). Justinian
allegedly builds atop Temple, in 560. [Bk 5 #7 p.157 of Procopius
(here, in English) says Nablus.]
Mohammed, born 560 or 570, allegedly
'ascends' from it. Both leaders loved hurting Jews. So, both died without issue.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: Parallel epainon 45 sevens Time Balance Summary, continued
a.
Epainon 45 sevens meter = 315. Balance to old Mill schedule, shows Christ's
earlier death Changes Schedule,
as Church is under construction.
As epainon meter invokes Noah and Daniel
9, their
times are parallel. Paul maps contingencies. Text and meter, show why. Meter conveys vital doctrine to certify
Word 'coordinates'.
b.
315 - 57
= 258 = 164 + 94. Temple
Down is depicted for its Year 258 after
(initial) Chanukah; equals Rapture/Trib for 90-97 AD. Equals Trib mid-point,
under old Schedule. Original
Harvest-Gentiles sum, based on when the Lord should
have died, plus 50 years. Notice Paul added 57
years, post-4200; means Rapture won't likely happen on old schedule. For Eph1:5's
'sonship' text begins at 94. The eudokian doesn't begin until 105= start 4207. Meaning? If Rapture won't happen by 90, it ain't gonna for at least 28 more years. Total overage from verse 4c
is another 56. Why? Too Few Sons Built. So Paul emphasizes that imbalance, to
stress Church being late to
mature.
c.
Or, -
54-year hiatus 'twixt Dan 9:26, and mid-27; thus 94 becomes 97, when Millennium was to begin. To 'repay time owed Gentiles', as Abraham matured 54
years early. Ergo, Trib
is split into 3.5 year segments. In the eudokian, we saw this last segment 'repays' Delay
In Temple Construction. Rev 11-12, tie: note its sarcasm
re building the Temple, in Rev 11. Temple then standing was not authorized by God, so He treats it
as still down. Wrong Time.
Wrong Builder. Wrong herald. (So John only writes, never 'measures' for a FOUNDATION; thus we know
whatever's built, is deemed NOT TO EXIST. So God is sarcastic. The two
SACKLOTHED 'Witnesses', add sarcasm.) ABomination,
just as Dome of the Rock, now. [John writes in 91 AD due to
Church apostasy: the OT Rapture/Trib
'deadline', won't be met. Trib midpoint should have been 94. So John writes in
91, to remind them of these Pauline 'schedules'.]
d.
Hence 94
= Lord's Age is benchmarked, verse 5's meter: Pleasure,
Praise, Progeny, Isaiah53:10-11.
Eph 1:5, Sonship. Sons for Abraham, from Sons of The Christ. So 40 + 57 = 97 -3.5 = 94. Paul focuses
on Temple Down, as that's a timed
event. Count 3.5 backwards, to get the
start. Still can't predict Rapture. Can
explain its timing.
e.
4103 - 164 = Antiochus'
desecration; -161 = Chanukah, in Paul's bc/ad conversion; so Paul
ties to Antiochus, not Chanukah. (Add 3, to get conventional bc.)
f.
So how does all that meter, also balance the
past? Watch: 315 * 7 = 2205 - 57 = 2148 from what? Abraham supermatured mid-year 2046, when Noah's 490-year time grant ran
out. Properly, 4103 -2148 = 1946, when Abraham was born (start). Also, 2046 + 2148 = 4194, start of old Scheduled Trib (=4193 end year). Equals our 91AD. (The Lord was born last quarter of Jewish
year, and end of Roman year. So 90=91, etc.
Bible is very precise. Many times
the calculation is at the beginning of the year, sums one more than expected.)
· More Tribulation scenarios, balance to Abraham and Noah. Paul reconciles to everyone else, through
them. Note how the 54 years owed on Abraham
aren't fully paid, unless Temple goes down in 87 or later. So if the Temple goes down sooner, it's
not likely to trigger the Rapture.
These scenarios aren't predicated on a Temple calendar reference, so can
be midpoints or beginnings. To balance
any of these to Noah, add 490 to 2205, subtract from 2046.
· -7, yields a Tribulation
period of 84 - 90, which Paul benchmarked in
verse 4.
· Or, -14, yields 77 - 84, which Paul also
benchmarked with its own seven.
· Or, -7 -14 = 21, yields
70 - 77. Paul
benchmarked only the 77.
g.
Another meter tie to Noah, who was 308 days in Ark from
entry to 601st birthday.
Dan9:14-19's meter thus = 308, to invoke legal precedence
for his petition, based on Noah's Bathtub
Time in Ark. Implicit/elided, is 50 years to Harvest Gentiles = Jubilee. For Abraham supermatured to 'catch' the 490-year baton from Noah, a Gentile. So Paul Apostle TO
Gentiles, adds 7 to = 315 in the epainon meter, creating
an updated balance to Daniel: Time
is now post-Cross, still inside an unfinished, 62nd week. Noah's
still in das Boot. So Paul now concurrently
balances to Noah, Abraham and Daniel, to show
result of Christ dying early, and Church under construction:
· 308 + 56 = 364. Next, 364 * 7 = 2548 + 2046 = 4104 (late 4103), Christ is born a 'year' after Abraham supermatured. Hence four
91's in Paul's meter, plus 56+14.
· 308 * 8 = 352 * 7. 352 + 12 = 364. Paul left 12 syllables out of the epainon (which
began at syllable 121), instead starting it at syllable 133.
Now you see why.
· 315 * 8 = 360 * 7. 360, Noah sent dove the last time. =
Exodus 12, Lamb Set Aside. 365, is his birthday. On what becomes, Passover. = 364.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: Parallel epainon 45 sevens Time Balance Summary, continued
h.
70 - 77 Trib scenario,
balanced to Temple
Down and Noah's birthday aka the Flood. 315 * 7 + 315 years
after Flood start (1655 from
Adam), Temple dies
start of 73 AD, if Church matures. Flood of troops, Dan9:26c: meter, 57 syllables. The second 57, Noah exits. 57+57 =
Passover to 9th Av. Daniel 9:27, Temple goes down mid-week. These are not begin-Trib metaphors. The Noahic metaphor is AFTER the 40 days'
rain (analogous to David's death preceding). Cute: since at 73, the Temple
would have been up 40 years from the Lord's actual death. The 315 also ties as a syllable marker to Isa53:3-10 (Purim, 315th syllable,
Isa53:8; Purim is 308 years before Antiochus), Ps90:1-4 (Millennium, syllable 315 ends Ps90:16, very
pregnant). Both of those passages denote middles, not
beginnings. So 73 can only be a Trib mid-point to the previously-balanced to Abraham, 70-77 period. So 73 cleverly coincided with hagious in verse 4: HOLY Temple (us, in the verse).. DOWN.
· 73 = Temple Year 231 + 7
= 17 years after Paul writes. [It's really start of 17th year; Paul writes 16 years after the Lord should
have died. So Paul mirrors the year he
writes, to Temple Down. Isaiah 53 first used this technique, dating
Isaiah 53:1, at 126 years before Temple would go down; 126 syllables=years later, it's 126 years
short of its own 490. Jews kept calendars of Years from Exodus, David, Temple,
other events. So people Paul wrote, knew these numbers. Google on 'Kaluach 3',
for a modern version. It's wrong, but
still shows the years-from idea.]
· Balance to this Trib
mid-point. 315
o - 57 (Here Paul uses the -57 currently, as new time belonging to Church which
'belonged' to the Gentiles anyway, no
longer 50, but the last 57 years of the 1050 ending in 4200.)
o - 7 (which Paul added to Daniel's
308; due to Him dying seven years earlier than scheduled.)
o - 14 (2nd epainon overlap) = 237 (end year).
· 73 = 40 years
after Christ actually died, so Israel's late entry into the Land can be
'repaid' by Temple still standing in it, during Church. Paul embedded the 14; if seven of the 14 are
'paid' taking the Temple down (as actually happens), then the same 7 years
repays Jews and Gentiles. Just as those 14 years in Diaspora paid both.
· Notice how this careful
balancing, i.e., for time owed the Land (whaaa???) and for Abraham's
too-early maturity -- tells you Rapture can occur at the WRONG time. So then Satan would win, since God didn't
keep his promise to Israel. Paul
balances to OT promises, here. They are
still relevant.
· A Year 70 Trib beginning = 1077th year of David's Hebron
Kingship, if Church matures. Year 77 = 1077th year of David's United Kingship = 1000th year of his death. Paul benchmarks the 77, at the end of verse 4.
· Thus Paul
has balanced five sets of (rounded) Tribulation scenarios to Noah, Abraham, David, Temple, Daniel and the Lord Jesus
Christ:
o Old 90..94..97 schedule. The 94 was used to
benchmark, verse 5.
o New 63..66..70 schedule, benchmarked in verse 4's middle. In the eudokian anaphora.
o or a 70..73..77 schedule. Not explicitly
benchmarked.
o Next, a 77..80..84 schedule, specially set off as a 7, end verse 4.
o an 84..87..90 schedule. This one kicked off
verse 5.
o Finally, notice that without
this balancing, you'll mistake Rapture's 'place' as mid-Trib or end-Trib. So
the meter is especially helpful, here.
Church has no part in Jewish Time.
It was birthed after the Cross, due to Israel's
Late Construction, theme of Romans 11.
For that reason, no one can
predict it. That's another point
Paul stresses, by running scenarios. He runs them to illustrate the underlying why of Rapture, not to make date-setters
drool!
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Chronology Chart, continued Go to: Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I, How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History:
eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary
Note: this is a very complex section. If your eyes glaze over, skip to page 134-135
to see the result, and watch the videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1bv_xPIih3fJ_mckYoeN2TCpVlaMztdg&feature=view_all
o
Sum eudokian (lit., 'good opinion') plus epainon (lit., 'good report') anaphora = Ark analogy, 78 sevens = 546 =
[(70+56) + (70+35)] + [(70+40+91) + (57+57)] = 56+365+70 + 56.
eudokian versus epainon overlap balances to 434 - 105 = 329 (329th
syllable in Isaiah 53 = 460 BC). Idea that Temple 490 continues, in Church.
Eudokian: 1st 'pair' runs between (years) syllables 105 and 231 = 126, sum of 70+56, 18 sevens or 42 threes.
2nd 'pair', starts syllable 215 (overlaps until 231); ends at 320 = 15 sevens, 35 threes. 33 sevens: Lord's Age at Death.
Epainon: 1st nest runs between syllables 133 - 334 = 67 threes.
2nd nest runs syllables 320 - 434 = 38 threes.
Summed epainon = 105 threes or 45 sevens. The 38 threes
=
God's Meter in Daniel 9:25+26.
2nd nest, overlaps at 320-334. So epainon centers, where eudokian ends. Its first 12 syllables (121-133) are omitted.
So the 78 sevens total = 546 - 112 (= Temple Trio meter, wholly embedded) = 434.
The individual overlaps are 16 in eudokian, gross of 14 in epainon; for eudokian counted the first epainon 12 (from 121-133);
between them, is an overlap from 133 to 320 = 187. Finally, the first 105 syllables are omitted from both.
So overlap adjustments
sum: -112 -16 -14 -187 = 329.
o 33 sevens eudokian theme: Christ = Temple.
Values balanced to 63-70 AD Trib scenario, then to David's Kingship 1000
and the Lord at birth, death, year Paul wrote.
o
45 sevens epainon theme: Ark=Flood=Pregnancy. Values balanced to 4 other Trib
scenarios, to Abraham, Noah, and David's
1077th year = Lord's 70th OR 77th Year.
o
78 sevens combined theme: 1078th year of David = Isaiah
53's meter base. Starts The Lord's 78th human year = His 77th Birthday; Paul marks it in verse 4.
