An archive of brainout's vimeo video descriptions and playlists (to go along with the dumped videos in the event vimeo pulls them down with all of the playlists and text).
New uploads are ad hoc here in 2015, focusing on the meter proving Peter wrote in 2 Peter in late August or early September, 68 AD. The 2014 videos cover 1 Peter's meter style playing a 'song' on Ephesians 1:3-14, and how Jude knew that and made his text 'fit' that 'song'. To play these videos in order: channel . Sorting: click on 'Browse This Channel', then 'Videos'. Vids are many, so icons are color-coded by subtopic. So just bypass the 'color' if a subtopic doesn't interest you.
GIST: 1Peter1:1-12's metered Greek also creates a 'calendar' that interleaves with Paul's Eph1:3-14. So this 'petermeter' vimeo channel/playlist series is both a subset of, and continues solely in vimeo, Episode 5e17 RFG and following, from the 'Peter's Metered!' Youtube series ( http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1bv_xPIih3dGqw7tJEfz7LUh_mnSDc6q ). So the vimeo 'channel' (playlist) includes selected Peter's Metered! Youtube videos up to Episode 5e16 RFG. All later episodes, will be housed only within vimeo. The Youtube playlist covers related matters (like the 'song' Peter makes from interleaving his text with Paul).
Peter's Meter focus: future Roman history. Peter, like Paul, traces that future to Odovacer. The meter sets the doctrinal tone, of each letter.
When Paul died, Peter knew he'd soon be next; so he writes to folks whom Paul served. He begins 1Peter1:1-12 in meter, to validate his own letter as Divine, and to update Paul's metered timeline in Eph1:3-14. Since Paul's letter was cyclical with a 'blank' in the space where the recipient city would be placed (as most scholars know), Paul's meter didn't begin until verse 3. But Peter states the recipients; so like Moses in Psalm 90, Peter includes his byline as part of the dateline meter. Thus we know when Peter wrote; from the end of the letter, we know he wrote from Babylon, not Rome. Peter will soon die in Babylon.
The ancients all used METER as
For in the ancient world, though literacy was common, it was a pain to carry scrolls and parchments; so folks instead just memorized, using syllable counts to verify the material. Then, in their low-tech age, it was fun to play with the meter and the words, while walking to Ephesus or spinning flax, etc. This was their entertainment, as well as their learning method.
Sadly, modern 'scholarship' has been arguing whether Bible Hebrew/Greek even has meter, for over 300 years! So all this meaning is missed, and Bible interpretations -- especially re prophecy -- are fuzzy, contradictory, even puerile. For centuries. It's dishonest to be charitable, sorry.
How then to fix the problem? Well, it's best to just show the meter technique, so you can proof the above uses. For above all, the meter is a Time Accounting of Past or Future, so you know How To Live Today.
So this Petrine subset of the RFG series, focuses on Bible Writing Dates re the four books rolled out in the Year of the Four Emperors (Peter, Jude, Mark, Hebrews). Further, it shows how Peter's Meter plays on Paul's in Ephesians, re the new Church 490; for his letter is about 'living stones' and 'new priesthood'. 'To replace the 2nd Temple; which, in 68 AD, was under seige. Its 40-year 'credit' (for starting 40 years late in the Land), was almost spent.
Hence Peter's metrical theme is TEMPLE REBUILDING; here, playing off Ephesians 2 as well as Paul's meter in Eph1:3-14. So Peter prophetically syncopates his meter in antiphonal fashion, much like Psalm 90's structure -- doing that especially at syllable=year 350, when Moses cut off Psalm90 to signify Temple Rebuilding (prophesied 1st) In Danger! Very clever. No way a Greek reader could miss that, since people memorized Scripture using syllable counts.
Peter also uses a bifurcated timeline like Daniel did, in Daniel 9 (both Psalm 90 and Dan 9, are shown live in the Psalm 90 playlist, with Word docs you can dowload and test). Like Daniel, Peter does a year-by-year dual timeline that circles on key syllable=year segments in Paul (prophetically), and on the timeline forward from Peter's own writing (10 years after Paul wrote Ephesians 1:3-14).
So Peter's DATELINE use of the meter is patterned on Psalm 90's '84', which Isaiah 53 had cut into bookends of 42 each (played on in Matthew's genealogy 42s, and Luke's 77 to cover the Gentiles).
