Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Isaiah 10:18


Copyright Ó 2013 J. Neely
Isaiah 10:18ues

18 And shall consume [kalah] the glory [kabowd] of his forest, [ya`ar] and of his fruitful field, [karmel] both soul [nephesh] and body: [basar] and they shall be as when a standardbearer [nacac] fainteth. [macac] KJV-Interlinear

18 And He will destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body; And it will be as when a sick man wastes away. NASB

Forest and fruitful field, refers to both wild land and cultivated fields.

Soul and body refers to people in particular.

Standard bearer, ‘nacac,’ a sick man, is a reference to the symbols of the nation, or what is stands for and in this case it is a sick man.

The context is still the destruction of Assyria because of their evil and because of their crossing the line of Gods justice.

Back in Isaiah’s day, when Assyria was destroyed it was pretty well whipped by the Babylonians, but not to the degree as indicated in these verses.

These verses as with most of the book of Isaiah, are in reference to the final days of human history.

The picture painted by Isaiah is one of the promise of the Messiah, His sacrifice, His resurrection, His defeat of evil, and His establishment of His Kingdom on the earth.

The only thing that is left out is the existence of our Church Age, which interrupted the Age of Israel dispensation, and will not close until our current dispensation is completed.  Then the Age of Israel will resume, as noted by Daniels seventieth week prophecy, or the final seven years of the Age of Israel also known as the Tribulation.

Those final seven years are the subject time frame of these verses, which depict the oppression of Israel as well as the destruction of the lands around Israel.

Assyria, which is the land or lands to the north of Israel, is going to be totally destroyed.  The lands both cultivated and wild, are not the target, but the people are.  And while the people are the target for destruction, so also, all of the lands will suffer total destruction as well.

The foreign nations from Israel are depicted as sick.

Whatever their glory may be portrayed as, it is not what people think.  It is the sick nature of a nation that is their glory and that is a sad state of affairs for the world.

The faint fainting is the picture of a people that are totally exhausted, such that the exhausted people cannot stand, but fall flat on their face never to rise again.

A person becomes exhausted when there is a repetition of endless pressures and burdens placed upon them.  And when the Tribulation begins, the trials and judgments will be repetitive, and increasing in power throughout the entire period of the Tribulation.  Not to mention the pressures placed on the people from their continuing onslaught attempts against Israel.  They will try and try and try to destroy Israel, but their attempts will fail when it is all said and done.

And so our lesson for today is that when you fight against truth, in whatever form you take your fight, you will only exhaust yourself and you will eventually fail.  That is your only destiny.

You can reject the idea of God altogether, you can reject the role of Christ, you can reject the application of Gods plan to your life or to anything else, you can reject the application of establishment principles in life as you think they apply or don’t apply to you.  You can fight authority.  You can resist your role in your soul, in your family, in your relationships, in anything.  You can be stubborn until everything freezes.  And your attitude will gain you what?


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Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Psalm 22:28  – Who is sovereign


Monday, April 29, 2013

Isaiah 10:17


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Isaiah 10:17ues

17 And the light ['owr] of Israel [Yisra'el] shall be for a fire, ['esh] and his Holy One [qadowsh] for a flame: [lehabah] and it shall burn [ba`ar] and devour ['akal] his thorns [shayith] and his briers [shamiyr] in one ['echad] day; [yowm] KJV-Interlinear

17 And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame, And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day. NASB

The God of Israel, who we know as Jesus Christ, who was back then the promised Messiah, the Son of God, who walked in the Garden with Adam, who talked with Abraham, who led the Israelites out of Egypt, who appointed David, who was born Jesus and went to the Cross to provide salvation for all of mankind.  Who is the ruler, the sovereign of all that is, who controls history, who gives life and takes life in accordance with the divine plan.

And so, as Israel will be destroyed by these words, and which was destroyed in due course at the hand of Assyria.

That same God, will destroy Assyria as completely and thoroughly, and even more so, than they destroyed Israel.

God is a fire.  God is a flame.  The fire is the burning light that provides warmth and heat and light by which to see and understand life.  The flame is that same fire that can devour and destroy.

As Israel will be and was destroyed and absorbed into the conquering nations around it, but will survive throughout the ages until the Second Advent, it will not be so for Assyria.  Once Assyria is destroyed, it will fade into oblivion and history never to rise again.

And on a single day, at the Second Advent, and this is a literal single day for that future event, then Jesus Christ will destroy not only the region to the north of Israel, but all of the world as evil will be defeated and obliterated, making way for the Kingdom of God here on the earth, which we call the Millennium.

Back in Isaiah’s day, Assyria fell, but not in the space of a day, but over the course of many battles and years.

To devour the thorns and briers, means to utterly destroy the country.  Not even the weeds will survive.  That means total and complete destruction.  All evil, all peoples in the invading forces, and in opposition toward God, who are alive at the Second Advent, will be destroyed.  At the Second Advent there will not be even a single evil survivor.

During the seven years of the Tribulation, the entire population of the world, which may be in the many billions of people by that time (we are over seven billion now), will be totally reduced to a very, very small number.  Perhaps only a few hundred or a few thousand believers that will survive to the end of the Tribulation.