[Isaiah summed
his syllables on a base of 154 x 7 = 1078 - 462 actual syllables - 364 elision
between Isaiah 53:10 and 11 for Temple longevity being regranted presaging
Daniel 9, and 252 elided between David's death accounting end Isa 52:15, and
the 712BC forward account start in Isaiah 53:1.
Daniel used that to key off his kings chronology in Daniel 9:6 through
end verse 14, dating from David's Hebron Kingship.]
o
Balances to 8th 490 since
Adam's Fall, also
parallels Noah's exit. 78 sevens = 56 + 365
+ 70 + 56, Ark = Cross = Church Pregnancy, Rom8:11ff until Eternity Is Born. So Paul balances to Adam, as Christ
is Last Adam:
56 = Dan9:27's end, if Israel voted Yes. But she didn't. So that 56 = forfeited Time. So now, there is
new Time, since Christ won on the Cross, so 'bought' a new 490. 434 years to go = Paul's
meter. Paul thus parallels Church TEMPLE
role of Buying Time: 546 = 56 + 490. Setup for
Eph 2.
o
So do parsed values, interweave these themes? Let's see. 546 - 98, the Lord's Age very end Year 4200
from Adam (starts
His 98th year aka Millennium) = 448. Equates to 'bc'. Add the
missing 12 in first epainon = start of 460 bc = end 1st Temple's 490 Time Grant at syllable =
year of Isaiah 53:8's end. [Isaiah balanced to Temple's
490.]
o
Next, -14 of 2nd epainon. 460 - 14 = start of 446 = year 2nd 70 Time Grant in Daniel 9 ends, kicking off the 69 weeks = Isaiah
53:9b. Or 460 + 14 = Purim.
o
546 + 57 -14 (2nd epainon overlap) +12 (1st epainon elision) = 601, Noah's birthday at exit Flood. Or, start of his 601st year at his 600th
birthday.
o So get this: 601 x 7 = 4207, seven years beyond the old Millennium. Hanging chad. Or, play on David's Hebron kingship.
o
546 + 57 = 603 - 16 (eudokian overlap) = 586, Year Temple Down (in August, so = 587 end
year). reason
for hanging chad = end Isaiah 53:4.
o
Next, 586 - 57. Year Cyrus died, end 530 start 529 bc = Isaiah 53:6 end. Hence Temple Reconstruction
Delayed,
civil war in Persia (i.e., pseudo-Smerdis). Paul paralleled it in Church
history with the Severans (syllables = years 231 et
seq.), when Mother
Church was
newly minted by Irenaeus and his fellow apostates who used it to war against
Christians. They all called tyranny,
'unity'; so secular rulers also warred. Christian
history, determines secular history.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon
78 sevens Time Balance Summary, continued
o
Next, 546 - 528 = 18 (16+14-12) overlap in eudokian plus epainon anaphora. Year 4200, when Millennium was to
begin = year 98 (at start): OT Canon was 528 years finished. Daniel 9's 'seven weeks' closes OT Canon, 397 bc = Malachi: Year 3673 from Adam. God's Good
Pleasure Completes Word so His Praise can be in our hearts, Matt 4:4. Also, 546 * 7 -112 -16 -14 -7 (Paul added 7 to epainon to update Daniel's 308 to 315) = 3673. Which was, 1007 years after the Exodus. Seven years late.
o Millennium
End = 5250 from Adam,
750 sevens; Dan9:19 ends in only 742 sevens: 56 was elided. Meaning, Time in Abeyance. God answers in Daniel's
meter: 63 syllables, Dan 9:24; 57 in each Dan 9:25-26; 54 syllables in Dan 9:27. (Video here, pdf here.) Paul pairs the 56=57 meter three times, once per
anaphora. So Paul datelines Ephesians
1:4 at 56. So when Rapture didn't occur
by 70 or 91, most rejected its promise. [Prior examples in Acts 1,
1Thess4:13-17 and 2Thess2, Philippians 3:8-14, Hebrews 2 and 10, 1John
2:26-3:2, 2Peter3.]
Noah Key: 546 * 7
= 3822 -112
-16 -14 -187 = 3493. But 78*7 = 546 * 7 = 3822 -112 -16 (overlaps in the
anaphora, omitting the pregnant 14) = 3694.
5250 -
3694 = 1556, when
Noah got his covenant at age 500, evidenced by the triplets, Gen 6:10-13.
Abraham-to-Hebron
Key: 5250
- 1077 = 4173 - 1077 = 3096. Mirror to Millennium End. Based on 1077 end = 1078
beginning. Equidistance.
For
78*7 -
56
= 490,
*7
=
3430 – 112 – 16 –
14 – 12 -187+7 = 3096. Mirror, Mirror on the wall: whose 'Messiah', saved us all?
First Chanukah, this time (same as Mary's balancing
base). 4173 - 3942 (Chanukah) = 231, again.
o David's Hebron Kingship dates 3096 from Adam, and 1050 from Abraham's
maturation. David was then age 30, in 430th
year post-Exodus. United Kingship, 3103, he was age 37. He dies at age 77. 1 Kings 6:1 shows Temple Built
Late, started 3.5 years after David died.
o
Lord Born King 1000 years later, so from Hebron
Kingship born the 1007th year. So David would have been age 1037. 40 years later, David would be
age
1077, and the Lord would be age 40, in the 1040/1047th Kingship year of David. The
Lord was to die this 1077th year = the 1000th year of David's death, ending Daniel 9:26's 62nd week. The Lord died instead, 7 years prior. Ergo, another seven-year hanging chad, since He died in the
61st 'week', instead.
o
So this Equidistance Play of Two 1077's (see table here), is also dual:
there are two persons who
will have two 1077 anniversaries,
and of two types: age, and
kingship. The idea is to make it excruciatingly obvious that
Jesus the Christ is the Messiah. Only God can
orchestrate time, and especially in wry multiple parallels with real history
you can test. Which matters a lot,
since math numbs the mind. So with six parallels to '1077', maybe you'll notice at least ONE of them? [587+490, Daniel 9 error by Eusebius. From NT you can prove Rapture was expected in
70AD. So 1077AD End of Time, versus
1077BC start of David? Didn't work. So I finally had to plot GeneYrs.xls. Which later led to
this meter thingy, now.]
o
So: when David is 77 years old, it's his 47th kingship
anniversary. Then he dies. Paul plays on it, end verse 3, 1047 = Lord at 47, Who died 14 years prior. In 1033rd year of David's United Kingship, not Hebron. The intervening seven years were civil war in Israel, 2Sam5. So Paul wryly stresses the hanging chad, via
the 7 years between kingships. So the Lord died 1040th year of Hebron
Kingship, so was cut 7, too; and civil war in
Israel, followed. Over what? Faith
in Christ! That civil war continues.
So Paul stresses parallelism and causality via meter, to show how God
Orchestrates Time.
o The Lord is age 77 in 1084th year of David's Hebron Kingship, 1077th year of United Kingship. That
year, is 4180. 14 years later, is the originally-scheduled
Tribulation Start: 1091st year of David's United Kingship (start of year). The Lord would be newly 90. Start of David's 1098th year of Hebron Kingship.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, continued
o
David born 400 years post-Exodus, 830 years after Jacob entered Egypt (Exo 12:40-41), age 130 (Gen 47:9) = Abraham's 1120th year (Gen 21:5 +
Gen 25:26). Flood began 1410 years prior,
2010 years
after Noah's birth. Solomon began Temple 480 years after Exodus;
David's 80th year, 50th Hebron and 43rd Jerusalem Kingship year.
o Lord is born 1007-50 = 1000-43 years later = 1437th year from Exodus. He dies age
33 = 1470th Exodus year = 490 x 3 = David's age 1070 = 1040th Hebron Kingship year = 1033rd united (Jerusalem) Kingship
year. The Lord should have died 7 years later = 1477th Exodus year = David's age 1077 = Isaiah 53's meter (= 1078, start = end 1077) = 1047th Hebron Kingship year = 1040th United Kingship year = Daniel's
meter and the 69 weeks. Scholars
misaccount those weeks as lunar, so miss the extra 7.
o Now we tie again to The Flood. Moses metrically dated Psalm 90 at start of 1051st year of Flood, 40 years post-Exodus. So the Lord died Flood year 2480, was born Flood year 2447. Millennium should have begun Flood year 2544, His Age 97 = 1534 years post-Exodus = start 1098th/1105th Davidic Kingship year, David's age 1135.
o Yellow
diagonal below
= 4136: Lord died 33 years post-Birth; that was 583 years post-1st Temple
death; that
was 364 years after its birth; that was 13 years after David died; that was 40 years after he was King over Israel; that was 7 years after his crowning
at Hebron; that was 30 years after his birth; that was 400 years post-Exodus; that was 620 years after Abraham matured; that was 390 years post-Flood; that began 600 years after Noah's birth; that was 1056 years after Adam Fell.
o So we know Paul's '56' is three years
later by
our standards, as we misread 1Kings 6:1.
There is a 3-year hiatus between David's death and Temple building, so
the Lord had to be born three years earlier, to meet David's 1000-year
deadlines. But scholars used
Josephus, not Bible, so errantly added age 70 to the 3-year hiatus, and
hence claim Exodus, Temple Down, etc.
are 3 years earlier than they were. This error was masked by an
offsetting error, when we switched to bc/ad. So we claim the Lord was born 3 years
earlier than He was. Hence the 3-6 year variance in
our 'corrections'. So our '59' is really
His Age 56. End of Year, meaning the
beginning of Year 57.
o 78 sevens' double-1077 tallies to
Abraham and Noah, as did the 45 sevens. Here, formula = 3822-546-180 not 187. Paul
added 7 to Daniel's 308; so Paul now omits 7.
The 546 alone is future time, so is debited. 180 is net overlap (David was 30 when King, so
that 'embedding' is not debited). Paul starts with Flood year 1655, adds 1050, ties
back to Moses' date for Psalm 90. Flood started a new civilization, so
requires a 1050 tally. Paul next adds 1050, now ties to Daniel 9's
timetable. Takes us to 3756 = Alexander
the Great's birth, 46 years into post-OT Canon historical 490, see GeneYrs.xls. Then Paul adds 54 = 3810 = circa 296 bc,
Third Samnite War, Rome
thus masters Italy over next 12 years (= omitted 1st epainon meter) = 284 bc
at Dan 9:19 (see
its Chrono
Chart for that verse), as God gave him back in Daniel 7-8 = Rome
rises. (Or see
here or here.)
o So notice: 1050 + 1050 + 54 = 1077 x 2. Bible Time Mirrors prove audit success. Equidistance from Flood to Rome
Rising, add
another 1077 x 2 = Millennium.
Paul writes here about future Roman and hence Church history, so
this past tie for his Greco-Roman audience, would matter. He's thus reconciled from Noah to Flood to Abraham to
Moses to Daniel to Greece and to Rome -- so all those prophecies,
with David sandwiched in between -- are accounted.
Okay, but what about the Davidic accounting? So now the overlap between 3096 when David becomes king +1077+1077 to Millennium, and the accounting overlap
from 3096 to 3822,
tie to Daniel.
Difference? 726. Minus the 329 overlap in the meter? 397. You can't call this, 'coincidence'. God balances Time as a
financial transaction. Time allowed must BUY
something. So here Paul shows it buys
the Millennium. Through, Church. Planned, since before Adam. Just as the Bible text says plainly, so too
the meter.
o So the originally-scheduled
Millennium was to start 1105th year of Hebron Kingship, 1098th year of United Kingship: the Lord would be newly 97 years old, starting His 21st year after age 77, 28th year after age 70. His age 70: year 4173 from Adam, 1070 from United Kingship, 1077 from Hebron Kingship. 14 years after Paul writes.