The Petrine 84, however, is also 84 'sevens' from the date God declared Christ's birthdate and the order to Rebuild The Temple to Zerubbabel, in Haggai 2; but simultaneously, Peter dates his writing to 84 years after Herod began Rebuilding the 2nd Temple (called by Jews today, '3rd Temple'), which entailed replacing the 2nd Temple with Herod's stonework (18 BC). So we definitively know when Peter wrote: late in 66 AD, aka 'our' 68 AD, which would become the 'Year of the Four Emperors'.
When Peter soon after dies, Jude will extensively play on 2 Peter 2, a few months later. His meter is trebled, as explained in the RFG series Episode 5d.
Enfin, the meter tells you how to interpret the words, so is vital to hermeneutics. It's all original research, sorry; but if you can count syllables and read Bible Greek in BibleWorks, also history books/articles by established Roman historians, you can understand what Peter means.
Long before we invented 'Anno Domini', Bible used it. This series examines NT Anno Domini Dateline Meter formulas, and how they are all precedented on the OT dating system from both Adam's Fall (not initial creation) and, as a countdown TO a planned Millennial start of 4200 after Adam's Fall. See Preface for orientation, LukeDatelineMeters.htm#Preface .
This video continues the survey with 1Peter through Jude, still showing how all the NT dateline meters, have the following in common:
In short, the meter formulas are predictable. So they are testable. Since often a chapter will have its own dateline meter (esp. in the OT or any other serial book, like Acts, Isaiah and Daniel), then you can more quickly figure out what formula to 'test'. The dateline meter will often finish within the first 1-3 verses of a chapter. If the last sevening is later, it's a plan-of-time passage, not merely a dateline (like Psalm 90, Daniel 9, Eph 1:3-14, 1Peter1:1-12, etc).
Video's Doc used (first two pages): LukeDatelineMeters.pdf or doc or htm. As usual, for doc or htm you need Bibleworks fonts, freely downloadable at bibleworks.com/fonts.html. The columns in the htm won't align, so the numbers for the meters look 'wavy'. I'll fix that in the future. The smaller the font size used in your browser, the more the numbers 'straighten'.
It will also be helpful to download the worksheet which plots all the numbers, so when you see me refer to Adamic years, you can tell that the BIBLE's use of those specific years, are actually from BIBLE's own dates; for the worksheet was created solely from, the Bible's dates: GeneYrs.xls.
Verses used to create that worksheet are in brainoutFAQ.htm#6a.
It's a lot of material, but given the importance of the accounting, it should be worth anyone's time to actually vet the material. Whether God wants you to do that, is a matter between you and Him. For once you see how bald these meters are, you know several important things:
1. YES we really do have the inerrant and infallible Word of God, because clearly these meters are deliberate so we know we have the real Words God Preserved (take THAT, you scurrilous KJVO people),
2. YES we can know EXACTLY when Bible books were written (take THAT, you scurrilious Bible debunkers),
3. YES we know EXACTLY WHAT BOOKS ARE SCRIPTURE (take THAT, you who claim we needed some dippy Council of Nicaea or other popish nonsense),
4. YES we know EXACTLY how long it was since Adam FELL, and YES the Bible does NOT say how old the earth is, as the issue isn't even relevant (take THAT, you young earthers and others who would divert the topic of Bible study to banalities),
5. YES we know BETTER how to actually INTERPRET the Bible books, since the DATE OF WRITING is turned into a complex relation-back and relation-forward CONCORDANCE with history and other Bible events, so we know the CONTEXT the WRITER INTENDS.
In short, a whole lot of wasted money on debates over the above five topics, can stop being wasted. Of course, since a lowly brainout simply counted syllables to find this, the finding will be disregarded, disputed, as if the credentials of the person FINDING something was relevant to what was FOUND. But what was FOUND, is in Scripture, so ANYONE, degreed or not, can FIND it.
File Name: MeterSurvey8-91Peter-Jude.avi 3/19/15, concatenating MeterSurvey8 and 9 of 3/18/15.
Turns out Peter's using the same 'I write you' style as Acts, with each CLAUSE's meter, whether sevened or not, being used in a kind of sotto-voce causal date linkage, with one of the clause numbers, being the year he writes. Aha. Sorry I missed this earlier, I'd not seen the style when first making the earlier videos in 2013.
Revised doc has a new title, 1PeterMeter.pdf or doc . You need Bibleworks fonts for the doc, freely downloadable here at bibleworks.com/fonts.html .
File Name: 1PetFix1234.avi 3/22/15.