Meter Notes Paul's
Chronology Chart, continued Go
to: Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1
2 14 Title Page
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix
I, How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon
78 sevens Time Balance Summary, continued
Year 1077's
o Year 1050 from
Noah's birth in 1056 From Adam's Fall (FAF) = birth of
Jacob = 2106 FAF. Exodus
Year: (560). Flood
Year: 450.
o Year 2000 from Noah's
birth, Israel rejects God as King = 3056 FAF. Israel in slavery 390 yrs, Acts
13:20ff. Exodus
Year: 390. Flood Year: 1400.
o Year 1050 from Abraham's supermaturation 2046 FAF (Isaac born) = 3096 FAF, David King at Hebron. Exodus
Year: 430. Flood Year: 1440. See also Exo 12:40-41 'mirror'.
o Year 1050 from Jacob's birth 2106 FAF = 1st Temple Dedicated = 3156
FAF. Temple Year: 1. Exodus
Year: 490. Flood Year: 1500. Moses' 490 also ends in 3156.
o Temple Dies Year 3520
FAF, 126 years short of
its own 490-year allotment. Temple Year: 364, (70). Exodus
Year: 854. Flood Year: 1864.
o 2nd Temple Construction Start, 3570 FAF. Foundation finished 24/25
Chislev. Temple Year: 414, (20). Exodus
Year: 904. Flood Year: 1914.
o 2nd Temple Construction Completed, 3590 FAF.
Moses age 1004. Temple Year: 434, 1. Exodus
Year: 924. Flood Year: 1934.
o 1st Chanukah, 3942 FAF. Foundation Anniv; Antiochus IV
desecration 3 yrs prior. Temple Year: 786, 352. Exodus
Year: 1276. Flood Year: 2286.
o Year 1000 from
David's Hebron Kingship is 4096 FAF. Temple Year:
940, 506. Exodus
Year: 1430. Flood Year: 2440.
o Year 1000 from
David's United Kingship is 4103 FAF, Lord Born. Temple Year:
947, 513. Exodus
Year: 1437. Flood Year: 2447. = 'our' 4BC, EARLIER deadline.
o Year 1050 after Israel rejects God as King
= 4106 FAF, 2000
yrs after Jacob born. Temple Year: 950, 516. Exodus
Year: 1440. Flood Year: 2450. = 'our' 1AD, when Christ
should have been born, LATEST deadline. Moses meters Psalm 90 between
1050th anniv. of Flood, and 1050st year before
Messiah born: when Israel will reject God as King.
o Year 1070 from David's birth =
1040 Hebron, 1033 United Kingship = 4136 FAF.
Temple Year: 980, 536. Exodus
Year: 1470. Flood Year: 2480.
o
Lord's death, age 33 = 4136 FAF, exactly
on Anniv. of 1st Passover. Temple Year: 980. Exodus
Year: 1470. Flood Year: 2480.
o Year 1077 from David's birth, 1000
from his death = 4143 FAF. Temple
Year: 987, 543. Exodus
Year: 1477. Flood
Year: 2487. = Daniel 9:26, 57 years
to Millennium.
o Lord's age at death should have been 40, 4143 FAF.
Temple
Year: 987. Exodus
Year: 1477. Flood Year: 2487. = 17 years before Paul
writes.
o Year 1050 from
David's Hebron Kingship is 4146 FAF. Temple Foundation Year: 1000. Exodus
Year: 1480. Flood Year: 2490. = repayment owed Gentiles.
o Lord age 43, 4146 FAF. 54
years to Millennium (2100-2046, Abraham). Temple Year: 990,
546. Exodus
Year: 1480. Flood Year: 2490. = 14 years before Paul writes.
o Lord age 50, 1050 from United, 1057 from Hebron Kingship = 4153 FAF. Temple
Year: 997, 553. Exodus
Year: 1487. Flood Year: 2497.
o Lord age 53, Year 1053 from United, 1060 from Hebron Kingship, 4156 FAF. Temple Year: 1000,
556. Exodus
Year: 1490. Flood Year: 2500.
o
Paul writes near Lord's 56th birthday = 57th year,
end 4159 FAF. Temple
Year: 1003, 559. Exodus
Year: 1493. Flood Year: 2503. = 40 years
before Mill starts.
o Lord
age 70, 2nd
Temple DIES. Year 1070 United, 1077 Hebron = 4173 FAF. Temple Year: 1017, 573. Exodus
Year: 1507. Flood
Year: 2517. = 14 years
after Paul writes.
o Lord age 73 and David 1110 = 4176 FAF, 2000 years after Joseph's
enslaved. Temple Year: 1020, 576. Exodus
Year: 1510. Flood Year: 2520. = 17 years after Paul writes.
o Lord
age 77 = Year 1077 from David's United Kingship =
4180 FAF. Temple Year: 1024,
580. Exodus
Year: 1514. Flood
Year: 2524. = 21 years
after Paul writes.
o Lord age 90, Year 1050
from David's death = 4193 FAF. Temple
Year: 1037, 593. Exodus
Year: 1527. Flood Year: 2537. = Trib Start, pre-Church.
o Lord age 93 = end 4197 FAF = 2154 from
Abraham, Dan 9:27.Temple (Foundation) Year: 1040 (1050). Exodus
Year: 1530. Flood Year: 2540. Temple was to die, mid-4197.
o
Lord's age 97, Year 1057
from David's death is 4200 FAF. Temple Year: 1044, 600. Exodus
Year: 1534. Flood Year: 2544. = 40 years after
Paul writes.
o
Millennium to start end year 4200 FAF.
Temple Foundation Year: 1054. Exodus
Year: 1534. Flood Year: 2544. = 40 years after
Paul writes.
o Paul adds 7 to get 4207 FAF = 2100 from Jacob's birth, 3150 from Noah's. Temple Year: 1050 (end). Exodus Year: 1540
(end). Flood Year: 2550 (end).
o Year 1167 from David's birth and Lord's Age 130, 4233 FAF. Temple Year: 1077, 643. Exodus Year: 1567. Flood Year: 2577.
o Millennium ends Year 5250 FAF. Temple
Year: 2094,1660. Exodus
Year: 2584. Flood
Year: 3594.
o Maybe Paul adds 7 to
get 5257 FAF. Temple
Year: 2100. (end) Exodus Year: 2590. (end) Flood Year: 3600. (end)
Meter Notes Paul's
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, continued
Bible Time Distance Table (Old, simpler version here.)
|
Adam |
Noah |
Flood |
Abraham age 100 |
Exodus |
David Birth |
David King Heb. |
David King Jeru |
David Death |
Temple Dedicated |
Temple Dies |
Chanukah |
Christ Birth |
Christ Death |
Jubilee + Trib |
Millen nium |
Comments |
Adam |
0 |
1056 |
1655-56 |
2046 |
2666 |
3066 |
3096 |
3103 |
3143 |
3156 |
3520 |
3942 |
4103 |
4136 |
4144 |
4200 |
Year 1=Year 0 until mid-year. So
you must often add or subtract 1, from time differences. |
Noah |
1056 |
0 |
600 -1 |
990 |
1610-1 |
2010 |
2040 |
2047 |
2087 |
2100 |
2464 |
2886 |
3047 |
3080 |
3087 |
3144 |
Noah born on what would be Passover. |
Flood |
1655-6 |
600 |
0 |
390 |
1010-1 |
1410 |
1440 |
1447 |
1487 |
1500 |
1864 |
2286 |
2447 |
2480 |
2487 |
2544 |
Flood starts and ends on Pentecost; Flood calendar based on Ethanim
start. |
Abraham |
2046 |
990 |
390 |
0 |
620 |
1020 |
1050 |
1057 |
1097 |
1110 |
1474 |
1896 |
2057 |
2090 |
2097 |
2154 |
Time to End Messiah was 2100 from Abraham's age 100. So 54 more years 'payback' due Gentiles. |
Exodus |
2666 |
1610 |
1010 |
620 |
0 |
400 |
430 |
437 |
477 |
490 |
854 |
1276 |
1437 |
1470 |
1477 |
1534 |
1470 = 490 x 3. To the DAY. |
David Birth |
3066 |
2010 |
1410 |
1020 |
400 |
0 |
30 |
37 |
77 |
90 |
454 |
876 |
1037 |
1070 |
1077 |
1134 |
David likely born last quarter of sacred year. |
David King Hebron |
3096 |
2040 |
1440 |
1050 |
430 |
30 |
0 |
7 |
47 |
60 |
424 |
846 |
1007 |
1040 |
1047 |
1104 |
Christ dies 10 years short. Paul
balances that fact to the green shaded numbers, via the 78 sevens. |
David King Jeru |
3103 |
2047 |
1447 |
1057 |
437 |
37 |
7 |
0 |
40 |
53 |
417 |
839 |
1000 |
1033 |
1040 |
1097 |
David crowned no later than 25 Chislev. |
David Death |
3143 |
2087 |
1487 |
1097 |
477 |
77 |
47 |
40 |
0 |
13 |
377 |
799 |
960 |
993 |
1000 |
1057 |
Temple construction began 3.5 years after he died, 1Kings 6:1, LXX. |
Temple Dedic. |
3156 |
2100 |
1500 |
1110 |
490 |
90 |
60 |
53 |
13 |
0 |
364 |
786 |
947 |
980 |
987 |
1044 |
Dedicated in Ethanim, 1Kings 8:1 |
Temple Dies |
3520 |
2464 |
1864 |
1474 |
854 |
454 |
424 |
417 |
377 |
364 |
0 |
422 |
583 |
616 |
623 |
680 |
Temple dies late August, twice. |
Chanu kah |
3942 |
2886 |
2286 |
1896 |
1276 |
876 |
846 |
839 |
799 |
786 |
422 |
0 |
160 |
193 |
200 |
257 |
Lord born on Chanukah, 9th month. |
Christ Birth |
4103 |
3047 |
2447 |
2057 |
1437 |
1037 |
1007 |
1000 |
960 |
947 |
583 |
160 |
0 |
33 |
40 |
97 |
97th birthday begins His 98th year. |
Christ Death |
4136 |
3080 |
2480 |
2090 |
1470 |
1070 |
1040 |
1033 |
993 |
980 |
616 |
193 |
33 |
0 |
7 |
64 |
980 = 490 x 2. |
Jubilee +Trib |
4143 |
3087 |
2487 |
2097 |
1477 |
1077 |
1047 |
1040 |
1000 |
987 |
623 |
200 |
40 |
7 |
0 |
57 |
57, when you count from beginning of the first year, to the end of the
last year. |
Millen-nium |
4200 |
3144 |
2544 |
2154 |
1534 |
1134 |
1104 |
1097 |
1057 |
1044 |
680 |
257 |
97 |
64 |
57 |
0 |
Mill really starts on the first day of 4201. |
Meter Notes
Paul's
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, continued
o Paul also uses 1050, to severally balance from Abraham. We saw 3096, David's
Hebron
Kingship, was 1050 from Abraham's maturation. That's no coincidence,
either. Israel was allotted her own 2100 due TO Abraham, so look: 1077 x 2 = 2154, reflects Abraham's birth as well as age 100
maturation, resulting in a 54-year 'refund' due the
Gentiles. Cute. Christ dies 2090 after Abraham's maturation, so a net
shortfall of 64, which is 7 years short of the 57th year pre-Millennium, He was supposed to
die. So 10 years short of 2100 from Abraham's maturation, too. 3096 + 2154 = 5250. That 10 years, is really a net number,
product of:
o 14 years'
overtime =
the 7-year civil war + David living 7 more years to offset it. So 54 + 14 = 68. But he ruled in Hebron 7.5 years,
1Chron3:4. Count backwards.
o 13.5 years'
net overtime
again, years from his death and Temple dedication: 68 + 13.5 = 81.5. Again, count backwards. Temple 7.5
years, 1st 6 months on stones, 1Kings 5 and LXX 1Kings 6:1, began (2?) Ziv 960 bc, ends Bul 7.5 years later, 953 (1Kings 6:37-8, 2Chron3:1-2). Meanwhile, Solomon finishes other building, total of 20
years,
1Kings 7:1. Temple Dedication is 3 years after construction, begins new 490, as
the Exodus 490 runs out -- 1 or 2 Ethanim 950 bc,
1Kings 8:1. (bc dates not adjusted for Paul.)
o 21 years'
overtime,
for Second Temple. Daniel prayed near Nisan 538 bc,
start of Darius via Cyrus, 1st regnal year, Dan 9:1. Jews returned, and are
assembled enough to celebrate Rosh HaShanah, still 538; next 18 months pass, so 537 ends; then,
Temple founded Ziv 536 bc, Ezra
3:8 vs. 3:1. They finish 3 Adar 516,
Ezra 6:15.
o So Daniel 9, prayed at start of 49th sacred year; 2 years later takes you to start of 51st sacred year. So Ziv
536 bc to 24 Chislev on
foundation, Haggai 2; construction restarts 24 Chislev 522 or very soon after.
So 21 years, seven directly on Temple (7 or 8 months spent on foundation, +2 months
after 25 Chislev 516). So 81.5 + 21 = 102.5.
o God made up
this time (14+13.5+21) with the 49 missed sabbatical years, thus 'repaying' the
Gentiles via Israel being in Diaspora.
o
So 102.5 - 49 = 53.5 So net,
Gentiles are owed the same 54 years due to Abraham, as before. Balances. (Abraham and Noah's year started on
what we call Rosh HaShanah. Noah's
maturation, occurred near what we call Passover, as that was his birthday. Hence the 6-month difference.)
o Note that distinction. The 49 missed sabbatical years were spent as time
belonging to Israel, but were wrongly used; so that gave rise to the
hanging-chad seven more sabbatical years due on the elapsed
49; which couldn't play pre-Messiah, giving
rise to the second 'seven' which is the 62nd week in Daniel. Scholars miss this, since they errantly deem
Bible years lunar, though Exodus 12 mandated solar, so Israel would never miss
her birthday.
o But that
49, Israel is in Diaspora. So it's a
credit to the Gentiles. 21 years were next spent, rebuilding
the Temple; she was back in the Land, completing the 70. So God reimbursed Gentiles for that 21 years in advance. Ergo, Isaiah 53 is 462 syllables = the
hanging chad 7 + 21 Temple rebuilding years.
o So 28
becomes 10, also balancing to Abraham. David died, then 13.5 1st Temple delay, +1 year 2nd
Temple delay (one year back in Land AFTER the year 49 had elapsed from Daniel's
prayer): 28 - 14.5 = 13.5. Christ is born based on David's age and
kingship, so now 13.5 - 3.5 = 10.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, continued
o Mid-point
here, is end of 4173, 14 years after Paul writes. At the Lord's human age 70, same as when David retired. That 4173 = David's Hebron Kingship year 1077, United Kingship Year 1070, when
David would have been 1077+30=1107 years old; Abraham would have been 2127 years
MATURE. And another 27 years from 4173, completes the Millennial allotment, the huio of huiothesian in Ephesians 1:5 (they didn't write iota subscripts, in those
days). Yeah, mirroring To the Son. Cute.
o Temple Down, here at 4173, really starting 4174; we now know that's Passover to
9th Av, Titus' final assault. Paul's wry
syllable 70 = hagious.
o Note the
10-year cutoff, balancing again to Abraham. 4173 - 40 = 4143 when the Lord should have
died, 1000th anniversary of David's death. Mirror.
o 4143 - 2046 = 2097, which is 3.5 short of the 2100 due to Abraham's
supermaturation. Hence the Trib is split
into 3.5 pieces; with the 54, becoming 57.
o He actually
died 7 years prior, year 2090 from
Abraham's maturation. So 10 years short of the total 2100 allotment. So to balance, 10 years is chopped off from the
previous 50 years for Harvesting the Gentiles, since now that period begins
seven years early. Again, to balance to
Abraham. For the other 3.5 years,
finishes the Tribulation.
o Israel was
40 years' late getting into the Land. Had she been
on time, Temple would started 40 years earlier.
The Land is 'shorted' 40 years, so here the 40 extra years Temple stands
during Church, repays that shortage.
Also, her TWO SEVENS from Daniel 9:26 and 27, are yet future. So only the 40, is 'paid'. Total? 54, still balancing to Abraham. Temple year 1000 is also 4146 from Adam, 54
years
o 4173 is Temple Year 1017 measured from 1st Temple, as we saw here. It was supposed
to last until mid-4197, 54 years after He was supposed
to die. So it was supposed to be 'age'
1040 at death. Just as the Lord was
supposed to be age 40 in the 1040th anniversary of David's United Kingship
(4143), and then die. Mirror.
o But again,
just as 28 became 10, Temple dies in its Year 1017, since it represents
Christ: so Temple dies 23 years
younger than it should be.
o Mirror: Paul writes end 4159, 23 years after the Lord's death, 14 years before the Temple will die, net of what? 10.
o Again,
balancing to Abraham: 4196 - 2046 = 2150 - 13.5 - 10 = 2126.5 + 2046 = 4172.5. Temple's anniversary is six months later.
o A correct formula will balance in more than one way; we see
Paul use diverse balancing formulas to tie both to past and future prophecy, as
well as to real history then and later known. So all this number-crunching STILL isn't
enough. Paul hubs back-and-forward in
Time, more than I show. Yet at least
you've an idea, what he's doing.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, BC/AD conversion
So now we detour into how Adamic
years 'fit' our own calendars. The
answer is so simple, you'll die: Paul
uses Roman accounting. We call it Anno Domini,
but that's just another version of years from a king -- here, King of the Jews
and King of Kings. Regnal years are like
birthdays. So first king of the world,
Adam: his age, is Bible's base accounting.
No bc, ad or auc.
Both Roman and our bc/ad
calendars have 3-year padding or subtractions.
Ironically, their calendar errors offset each other. So how do we match Adam's age to the NAME
of the years we use, to convert Bible's years, into 'ours'? Let's see.
(Click here to skip over this subsection.)
1. Rome's founding year
was GUESSED. Its own calendar has
a very tangled past. Scholars have
no end of trouble reconciling it. Romans were
superstitious about numbers; sometimes
they just removed unlucky
days. Weeks were 8 days, months in a
'year' were 10 or sometimes 12; sometimes the month name, didn't correspond to
the same month name every year; they
used a 377 or 378 or 356 or 364 or 358 -day 'year'; or, lunar; not only that, but priests of
Rome set the definition of 'year' in any year. Worse, years
were defined by consul names. What a
nightmare. Pre-45
BC, their calendar at times started in September, versus Jewish March 21 or
so. Or, sometimes with January. December ended the year even when it didn't
end the year. Under Julius Caesar, this
horror got standardized to a solar year; but when they created the fix, they
guessed and made many unknown corrections, to the past. They were not
consistent. Romans debated the results.
Good historians like
Polybius more properly chopped off four years from the Roman auc that Varro invented. In Augustus' and Claudius' time, Varro's gap & guess became law: Rome was
deemed born in what we now call 753 bc. Claudius celebrated Rome's 800th year in 47
AD, which means 753 = beginning of year 47.
So 753+47=800. So the
problem with reconciling to Bible, isn't Bible's fault: but rather, the fault
of these screwball old calendars. And
there's no zero, since a new year 1 begins
after the old ending.
2. Some
accounting basics: 1+1 counts BOTH numbers as
wholes. Same, when you subtract. But a year is zero at its beginning, and 1
at its end. So you must know how many months in both year 'x', and
'x+1'. Your 30th birthday, is a
whole; 30th anniversary of your birth at age 0;
you are '30 years old'; 30 years have elapsed. But you've also started your 31st
year. You are in your 31st year until
your 31st birthday. So in 'year 31', you
attain age 31. So were you
crowned early or late age 0, it's still year
one of rule; its anniversary 30
years later, is your 31st year. But
you've only ruled for 30. Also, if
reconciling to a calendar, the number of months in 'year' x, might be
different.
3. Augustus
dates his reign at Battle of Actium, September 2, 723 auc = 31 bc = 753-30, at end of calendar
year; but birthday of his new
reign = year one. So:
753-723= 30th 'age' = anniversary of Augustus' victory, at end. But 31st year of his reign all year, if he counted his victory year as 'one', to align with the Jan-Dec (Julian)
calendar.
4. Compounding
this problem: year 753 is
called 1 bc, by historians. So 1AD =754.
So start of 14 AD is 753 + 14 = 767 auc. It's not Augustus' 44th anniversary, until
September. He died
in August, just before his 77th
birthday that September, so historians count his rule as 44 years. But maybe he called that his
45th regnal year. Olde
English reconciliation chart. Reconcile
start vs. end of year. Allow a variance
of +1 or -1. And, if a partial year is counted as '1', maybe add another '1' .
5. Next
problem: Catholics
chopped off 4 years from Augustus, and made 754 = 1AD. Thus we get a disparity of 30 versus 33 AD
for Christ. 3-year difference, since
He's born at the end of the year.
Catholic error cancels Roman four-year overstatement of the auc;
the 4-year problem remains. Rome is likely four years younger. Bible uses the years-from accounting, so auc total's value, doesn't matter. Neither does the Catholic error. Just reconcile to Adam, and you'll be
okay.
6. God knows
we can't add or subtract. So Bible
communicates with dates people use. Doesn't mean
God agrees with those dates. In
accounting, you balance between diverse number systems, to 'translate'
them. So '2nd year of Darius', is what Darius
called his second year. So you use
it. Same here, for Rome. The NT was written to folks under Rome; hence two Time Accountings are used in
NT: Bible's own, and Roman.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary: BC/AD conversion, continued
7. Luke 3:1 says 15th year of Tiberius:
Roman accounting. So, LATE in
what we today call 29 ad aka 782 auc. Tiberius attains his 15th
anniversary of rule, that year. It's straightforward. He's soon to be 30, so it's late fall or
winter. So
you count BACKWARDS 15, then 15 more, to get to His Birth. Couldn't be simpler.
a.
Augustus died 'our' August
19, 14 ad, Suetonius para. 100
on Augustus. Paul wryly tracked to this
as I showed in the GGS 11 videos, with Augustus dying at kuriou, 14th
syllable: when Augustus is deified. Cute. So Paul tallies to
Christ's age 14. Tracks the eudokian thele syllables for Trajan,
Macrinus, Diocletian who each adopted an heir, then died at that syllable. Here, Christ will be age 15, by December, as
you'll see below. For Bible uses
last-birthday accounting.
b.
So the beginning, is year one of Tiberius. Think of year one as the year which becomes 1, by its end. Same idea, for any year numbered from
1+. The Emperors typically didn't
piggyback their year one on the
last year of a prior emperor. But there
are exceptions, and co-regencies.
Here, it's net of co-regency
with Augustus.
c.
So a new year one can be
piggybacked on old year x or a zero. So you
need to know what old year, the '1' begins.
d.
In those days, the Roman calendar year stably began on 1 January. Augustus died in August, only four months
prior.
e.
If Tiberius used September for his own regnal birthday, as some
rulers did -- the 'new' year is still the same year
one, beginning two weeks after Augustus died.
f.
So Tiberius' Year 15 =
late 29 AD in 'our' terms, in all cases.
Simple. Just a question of how
late in year 15. And we know how late it
was, given what comes next.
g.
Jesus was nearly 30 that year, Luke 3:23. So we know 'year 15', is before Chislev. Very near it. So Tiberius uses September prior, or
January current, as his regnal 'birthday'.