Major change in Romanism, whether secular or 'Christian', during this period. Origen would come to court the Severans; Demetrius of Alexandria wanted to undercut Origen, so had Julius Africanus suddenly invent Peter being in Rome during the very years Jews were ousted from Rome by Claudius! By the end of the time Peter covers, persecution would begin. The chiliasts in Rome, who Demetrius and the Romans were trying to shut up, kept yelling it was the end of the world. And so it was, for THEM -- given the wry text God has Paul and Peter, use!
See how Paul wryly tracks this pivotal period. in vimeo.com/brainout/ggs11m . Peter wraps his text around Paul's, even as Mark wrapped his text around Matthew and Luke.
Two historical books help us understand this period. First, 'Bishop Lists', on the Origen fiasco. 10 'Bishop Lists' videos are now in GGS11t9. They begin with vimeo.com/brainout/ggs11t9a . Substitute the 'a' with 'b' etc. to go to successive videos on the book, through 'h'. Or better still, just get the book at Amazon. Links to it will be in the video descriptions.
Second, a book on Julia Domna, which I just bought (see my review in Amazon, amazon.com/dp/B000SIUW2K/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1AC6BCZ98965A&coliid=I69MWB70GJQAB). Levick explains that Domna's alleged long-royal (Syrian Arab-related) family, furnished troops to help besiege Jerusalem; some of that family married into the Herods (the Emesenes). Moreover, her family 'orientalized' Roman religion toward monotheism. Those are two of the main historical 'plotlines' in the book.
However, Levick's goal is to make Julia Domna look good, so she dismisses the allegations of Domna seeking political control, made by ancient Roman writers. You can kinda understand why she undertakes to defend Domna, when you read gossip rags treated as scholarship, like this one: books.google.com/books/about/The_Roman_Empresses.html?id=F0czAQAAMAAJ. So the truth must be somewhere in the middle of her position, and that book.
Herodian was alive during that time, as was Cassius Dio. Link to Herodian: livius.org/he-hg/herodian/hre000.html. Link to Cassius Dio: penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html. So-called 'Spartianus' was a fake 'author' in the Augustan History, which scholars universally treat critically. Whatever it says, must be vetted, as the HA (as scholars call it) was written during Constantine, so is not contemporary, and is full of inaccuracies. Not wholly, though.
No wonder Paul so stresses the women via his pregnancy keyword, musterion....
Download pdf on Peter's meter (only the Greek, all of 1Pet1:1-12): 1Peter1meter.pdf. The upgrade now sports links to the historical sections in Ephesians1REPARSED.htm, so you can investigate the university and contemporary Roman history/Church documents of that time, to see why Peter meters as he does.
Download the interleaved (Paul's Eph 1:3-14 with 1Peter1:1-12) song with its metered translation, here: PeterMeterSongWithTrans.pdf. It's only two pages, currently. Since 1Peter 1:1-12 is metered, the final version will be much longer.
To get the most out of this play on Paul, read Paul's meter, replete with Roman contemporary writings, university websites explaining the relevant historical references: Ephesians1REPARSED.doc (if you have Bibleworks fonts; or download them free at bibleworks.com/fonts.html). HTM version: Ephesians1REPARSED.htm. PDF version: Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf.
To see how the 49 years were missed, not 70 (as mistakenly claimed by Eusebius, who scholars have blindly followed ever since), see brainout.net/brainoutFAQ.htm#6a ; then search on 'Master Accountant', to read the accounting.
Since Isaiah and Daniel started this rhetorical style of meter-mapping-to-kings tradition, watch videos on Daniel 9, beginning here: vimeo.com/brainout/ps90-23 . It's faster and easier to instead download the Daniel document in that video's description and then read, to see his style. Both Paul and Peter talk back to Daniel 9 VIA its style -- which I call 'tagging' -- as Mary had done, in the Magnificat.
Still in 1 Peter 1:7. but side trip to Paul's parallel coverage of the Severan mothers, to flesh out why Paul (in Eph 1:9) and Peter, target this period. Related reference: luc.edu/roman-emperors/sevjulia.htm.
There are many other books you can read. Cambridge Ancient History on this topic, page 137ff: books.google.com/books?id=MNSyT_PuYVMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=Constantine%20306&f=true
Also, see 'Septimius Severus' by Anthony Birley: scribd.com/doc/158796842/Anthony-Birley-Septimius-Severus-Bookos-org or here: scribd.com/doc/121476706/Septimius-Severus. You can rent it on Kindle in Amazon.