So his 15th year either started in September, and Luke 3:23 is soon
after, for Chislev is in Roman December -- or Tiberius is near the end of his 15th
year, even as Christ is near
the end of His age 29, in His 30th year, near His 30th birthday. God's Word loves accounting
equidistance: so bet on both being
near end-year.
h.
Equidistance: count back 15 more:
you get 29th anniversary, but 30th year of Augustus.
i.
Chanukah occurred at the end of that Roman year. So 753
= 1 bc, begins Augustus' year 30, Christ's year one. When
He's age 0. So
think of '1 bc' as 'Birth of Christ'.
j.
The Lord is Age One STARTING One AD, even per Paul's meter:
End 752, He's Born for you;
At Chanukah's start, in Bread Town, too.
End 753 Roman auc;
He's turned Age One, when that year is done!
So 752 is bc 2,
and 753 is 1 bc.
Rome's founding year bc,
now His:
and now you know, when His Birthday is.
So 754 is 1 ad:
Age One all year, 'til Christmas cheer.
End 7 8 6,
He's age thirty-three, at the close of thirty-two ad.
Three months later, He dies for sins: thirty-three ad,
Passover. Wins.
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Appendix
I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, BC/AD conversion, continued
k.
So in 29 ad when Luke
writes, the Lord is nearly at His 30th birthday, as Luke says. Our 'ad'
equals His AGE, same as God's pan-Bible, last-birthday accounting.
m.
So we know Bible adjusts to Roman
time, in its reporting. Doesn't matter, the Romans
misdate Rome's founding. Bible names the
persons and their regnal years, so that's when He was born; balances to the
calculations we use today. So now you
know how to read the OT, too. Bible will
'translate' into the rulers' conventions.
n.
So it also doesn't matter that the Catholic adjustment, in essence
deletes three-four years. The year itself, is the same: only its name,
changed. Luke 3:1 and 23, when Christ
was nearly 30; yeah, He has to be
tempted first, before He can announce Himself in Luke 4:16 at age 30, same
as David crowned in Hebron.
o.
So we maybe know something else:
it was likely soon after Booths aka Sukkoth, that He went to fast
and be tested. In time for, His Birthday
announcement.
p.
So Paul is consistent. He writes after
the Roman auc=753 was made law, so dates year one of Christ, as the START
of 753 auc, just as Claudius did back
in 47, when inaugurating the Games. For
Christ is born at the very end of the Roman year 752 auc. No wonder
Paul's meter ties to 'our' ad
years of Roman history.
q.
So now the Adamic conversion. Year 4103 from Adam is His Birth Year. David was
probably crowned late in 3103, for Christ was born Kislev
(9th month) 4103.
Scholars mess up Christ's birth: they heed Josephus, deem David's death, age
70: so they misread (or ignore) 1Kings 2:11-39, 6:1, 37-38, 1Chron 3:4, 2Chron
3:2. So they
ineptly claim Christ born (4000 or) 4100 years after Adam, net of the
offsetting Catholic error. But He
was born (net) 3 years later. Worse, they misaccount Bible's years as lunar,
so they also misread Daniel 9:26; so
they don't see their 7-year error (490 lunar = 483 solar). To adjust, they ineptly set bc backwards 3 years, or ad forward 3 years: neither method
works! Good thing we have Bible's own
words and meter, to straighten us out!
r.
So treat Roman Year 753 = 4103. So HIS AGE is reflected by 4104 =
754 = 'our' 1 ad. So 4133, He's age 30. Per historians, that's 29AD which Bible calls
Tiberius' 15th year. So now subtract 30,
and you get 'their' 1 bc aka 753,
as the year containing His first birthday.
s.
Difference is 4103 - 753 = 3350. So Christ should have died 793 auc -- really, start of 794, as 14 Nisan is 1st month Jewish, (end) 3rd
month Roman; and Millennium should
have occurred 850 auc (really 851,
first day of it). But He died in 786 auc (start of 787). Now you know why Paul's accounting, tracks so
well to Roman time.
8.
Next, on Quirinius, Luke 2:2. Greek verb hegemoneuw means to have an
authority to rule, a command, or a rank of command. The only records we have of him being
governor of Syria, allegedly, are from 6/7 ce. So of course we automatically deem the Bible
wrong? Quirinius was a roving emissary for Augustus. We don't have all the Roman records of his
travels and functions. So if he had a
special authority to collect taxes,
he would be 'governor', alright, but with a special charge. It's a rank.
That rank can be for special or general purposes. For special, he still must be granted the same rank to have the requisite
authority, even if only temporary or for a special purpose. And it would be a special purpose to
institute a new taxation system, which thereafter the regular governor can
handle. Greek verb is general, but Luke specifies a purpose. English 'while' isn't in the Greek. He obviously denotes a one-time event:
inauguration of the first Judaean census, under Roman administration.
o Luke does not state any year of
office; he'd have
to say what year of governorship it was,
if Quirinius had the office of governor, rather than a
special task. Else you wouldn't know what year, even if you knew the name of
the governor. Luke had to say what year of Tiberius, as his was a term of office. But Luke doesn't mention any term of office
for Quirinius. Instead, he just notes the function
of starting the census. So we
know it was a rank, not an 'office' of governor.
o
Augustus changed the
tax law in 27 bc to a head
tax. It was a major change, the Senate
fought him; it went into effect for the
provinces, circa 12 bc or so. Just Google on 'Augustan
tax reform', and pick whatever sites you like (UNRV and Cato are helpful; also Perez pdf, p.2 of
search). 10 years later, is 2 bc.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, BC/AD conversion, continued
o However,
in Judaea, Herod personally
administered Roman taxes until he died. Some years
he paid the taxes personally, instead
of wholly taxing the Jews. This was
done to keep peace. Again, you can find
many sites on this, and even documentaries on Herod from the History Channel, ISBE
Encyclopedia, etc.
o So we won't find ROMAN records of
this first census, since HEROD handled it. Herod
is dying in what we call '4 bc' =
1 bc. So if Augustus designated Quirinius as 'governor' for that
special function of collecting a head tax already handled by the Jewish system as part of Temple tax
collection; since dying Herod wanted Augustus to administer his own will; then
it's a special kind of 'governorship'.
Augustus has a trustee
function with respect to the will
of Herod; so this isn't a normal SPQR operation. Same rank needed, but special function of
behalf of the imperium. Would be the
first Roman census all the same, as Herod was dying. Would be in Jewish not Roman records, as Herod managed
Roman tax collection via Jews i.e., Matthew the tax
collector. Even logic, would tell
you that.
o
If Quirinius was to
collect the Jewish tax, why not collect it for the whole region that year?
He'd already
be in the area, since he was rector to Gaius, who was
then in Syria to head off Phraates V's rebellion. Aha, many troops to protect the money,
honey. Handy justification for Quirinius' rank, to do a job of private
imperial trusteeship. All the 'governors' involved,
would love to save expense/hassle of transport, too. Here they get a respected Imperial emissary
who is so trusted, he cares for Augustus' own family! Whew.
And of course being so trusted, Quirinius can act as eyes and ears,
someone outside the system. Auditing
it. Ooops.
o Rather,
now we better value why Luke wrote as he did:
he distinguishes between the FIRST census, and the one in 6 ce which caused the uproar. For the next time Quirinius does it, he HAS the office
of governor (Bible loves wordplay) -- when Judaea became a province in 6 ce -- they revolted.
o That second
census, is its own first: for in 6 ce, the Romans
no longer use the Jewish system; Judaea became a province as a result of Herod's will
and Augustus' ruling on it; due to fights over Archelaus. Surely Quirinius was used, as he was
familiar to the Jews, 7 years later.
See, Luke is tying cause and result, by wordplay. That's a frequent rhetorical style, in Bible,
to link two related events with wordplay.
Here, same guy as before.
Two firsts: first due to Herod
dying, then a new first provincial status,
as a result of Herod dying. Luke's
readers would smile at the connection.
Luke is very fond of finessed understatement.
9.
Historians also use Herod's death
year; they use astronomy, to date
it. So we must go through that, next. We know from Bible that Christ's birth is only three
months prior to Herod's death (Chanukah to Passover). Roman
historians use eclipses to date Herod's death. But there are eclipses every year. So pick
the wrong one, and you get the wrong year.
Whether the right 'eclipse' should be visible from Rome or Jerusalem, is
another factor. Scholars guess at this
stuff. So their estimates can be
wrong. Yet even eclipses they use, still
balance to Christ's birthdate. Choose
the eclipse of Jan 1 BC or March 4 BC for Herod, and we still balance.
Why do we still balance? Paul might be correcting the Roman auc. Everyone Paul wrote, knew Varro cobbled an
estimated 35 regnal years per 'king'.
Augustus made that fashionable, and Claudius made it law. God foreknew 'our' 4 bc remains based on it, and what problems we'd have
reconciling to Bible, as a result.
4 bc should also be 1 bc, as Christ is born 3 years later than scholars account, due to
David's SEVEN years' later death. The Catholic
error cut four years from Augustus' reign, so masks error amount; as scholars insist on misreading Bible's
Exodus 12 command of solar years, and instead treat years as lunar in Daniel
9:26, they don't see how that verse exposes their seven-year discrepancy.
So for centuries we've wasted millions of dollars, wrangling over His
Birth year. All due to laziness.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, BC/AD conversion, continued
Josephus' account of Herod's Temple has a 3-year
accounting variance that might undo 'proof' by contenders of a 4 bc eclipse, based on a 20 bc construction start. Or, just
its announcement. So if Josephus
dates from when Herod conquered Jerusalem 37 bc,
construction began 16 bc. John 2:20's '46 years' tallies to Luke 2:23,
at 30 ad.
[Eclipse-dating
follows the Roman AUC system. He was
born 3 months before Herod died. Key
here is Mosaic law re the 40 days' purification AT TEMPLE, Luke 2:39, Leviticus
12. Next key, Herod's killing infants up
to two years old: mothers stopped
nursing, at the baby's age two;
eliminates guesswork, to just kill all sucklings. Next, Bible text of Matthew and Luke imply NO
long delay between Birth and Herod's death;
text is short, staccato, go to Bethlehem, return to Nazareth after at
least 40 days of purification from Chanukah (which ran 8 days), and 6 days'
travel back -- then the magi arrive in Nazareth -- oikia, Matt 2:11, not
phatne, Luke 2:7; that same
night, Joseph leaves for Egypt, so the magi were tracked by Herod's spies,
Matt2:16. Note Joseph has gold from the
magi. Greek paidion is used for
any child except a newborn. So Matthew
2:9, 13, 14, 16 use paidion -- verse 16, all males BELOW 2 years
old. It's also a term of
endearment. So Christ is maybe 60 days
old when they left for Egypt = end Shebat.
Bible says nothing more, so they didn't stay long. Would have taken 15-30 days' travel. Herod lives another month (Adar); then
Augustus audits Herod's will, which is violently contested. Say
another six months.]
10. Christ is born 4103 from Adam.
That's real. We
provably misread Bible's years. That's real, too. Yet we've seen how His Death is balanced to
Abraham's too-early maturation, in the Mosaic Law; and, to other major dates in
the Bible Time Distance Table, which only derive from Bible. Noah's predecessors are all accounted,
there. Just add siring ages. After Jacob, Bible lists time based on other
events: Joseph's age when kidnapped, Jacob's age on entering Egypt, etc. So, you use those. Occasionally, God balances back to a birth,
especially David's in 1Kings 6:1, so we misread it -- and, to Christ. Whose witty Birthday prophecy no one
recognizes, in Haggai 2. But Luke and
Matthew's wordplay show Chanukah plainly enough. Greek wordplay on Adar in Luke 1:36 compared
with verse 26 is plain. So too, Lights,
shepherds seeing angels but no one else did;
the Family's guardian angel playing 'star' to moonstruck-magi and moderns,
yet no one in Jerusalem saw it, Matt 2:3 -- while the Family roomed in Bethlehem then
Jerusalem, during Mary's post-partum purification; then to Nazareth =
Chanukah = 'dedicated'. As in, Feast
of Lights, Dedication.
11. So our bc/ad snafu reflects a real snafu in TIME,
the 3.5 year lag between David's death and Temple start. We
deemed David dead at 70, added 3.5 years, so are short the other 3.5, to balance to Christ: Who was born 3.5
years later than that, due to David's seven
years later death, to die within allotted TEMPLE time. In GeneYrs.xls, I plotted out how
Temple Time was based on David's 490-year time grants. Each grant ran out, 1 - 3 years later. So Temple would lose protection, had it not
been rebuilt in time. We don't notice
that connection, as our 3.5-year errors offset: so we often end up with
the right bc and ad dates. So our David's
Death error, persists:
·
4-year overstatement of Roman auc, re its total age; maybe due
in part to fake consuls plugged in, during the 300's BC. Or other reasons.
·
Another four-year error, this one Catholic, debiting Augustus' own
time. Offset.
·
Others are due to ambiguities over measuring regnal-year start points, or
similar conundra, like
·
do you measure Tiberius 15th year including or
excluding his co-regency? Difference? 3-4!
Offsetting!
·
Then, the eclipse thingy: 3-4 years there, too. Again, offsetting.
·
Or, when Herod really began building the Temple: measured from two different regnal periods,
and the difference? 3-4 years! Offsetting!
·
Our scholars mistaking David's death age by what? 3-4 years, net of offset with the 3.5 year
hiatus, in 1Kings 6:1!
·
Temple construction's total 7.5 year period
which suddenly becomes 10 -- is it esconced within the interim between David's
death, so is upfront, and what about it beginning in Ziv, but ending in
Bul? Measured from what? Difference?
3.5 years, from David's death, in either
direction.
·
Chanukah is three years after the
Temple desecration which we call 167, so Chanukah is 164, each in our 'bc'.
·
Daniel 9:26's 483 years, are not lunar. So its extra
seven years, is ignored. Yet that
too, is offset by the seven year cut they make in David's age at death, which
in turn is offset by the usual credit they add for deeming his rule at 1000 bc.
So we still get to the right birth year, either 4 bc
or 1 bc?
Difference...
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I, How
Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: eudokian+epainon 78 sevens Time Balance Summary, BC/AD conversion, continued
Isn't that recurring 3.5 year anomaly amazing? Yeah, and maybe it warns us, we don't
reconcile correctly. Worse, we don't
account time backwards from endpoints, though Bible always does -- Luke 3:23
for example, requires you to calculate BACKWARDS. So we make more errors. Numbers bore us. So we allow errors to
repeat, and don't Return To The Source,
Scripture. So we continue the inane
Ussher chronology, now a lie 1500 years old, retold daily. Since we want simple answers. Because we accept Dear Dr. So and So's
'respectable' calculation of the past, however honestly or dishonestly WRONG it
was. Because we won't admit error. Etc.
12. In any
event, the Lord was to
die the 1000th year of David's death, 4143 from
Adam. Paul accounts to match Roman time, as that's
what people used: 752 auc =
Christ's birth, end of that year.
So Paul writes in 56 based on that
accounting; maybe his letter wasn't delivered by Tychicus until 58-59, so
perhaps we mistake where Paul was, when he wrote. The postscript re Tychicus, could have been
added later, when sending the circular letter. The audience getting the letter, would know
if it was written two years prior. The
meter is plain enough. Or, maybe it was
currently delivered in 56, and Paul wrote while in jail, still in
Palestine. He was treated well, not yet
tried. He had rights.
We call that year 58-59, which also reflects the offsetting errors which
continue to dog us. Our accountings go
back and forth between Bible's years, and the Roman. So are not consistent. So sometimes the dates are right, and
sometimes wrong. The Roman accounting
doesn't include the three year cutoff of David's age. But as you've seen, it has its own error
problems. So when someone says '58'
based on the Roman accounting, you'll have a one or even two (for rounding)
variance, versus Paul. When the error is
compounded by using the Roman calendar in conjunction with Bible years, people
will just adjust back or forward to what they think right; sometimes the error cancels out the error
made with respect to David, and sometimes not.
And we never fix it by going back to the Bible, but instead just repeat
the same old information based on hearsay.
It's a nightmare. But then, we
never fix the lie of Good Friday, either.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I, How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: Parallel Temple Trio Time Balance Summary
Temple Trio means God Rescues History
Via Individual Believers Who Vote For Bible.
Especially, amidst Apostasy.
o From proetheto to prothesin, 301-231 = 70 syllables. Voting. Bad votes by believers, caused Diocletian. Moldy display 'bread' for Christ.
o From prothesin to proelpikotas, 343-301, 42 syllables. Generation Building. God uses Persecution and Diaspora under Diocletian and then Constantine, to enable Generation
Building Outside Corrupt Roman Empire.
Hence Rome herself, shrinks and breaks apart.
Sum is 112. Temple Trio factors: 70 and 42, equal 56 x 2, as parallel;
aka, 16 sevens. So the Trio historically parallels Isaiah 53, Daniel 9:11+12,
and 25+26.
o
Isaiah paired 70's, 42's,
and 56's. The latter, in Isaiah
53:1+2, 5+6, cover Manasseh and Temple
Down, see 2Kings 24. From
Passover to Pentecost to 9th Av.
o
Daniel tracks Isaiah's chronology, so paired 58's (to stress lateness), Dan9:11+12 (on time of Manasseh, reason
for Temple Down). Missed the holy appointments.
o
God paired 57's to show
timeline of 2nd Temple Going Down, Dan 9:25+26.
Time from Passover to 9th Av, counting the days on which the holidays
fall.
o
So Paul here equates paired 56's, thus 'talking back to' all three
passages. That means Church will go
down, too, aka Rapture. But by then, it will be complete, due to the proelpikotas being completed.
So the day of exit, is not counted.
So 56, not 57. And no 58, since God Will Do It On Time. So Paul stops the meter at 434.
o Sum of all three anaphora:
94 sevens = 658 - 16 overlap in eudokian = 586 (bc) +56. Balances back to Daniel 9:4 and Isaiah 53:4, from
year Paul writes. Paul picks up at Temple Down, as Messiah's 'body' is Temple Built. So Paul prays
for its building in
Eph1:15-23; so Eph 2 is about Temple
walls;
so Eph 3 explains its 'mystery' -- hidden until Israel
halted construction -- so Church construction takes as long as it takes. Eph 4 says how: Church
is built via BIBLE taught -- was that chapter in any prelate's Bible? Guess not. For 'church father' Gentile
Pharisees write pil-pul tomes on clothing, bathing, what HOUR do you fast?! But Eph 5 says BIBLE USED defeats
Satan in Eph 1:10 Trial. BIBLE, not baby
behavior. Eph 6 Roman panoply, is but
chirped. So Paul prays Eph1:15-23, 3:15-19, since God just had him plot Church
Childish, Future!
o
Note the overlap is subtracted, to
balance back to Daniel and Isaiah. The
subtraction means God
Rectifies Time. Overlap is from 215-231, in the eudokian anaphora. There were
two imbalances: first, in eudokian anaphora, the Severan period: when civil war,
mothers and babies rule; for 'Mother
Church' was
invented by Irenaeus, Tertullian, and above all Origen, who saw Church as utopia. Other
imbalance was Constantinian period, overlapped in the epainon anaphora. It was offset by Paul
benching at 133, not 121, where the 1st epainon began. Net imbalance was +2, by end of the epainon. 1st epainon is only 12 syllables, but the 2nd's
overlap = 14 (434-320). So -2 in Flood-Duration tie, 133 - 334. Genesis 7-8, Days Flood remained pre-raven but post-rain = 203.
Paul uses 201. Balances. So next he tied Noahic Genesis entry/exit at 57+57, to Dan9:25+26. Balances 2nd epainon pair; also ties to Noah's entry/exit, exactly. [+2 is also a BC/AD adjustment: Christ was born at
end of Roman year.]
o So in Temple Trio, Paul again mates Dan9:25+26. Another -2. Temple Trio equates to 56+56, not 57+57. Why? Church begins and ends on JEWISH TIME. Rapture is both Crucifixion and Ascension
parallel. Jewish day begins at
sunset. One day short
entry/exit. Started on Pentecost. Exits on Rapture. Methu+selah: when she exits, it begins. Meaning? Church is the '56' of History.
Individually. Just as Daniel was,
for Israel. This INDIVIDUAL meaning is so
vital, Paul tags Dan 9:25+26 three times: eudokian sum = Dan9:24-27; then 2nd epainon = Dan9:25+26; now Temple Trio, as both a 70 and a 42, which equals two 56's: thus Paul ties to those verses
in Isaiah 53, as well.
o
God thus targets Constantine as Revelation 17 Model Of
Apostasy: meter links his years thrice to Flood Judgment, then to Manasseh,
Temple Down, End of Time. Timing of Temple Trio meter links his death year
as failure to become proelpikotas, instead dying as merely proel. Flat condemnation of ecumenism
in any form.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: Parallel Time Balance Summary, continued
Three-anaphora-Doctrine Summary: God Makes Church Balance Time. Individually. He flat condemns ecumenism; it caused Apostasy, as it superimposes a
group of 'elites' between God and you. The
ultimate idolatry and fornication, is religion.
It substitutes self people things, for relationship with God. That's been Bible's theme since Genesis. Religion comes in two flavors, ascetic and
indulgent. Both substitute out
relationship with God, in favor of fitting
in with people. Israel used its
priesthood and rituals to create an intervening human power,
thus violating the Law. Church did the
same thing. So Bible always shows that
only individuals carry Time; for
only One Individual, paid for sins. So it's never a 'group' thing.
Societies need governing; but spiritual life is always and only Individual. So Paul traces that fact
in three anaphora. Mated them to Flood and Israel's past, to parallel
then-future, Church failure. Church
will not go God's Way. BE WARNED. Revelation then 'talks back to'
Ephesians, to show that apostasy. Thus
proving, the future warned against. Ends
with Rapture as Group Failure, but
Individual Success. Made by, the Holy
Spirit.
o First, via eudokian anaphora, Autonomy: How God Rectifies Time, to Preserve
Autonomy. Started at Trajan, when apostolic
succession
lie became popular; ended at Constantine, when that same lie became
a government. Believe as I command, else you suffer. So God reduced the impact of that tyranny, first
by using 3rd century brawling-bishop fractiousness, to splinter Rome's ruling
spheres; then, He used persecution by Diocletian and the
Constantines,
to cut Rome up. So the eudokian anaphora ends at 320, when the toleration edicts
were newly passed. exit window, opened. Time to Flee. The
window will close, in 360's.
Paul thus parallels Bible history:
same past tyranny character
of Time, to know what time it is, 'now'. So, he
balances first to Isaiah 53's 126, Manasseh and his
successors. Daniel stressed it, so Paul
ties to Daniel, too. Whole eudokian meter mates Daniel 9:24-27. Yep, that bad. The 'kings' are church leaders who sought to
rule the world, instead of being ruled by God.