The other is by Barbara Levick titled 'Julia Domna'. Her book isn't very helpful about the person, but is very helpful re parallel events in Roman history, with (like Birley), a huge bibliography (including his book, above). Both books are available on Kindle for rent or purchase.
Both books are less accepting of the HA account, compared to Dr. Benario, hence are mentioned here. This is a tangled period with (as usual) many scholars differing over how to read the voluminous and conflicting, data. Given Paul's stress, I'm siding toward Dr. Benario's summation, though it is still too vague.
For the chief characteristic of this period stressed in Scripture, is INVENTION.
A. Fake Pedigree, i.e., that Domna was royal, not merely priestly, and that Church was 'old', based on Peter -- newly invented during this period, knocking Paul off the previous Bishops Lists, as covered in GGS 11t9 re Bishops List book by Robert Lee Williams. Idea was to CONVERT the Severan mothers and their kids, to Christianity. But the version of 'Christianity' sold to them, is nothing like the Bible.
B. Fake generation, i.e., the claim that Elagabal and Severus Alexander, were children of incest with Caracalla. Of course, the Church parallel was just cited.
Hence Paul's Ephesians 1:9 anaphoric stress is on
Peter thus wraps to Paul, to add the following satirical keywords:
Please feel free to correct or even lambast me, if you choose.
Download pdf on Peter's meter (only the Greek, all of 1Pet1:1-12): 1Peter1meter.pdf. The upgrade now sports LINKS to the historical sections in Ephesians1REPARSED.htm, so you can investigate the university and contemporary Roman history/Church documents of that time, to see why Peter meters as he does.
Download the interleaved (Paul's Eph 1:3-14 with 1Peter1:1-12) song with its metered translation, here: PeterMeterSongWithTrans.pdf. It's only two pages, currently. Since 1Peter 1:1-12 is metered, the final version will be much longer.
To get the most out of this play on Paul, read Paul's meter, replete with Roman contemporary writings, university websites explaining the relevant historical references: Ephesians1REPARSED.doc (if you have Bibleworks fonts; or download them free at bibleworks.com/fonts.html). HTM version: Ephesians1REPARSED.htm. PDF version: Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf.
File Name: RFG5e21b, 12/2/13.
Jude Part 6 is subdivided into two parts: this one is a better explanation of 2 Peter's meter versus the prior video, showing how he actually uses ADAMIC YEAR NUMBERS in his meter. Which pattern, Jude tags PER CLAUSE. But Jude doesn't use Adamic year numbers; yet, he expects you to know Peter did, to make puns on Peter's formulas, which Jude actually duplicates. To see Part 6b, click here: vimeo.com/brainout/jude6b
Again, this is clear evidence that the meter is deliberate. I couldn't make this up even if I wanted to. Heck, I didn't even understand it, until redoing the math several times! So if anyone claims the Bible is corrupted or we don't have the original words the writers wrote, or that Bible was written much later.. guess again! The naysayers always prove themselves incompetent, for even a dippy 'brainout' can count syllables and see the provably-Divine, pattern!
Doc Links: if you have Bibleworks fonts (freely downloadable at bibleworks.com/fonts.html) you can substitute 'pdf' with 'doc' and edit the (MS Word) docs.
2 Peter: EXPLANATION REVISED, 2PeterMeterR2.pdf. The doc still has the old title of 2PeterMeter.doc, but has all the latest revisions, and is the 'original' from which the pdf was made. Text after page 1 still needs more editing for consistency.
Jude: Jude1-3DatelineMeter.pdf. Text after page 2 needs to be edited.
File Name: JudePart6Aon2Peter.avi, 3/17/15.
This Part 6b 'answers' the meter question, 'when was Jude written?' You'll need to first watch Part 6a to see 2 Peter's meter, which Jude apes: vimeo.com/brainout/jude6a . Else, the 'answer'here, won't make much sense.
Since this book is so misused by the denominations (ALL of them), the meter is of unusual hermeneutical value. Time we got back to the BIBLE and stopped treating it like a political football.
Doc link: Jude1-3DatelineMeter.pdf or 'doc', if you have Bibleworks fonts, freely downloadable here: bibleworks.com/fonts.html. Text after page 2 still needs editing for consistency.
For 2 Peter: EXPLANATION REVISED, 2PeterMeterR2.pdf. The doc still has the old title of 2PeterMeter.doc, but has all the latest revisions, and is the 'original' from which the pdf was made. Text after page 1 still needs editing for consistency.
File Name: JudePart6B.avi, redone 3/17/15