Ironic, since each believer has a kingly inheritance -- 'inherit the
kingdom', in Galatians, inter alia -- if he learns God, instead of the
world. But the bishops, favor Caesar. So
Paul maps the eudokian meter to Isaiah
53:3-10, to
link the character of that time, to the character of Church denouement. Paul then mates the meter sum, to Daniel
9:24-27: to link timing
of Church denouement, and to show god's
judgment, of it.
o
Second, the epainon anaphora shows God balances Time to Care
For Bible. You can't
praise Him without Word, Hebrews 11:6;
so He makes sure you can always Get Word. And if you refuse, you perish. The bishops refused. They substituted petty rituals, gossip, made
up miracle lies, the works. Just read
the 'church fathers'.
o So, whole epainon meter = Daniel 9:14-19 = why Jerusalem was razed (read here: Jerusalem II and Rome).
o Last epainon pair also piggybacks Dan9:25+26. Parallel: mene mene
tekel upharsin. Church And Her
Self-Styled Rulers, Belittle Bible. So God scatters Bible outside
Rome, from Bar Kochba to Odovacer; decimating Jerusalem then
Rome, in the process. Enabling, exodus.
o For Lev 26, Deut 28 apply to
Custodians of Word: so if Rome won't Care for Bible, God won't Care for
Rome.
o Flood time. Hence bald Noah tie on five
levels:
o
Daniel 9:14-19 and hence Paul's meter, triple-match Days Noah was
in the Ark: at 308, +7, and +50. To play on 'Year' analogy, as Noah's time is
precedence.
o
Next, Paul made first epainon pair match post-rain,
pre-raven Flood Time.
o
Finally, Paul used the 2nd epainon pair to triple-match 57+57:
o
= Noah's entry/exit time.
o
= Passover to 9th Av judgment on 2nd Temple. = Flood of Troops in Dan 9:25-26. Which Paul metered prophetically,
10-years-future. Thus it occurred.
o
So 2nd epainon, spanning 320-434, is God's Negative Ruling Against Constantine: all his own progeny die next generation; then Rome itself breaks up, by the fourth
generation of successors. Rather blatant
show of Divine Disapproval. Strong
warning against imitation, huh.
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I links: 1st eudokian
1st eudokian+1st epainon 2nd eudokian 2nd eudokian
God's Meaning 3rd eudokian
3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
eudokian+3rd epainon Appendix II
Appendix I,
How Paul 'mates' the anaphora to History: Parallel Time Balance Summary, continued
o
Then, Paul severally balances to
Adam, using sum of eudokian anaphora plus epainon, first to the old Millennial
schedule; then moved right on, Christ bought a new 490 -- during which some new proelpikotas must mature -- to buy the Rest of harvest time. Now a recurring 490 replaces the original 50-year Harvest-the-Gentiles,
allotment. Sudden death, if at least
one person, doesn't supermature.
o We know the first person was
Paul, 2Tim4:7-8.
o It's a Time loop: we Church individually
are always the '56' of
History.
If someone doesn't supermature to get that +490 each cycle, History ends.
o With Rapture. As a societal
group we'll be ready, Ephesians 4:13.
Meaning, mostly peons who didn't bother to mature, in the time
given. So we don't get more time. Rapture
happens when believers ALL quit on Bible. How? Ecumenism. Dark Ages II, only far
worse. Pattern of the first 434 years; at end, only Spirit Votes; only the few, mature. Most Christians remain apostate throughout Church
Age. So just as Rome, Jerusalem, the
Jews and apostate 'church' lost time, so will we.
o
So now third, Temple Trio, how 490 individual supermaturation, works:
o Christ Set Before, like a
meal. That's proetheto.
o We 'eat' His thinking, so
become Shewbread like Him. That's prothesin.
o A few mature earlier, so are
the proelpikotas: Buying Time for the rest
of the 'crop', To Grow. To Buy time for
the whole world, actually. Same since
Adam.
o The historical parallel is
to Noah, Isaiah and Daniel again, as in the 2nd epainon -- focusing on 56 or 57 or
58, don't be late like Manasseh!
o But oh, Church was late:
o
231-301, moldy bread vote;
o
301-343,
moldy bakery generated,
o
so God generated the end of Constantine, and then Rome.
o So the epainon of the proelpikotas could complete Autonomy, and hence Bible Care.
o Moral of verses 13-14,
outcome of Temple Trio: Go it Alone, as Christ Did. In
His day, Jewish 'elders' corrupted Judaism.
In our day: Church 'elders'.
o
Thus Paul fully accounts how Church
Completes and Balances Time, Eph1:10's theme.
Both to Millennium, and to his date of writing. FULL
CIRCLE. The anaphora
metrically tie to Millennial accounting in 15-18 ways (severally and in
aggregations). Perhaps the ones most
relevant for us, are:
o 586+56 = 94 sevens -16. The -16 is
the eudokian imbalance. Ties to Daniel and Isaiah's use of 586bc, as we saw. For Christ should have died at age 40, not
33.
o Next,
subtract epainon imbalance
of 14: so 56, becomes 42. = Paul's date of writing: 4200 - 42 =
4158. For God gave Gentiles 2100; then, 2100 to the Jews. 2nd 2100 = age 98 (start) for Christ; for He was supposed to die at age 40, = King
as long as David; 57 years after that,
Millennium was to begin.
o Also unadjusted: 94 sevens = 98+490+70, which balances backwards
to Adam and Christ's Birth, then forward:
new Time Grants, for Church.
o Next, adjusted solely for epainon imbalance: 94 sevens =
658 x 7 = 4606 -14-434 =4158, the year Paul writes: as 56 years INTO the new 490.
o Full circle. Greek drama focused
on a DAY. Unity of time and place and space, Hebrew l'moed: all fed into
and from, that Day. While yet Today. Day of the Lord. Every day. So, 'day' with
adjustments. He died 7 years early,
91AD. If no Rapture,
a new 490 begins, + 70-year voting period, same model ever since Adam
fell. Now you know why John
wrote Revelation in 91 AD. Why he
uses Aristotle's
Poetics to craft Revelation's Real and Future Time, as a quadrilogy, mix of
epic and tragedy: Play 1 = Rev 1-3,
Church; Play 2 = Rev 4-19, Trib; Play 3 = Rev 18-20, Mill; Play 4 = Rev21-22:5,
Eternity; Rev 22:6ff as moral/epilogue.
Keying off, Ephesians.
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Appendix II: Reconciliation Hypothesis for Diocletian's Death Date
in 316
Modern scholars debate Lactantius'
validity. So let's re-order the
facts given us, logically; then play 'what if'.
Tell me if you find any contra facts.
a.
In
May 311, Galerius
dies. Dynastic alliances now are
mission-critical. Galerius was maybe age 61 when he died. Was married to Diocletian's daughter Galeria Valeria since 293,
and there were no kids in that marriage.
He had a son and daughter, prior.
We don't know Valeria's age, but she'd been married to Galerius for 18 years when he dies. So she's probably age 35-40. She adopted his
son, Candidianus, who is in his late teens, and is betrothed to a daughter of
Daza's.
b.
Maxentius is about age 33 here, and married to Galerius' daughter (by his first wife), since 293.
They have at least one son who at this point is about age 17.
c.
Licinius, longtime chum of Galerius -- they were in the army together
-- has 'grey
hairs' so is probably 46 at this point, thus maybe nine years older than
Constantine.
d.
Licinius is single; this is very odd. He was made Caesar back in 308 (Carnuntum),
yet no marriage deal was made? So maybe Licinius
first planned to marry Valeria. In 310,
Galerius lay dying, and Maximian was dead. Licinius
knew Valeria for years. It would have been best, to
marry him. If Licinius had proposed, she said no; or, made excuses to delay. So the match
with Constantia, resulted from her refusal/delay. (How else account his being single
in 308-310, his later hostility towards Valeria? Why else would
she be safer in Daza's
territory, per
Lactantius d.M.P. 39? Why else
return after Daza's death, "willing to bestow..
that which she denied to Daia"?)
e.
Ergo,
Licinius secretly
negotiated to marry Constantia, who was Constantine's sister. (She had to be age 18 or younger, since Constantius had married Theodora circa 293.) Constantine would not move against Maxentius, until he had his flanks covered. So
he covered them, after Galerius
died in 311. Licinius would not have contracted with Constantine, so long as Galerius lived.
There was probably another secret deal, to save Galerius' daughter and grandson, from Maxentius.
f. Or, the match to Constantia was proposed while Galerius long lay dying, and he approved. Secretly. He's thinking, Maybe Constantine will get
killed; my loyal friend
Licinius will get the Empire, and my son Candidianus
can succeed him. Maybe Diocletian, broached the idea in the first place.
g.
In
any case, Diocletian knew and approved, surely. For Diocletian was against Daza, for
Constantine, for
unity, and this 'procedure' was the very thing he'd set up. This explains why Diocletian didn't help
Maximian nor Maxentius. They weren't
playing Empire according to the rules Diocletian set up.
h.
So
Licinius thinks he will eventually inherit
Europe and northwestern Asia, at least.
Through conquest, through marriage.
Cheaper victory, bide your time.
i.
So
Licinius thinks Daza will be his other long-term enemy, not because
Daza is any good, but because he's rich.
And hot-headed. Proven, back in 310 when he started calling himself Augustus,
campaigning against the Persians. While Licinius went against the Sarmatians.
j.
So
when Galerius dies in May 311, Daza and Licinius arm, but don't fight. Daza had
moved first, presenting Licinius with a quid pro quo.
k.
For Daza realizes he needs a stronger dynastic claim; being a nephew of Galerius
is no longer enough. Daza's daughter's betrothal to Candidianus, isn't enough.
l.
So
Daza also secretly
negotiated with Maxentius.
Perfect reason for alliance, in the name of Galerius' KIDS.
Recall, it took a whole year for Galerius
to die. So Daza allied with Max earlier,
not as Lactantius states in his Para 43. So
his Para 42
on Diocletian's death was retrospective
exposition. (Barnes
footnote 39: "Lactantius, Mort. Pers. 42, 3 f.: 'ita viginti
annorum felicissimus imperator
... in odium vitae deductus, postremo fame atque angore confectus est. Unus iam supererat de adversariis dei
<Maximinus>; cuius nunc exitum ruinamque subnectam'." If 'supererat ' references the OFFICE of Imperator, Barnes errs. Next, Lactantius' paras. 42 and 43 mix time
elements. Maxentius erected Daia's
statues AFTER he and Constantine went to war;
surely Maximian wasn't alive; he
opposed Daia. Para 44 is the
war with Maxentius; then
Constantine tears the statues down. Nor
would Diocletian object, as Maximian disgraced the Empire. Last, in Latin or Greek you switch time
elements back and forth to Explain Cause for a current reality, even in
the same sentence: a form of parallelism
which can't translate well, as exegetes struggling with Daniel 11, know.)
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Reconciliation
Hypothesis for Diocletian's Death Date in 316, cont.
m.
So Daza wants leverage with Licinius. So
he wants Valeria -- daughter of Diocletian, not merely Galerius' widow -- and the son of
Galerius, Candidianus, his future son-in-law.
And if Licinius proposed but Valeria said no; and if Licinius was already secretly engaged to Constantia, well -- then all
agree to Daza's demand.
n.
Since
Diocletian knows the secret match between Constantine and Licinius, he knows Galeria will be freed from Daza, eventually. He
wants to protect his wife, daughter and Candidianus, whom Galeria has come to
love; so the boy is like a grandson to
Diocletian. He knows eventually Daza will go down. So Diocletian probably counsels his daughter to play
along, don't worry honey you won't be there long, just keep being nice to
Daza but don't marry him.. plead the widow-in-mourning thing, just as you did
to Licinius. So, she does. And the meanwhile, acts as eyes and ears for
Diocletian.
o.
So in early summer 311, instead of fighting -- Licinius and Daza negotiate a split of
the territory; Daza is willing to take less, if he gets the daughter and
son. With Prisca, Diocletian's wife, as a
hostage. With visiting rights to Diocletian, of course. How secret this is from Constantine, well...
p.
So
Licinius thinks he hedges his bets in case his
own marriage to Constantia, won't work out. Then Licinius
can 'rescue' them from the likely-to-lose, Daza.
It's a royal hostage situation. No
wonder Valeria can refuse. The union between Licinius and Constantine is a secret, still; so Daza has
no reason to be threatened.
q.
So
in summer 311,
along with his 'share' of the territory, Prisca, Valeria, Candidianus
go with Daza for a very long visit. Get acquainted with the betrothed.
r.
Daza can then pledge loyalty to Maxentius, but plead secrecy: hey guy I can't send you troops, I've got
to keep up appearances, here.
s.
Now
it's autumn 312,
and after letting Maxentius create a cause de guerre so The
Senate Will Beg To Be Invaded, Constantine
plays the in hoc signo vicious game.
Then Maxentius
drowns, in hoc signo
traduces, 28
October 312 everyone
lovey-dovey, all hail SPQR and
now I'll tax you worse than Maxentius ever could.
t.
Now
ex-post-Roma in November
312, Valeria
needn't be coy. She refuses to marry Daza, as he's next to go.
She doesn't tell him that, of course.
But she needs to get back to Diocletian,
as Daza IS the next to go. Maybe she pleads leave based on Diocletian's health, lemme go to Daddy and chat
with him. Anything to get away. Daza
retorts, Your dowry belongs to me; go
to Daddy on your own. So, she tries.
He obstructs her. [Yet Valeria
could have reached Diocletian within six weeks, see post
and shipping
times; he'd pay whoever transported her, once she got there. If Daza
really chased her from place to place, he isn't after her money. He could legally keep her property, just SEND
her back. So he's not worried she'll
leave, even campaigns next in Armenia, with his own wife and kids! In short,
someone wanted her to play maybe-I'll-marry-you with Daza,
and she thereby acts as intelligence for Diocletian et alia.]
u.
So
now, it's February 313,
nuptials
announcement and okay-to-be-Christian Milan Edict twixt the happy new
brothers-in-law-to-be fighting with each other.
v.
Which
surprised
Daza, always the
last to know. He was fighting in
Armenia. So he rapidly mobilizes
to go against Licinius.
In winter. Daza thinks Well, I've got his progeny in my custody,
gotta defeat them all, then Valeria can't refuse, I'll be her only protector. Which explains why he's
mobilizing in winter.
w.
Diocletian
refused to attend the
wedding, as his wife, daughter and adopted grandson are under Daza.
Instead pleads Daza let them come to him. Daza refuses.
x.
So
Constantine and Licinius become suspicious. Surely Daza's not mobilizing ALONE,
right? So both brothers-in-law suspect secret support for Daza. But whose? Well, Constantine
can suspect Licinius and Diocletian. Licinius can suspect Constantine and Diocletian. No one imagines that
Daza acts alone. Hence they reprimand Diocletian, for refusing to attend.
(Postscript in 39, Aurelius Victor. Not to be read as cause of death.) Obviously,
Diocletian is alive and hopes to get his family
back.
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Reconciliation
Hypothesis for Diocletian's Death Date in 316, cont.
y.
Daza leaves -- late February, for he reaches
Byzantium by April; and on the
same day he attacks Licinius -- on the 30th, he
rescinds his edict against Christians. Prisca, Valeria, and Candidianus had escaped by then. From Syria.
Trying to get to Dalmatia. Probably they caught a boat from the
coast. From there to Thessaloniki is a standard
boat route. So from Thessaloniki, they
go northwest over land, to Diocletian.
That should take but six weeks.
Then again, they maybe go the same route as Daza's army, so maybe normal transport would have been used
up by his troops. Maybe they first detoured
south, to catch a boat not requisitioned for his troops. Still, they got there within two or three
months. [Lactantius says Valeria showed up at
Nicomedia aka Izmir in disguise. Then fled when Candidianus (with Daza)
was executed. So she must have gone to Diocletian first, then doubled back to follow the
army. Else she'd have no idea
where to go, and would lack the means.]
z.
So
313, war between Daza and Licinius; Daza, accompanied by
his original wife and kids all dying, by summer. Licinius then piously announces the Edict of
Milan, in
Nicomedia. [Notice how the wording of the Edict
contradicts Lactantius' previous paragraphs'
claim of a miraculous battle between Licinius
and Daia.
For the Edict announcement is after the victory, and still Licinius doesn't call either himself or Constantine, Christian.
So Lactantius' account is sheer bluster.
Gibbon wondered about the 15 months' being dated after the women escape,
as the Latin depicts, saying that if that were so, the date of
Lactantius' composition would have to be after the first civil war between
Licinius and Constantine. Yeah,
it was -- but not by Lactantius. Others
-- maybe students of his -- amended the account, later. You can tell, because the text suddenly
varies style from that horrible effusive nonsense, to just the facts. Compare, if you will, Chapter 50 with
the two chapters before and after. Then
compare to his Chapter
39. Contradictions and rhetorical
style shifts abound; someone's filling
in data, not paying attention to whether it FITS the original writing. What we moderns have, must be a composite
text of different editions, for you just know that Constantine would never
permit such effusive
praise of Licinius.]
aa.
Constantine doesn't do anything to help. Licinius
notices that. Maybe it's a trap, so
Constantine can more easily win, later!
Licinius had no son in summer 313 when he beat Daza. But in July 315, Constantia bore him a son. So Licinius murders all rival sons. [Lactantius' account of
Licinius' actions, is sheer garbage.
Lactantius had praised
Valeria for refusing Daia, then suddenly praises Licinius for
killing Valeria? And then still praises her
and her mother at death? Fishy,
huh. Aurelius
Victor's account is rather less flattering.]
bb. So now we come to the
crux of the matter. '15 months'.. begins WHEN? Lactantius doesn't
say. There are 15 months from the end of
313, when Licinius finishes fighting the
Persians, and his son's birth. There
are also 15+ months between his son's birth, and Constantine's December 316 ruling at Serdica (2nd 'Serdica' in that
link).
1.
Licinius was surprised by Daza's attack, having just made peace with him and divided
up new territory back in 311. So everyone's tired. They don't want to fight. Maxentius
and then Daza, forced the issue. The victory is a time for happiness, not
murder.
2. Diocletian wouldn't kill himself over accusations
he refused to attend a wedding that he himself had approved. They wouldn't assassinate him, either. They need his expertise. They need his family. (Again, post-mortem postscript in 39 Aurelius Victor should not be read as cause for
Diocletian's death. Suetonius writes the
same way.)
3. Between 313 and 315,
Licinius has every reason to make nice with all
potential heirs, because he has no son of his own.
He just finished fighting,
marrying; Constantine needs a rest, as does he. If Licinius had proposed to Valeria, he still might entertain
marrying her, too. Or at least,
befriending her. He needs her, now:
she's more mature than his wife, and remains an Augusta of the
realm. Why wouldn't he succor Candidianus and Severianus; Daza maybe forced them to go along -- to
keep Valeria compliant. Licinius is the hero, now. He didn't start that war.
4. Moreover, Licinius just acquired Daza's huge territory, so needs added legitimacy, to ensure
stability. The last thing he'd want, is
to murder potential allies. He could
create subkingdoms, instead. The
relatives know the territory. He
doesn't. He has no motive to want
uprisings, in his newly-won lands.
5. Constantine just got Europe and Africa; Licinius, all of Asia and a new bride. They jointly announced toleration and peace,
too. So there's no reason to claim Licinius immediately murdered anybody,
after he beat Daza.
So Lactantius' choppy account
here -- suddenly quite weird, you must admit -- is garbled gossip or invention.
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3rd eudokian+2nd epainon 3rd
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Reconciliation
Hypothesis for Diocletian's Death Date in 316, cont.
cc.
So
it's more likely all this went according to Diocletian's plan (at n). So the rest of 313+, is reconstruction, consolidation,
peace.
dd. That is, until 315.
Again, in July
of 315, Licinianus (Jr.) was born. Aurelius Victor's 41 [4]
relates that Crispus, Constantius,
and Licinius Jr. were born; and by the time the latter
was "twenty months old", they were all named cesares.
So now we have an interval of almost two years from July 315, to
the March 317 treaty between Licinius and Constantine. So let's account that
time.
ee.
315: Licinius has his OWN son, by
a Constantine. Maybe over the ensuing months, Constantia became unhappy with the competition
she'd surely feel from Valeria and her relatives. Maybe Licinius
became unhappy. Maybe this shift in
potential dynastic succession had everyone taking sides. For although both emperors had barbarian
incursions, the Eastern 'underbelly' of Licinius
was better protected. He had good
control of the trade routes. Access to
Asia and China, on which Europe depended.
So economically, he had a better chance of winning any ultimate
showdown. So could afford, to wait. Since he's nine years older than Constantine,
he'd be more inclined to relax and enjoy his first child, than to fight. There's still no motive for him to
suddenly murder rivals: because they AREN'T rivals. But allies.
ff.
So
what happened, to create a new war? The usual scholarship
puts their next war ending at either 314
or 317.
In between are the birth(s), the affair with Bassianus, who Constantine
appointed to take over Italy and Africa.
Also between, had to be the reunification of Diocletian with his family. Ancient
sources are alleged to conflict: hence the modern concern over which "3
December", Diocletian died. I propose there is no conflict in
the ancient sources, but in our reading of them.
gg. Barnes
says Constantine attacked Licinius at Cibalae on 8
October 316 because his own son was finally born
from Fausta, and he wanted to upstage the
earlier-born, Licinianus. [See here
for more of Barnes' contention. The date
sounds right, but the contention, wrong.
Constantine already had sons of higher right. Naturally, since Fausta was a daughter of
Maximian, Constantine would resuscitate the memory of her father, for the sake
of his new son.]
So let's think: Constantine
is the aggressor, technically. Zosimus
writes that AFTER they fight, they made a truce naming Licinius' son,
then TWENTY MONTHS OLD, a Caesar.
(See end of his para
20, Book 2 of New History. Page 139=85 of pdf here. Text is Greek and Latin. On the web, everyone copies from the same
wrong English translation, which says 'years' vs. Latin 'months'. But
tertullian.org corrected the
translation, here.) So: 20 months from July 315, is July 317 minus
four months, or March 317.
Constantine insisted on removing Valens. Note: Licinius didn't name his own son, Caesar.
So he wasn't planning a takeover.
Valens' appointment was reactive, defensive,
as Constantine was the aggressor.
So what happened
between 315 and 317, to justify sudden war? It can only be, that Diocletian DIED.
Until he died, his presence and mediation was sought (i.e., in the
nonsense with Maxentius
and Maximian,
attendance at the wedding with Constantia). So Diocletian
must die first. So if Constantine and Licinius make a truce after two battles on 1 March of 317 --
Diocletian probably died the previous
December, and was sick for a while, prior.
End
of Victor's para.39 says Diocletian was 68 when he died, 9 years retired. 68-9=59. End 316-9= end 307. Balances from Carnuntum, when Maximian was
told growing cabbages was happier, and Galerius got the Caesars he wanted, in exchange for recognizing Constantine. For until Carnuntum, the Tetrarchy wasn't stable. Diocletian, stabilized it. So then you can say, he truly retired.
Why Licinius became hostile to Valeria,
is conjecture. Maybe she caused
trouble. Maybe she was suspected
of causing trouble. Who knows. But she lost her protection, when her father
died. She and her mother. So maybe the 15 months,
is dated from Diocletian's death, not after Daza died. Which also
accounts for Licinius'
sudden anti-Christian edicts. Which accounts for
why he ordered execution for Valeria and Prisca, whether they 'wandered', or not. Note that Lactantius' writing is schizoid, so
you have to ask if the accounting of
Valeria, was really his. I bet
not: we all know that Church Father
writings were doctored. Time to stop
slavishly condemning, or praising them.