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Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Psalm 22:28  – Who is sovereign


Sunday, April 28, 2013

Psalm 22:29


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Psalm 22:29

29 All they that be fat [dashen] upon earth ['erets] shall eat ['akal] and worship: [shachah] all they that go down [yarad] to the dust [`aphar] shall bow [kara`] before [paniym] him: and none can keep alive [chayah] his own soul. [nephesh] KJV-Interlinear

29 All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship, All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep his soul alive. NASB

Jesus Christ is hanging on the cross when these words are spoken or thought by Him. Nearly everyone is making fun of Him.  All are challenging Him to bring Himself down, to save Himself, to jump off and destroy their enemies, the Romans as they see it.

Mocking, spitting, trying to intimidate, trying to get Jesus to commit a sin by being resentful, by getting angry over their comments and attitudes and such.

And yet Jesus did not commit a sin but instead took their sins upon Himself and paid the price, so that all people, even those who were making fun of him, could have the opportunity of being saved from the Lake of Fire for all of eternity.

While now all were looking at Jesus with disgust and repugnance and revulsion, there will come a time when all people, without exception, will look to Christ in awe and worship Him with increasing gratitude and humility.

All that are fat, is the expression of prosperity, or wealth, or people that have had success throughout or during their life.

All that go down to the dust, is the expression of those who have had a more difficult life, those who are in poverty, those who are taken advantage of, those who have been the target of prejudice, those who work and work and never get ahead.

These two categories of people, account for everyone who has or ever will live.

And finally, those who cannot keep alive their own soul.  This expression has a dual purpose.  There are those in the world who are old or injured or sick, and death is their next event of which they cannot avoid.  But also, this applies to every human being throughout history. 

No one can avoid death.  No one has the power to turn life on or to turn life off.  Power over the soul is not something that man has or ever will have.  God alone gives life.  God alone takes life away.

Even at the moment of birth, the life of the fetus hangs in the balance of being born alive or of being still born never having known life.  God alone breathes in the spark of life, ‘neshamah.’  God exhales life and man inhales life.

God decides life, not man.

Man who mocks Jesus, man who disregards Jesus, man who is indifferent toward his greater aspect of life, his spiritual life, has phenomenal arrogance in his attitude.  Man cannot control his own life and yet he ridicules God who gives man everything that he has or ever will have.

All people have things. Some have more, most have less.  All receive their possessions and life from God.  No one is self-made.  All are what they are because of Gods grace.

To presume that you are elite or somehow more than you are, is pure arrogance.

To complain because you do not have more, or that you should deserve more, is pure arrogance.

God deals with you in accordance with exactly what you need in life.  God will not change.  You must change.


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Friday – Daily Bible Study – Galatians 2:12 – What is the double standard
Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Psalm 22:28  – Who is sovereign


Saturday, April 27, 2013

Psalm 22:28


Copyright Ó 2013 J. Neely
Psalm 22:28

28 For the kingdom [maluwkah] is the LORD'S: [Yahovah] and he is the governor [mashal] among the nations. [gowy] KJV-Interlinear

28 For the kingdom is the Lord's, And He rules over the nations. NASB

For even though Jesus was hanging on the cross at that time, these words stood from eternity past, to the time of Davids writing, to the time of the actual event of the cross.

The very one who was being punished, who was being mocked, who was being treated as though he were scum, was in fact the ruler of all that is.

God rules the nations.  Jesus Christ controls history. Jesus Christ is God and the sovereign ruler over all that exists and beyond.

As God, He is not confined by time or space.  He transcends all that is and probably beyond even that.  Something that we will likely never be able to comprehend.

Throughout history, God has overridden all others.  Satan has tried to establish his own kingdom on many occasions, but all human empires have failed.  All angelic kingdoms, if there were any, have failed as well.

God will establish a Kingdom on this earth while man still has some semblance of history, but eventually even that will receive a rebellion of sorts as man will still reject Christ, even when He is on His throne here on the earth.  That will be the Millennium.

And herein is stated that God has the inherent right and the right from eternity past, to rule all nations.

This right has existed since eternity past, when God was the only person in existence.  He created all life, and all that is, including the universe as we have it now, and He has handed rulership down to man, who lost it to Satan, who has literally destroyed any semblance of rightful authority.

And Christ will one day, take back what all others have ruined, and will set it again in truth, righteousness and justice.


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Thursday – Daily Bible Study – Galatians 2:11  –  Who was condemned and why, what was lacking
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Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Psalm 22:26  – What are the two contrasts


Friday, April 26, 2013

Galatians 2:12


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Galatians 2:12

12 For [gar] before [pro] that certain [tis] came [erchomai] from [apo] James, [Iakobos] he did eat [sunesthio] with [meta] the Gentiles: [ethnos] but [de] when [hote] they were come, [erchomai] he withdrew [hupostello] and [kai] separated [aphorizo] himself, [heautou] fearing [phobeo] them which were of [ek] the circumcision. [peritome] KJV-Interlinear

12 For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. NASB

And here is the double standard which began with how James had been conducting himself, and for which Paul reprimanded both him and Peter for their behavior and inconsistent application of doctrine.

Doctrine is one standard and it is to be applied to all in the same manner.

There are not two standards, one for gentiles and one for Jews.

Circumcision was something that God commanded of Abraham, who was a grown man, and yet the application of circumcision was continued down through the generations and applied to infants, not to adults.

It was a teaching aid, to portray faith.

The infant certainly had no knowledge or understanding of God or salvation, but the adults that circumcised the child would have knowledge of God and salvation, and why they were performing this circumcision. The child while growing up, would likewise have a perpetual and personal reminder of faith every time he urinated.

And that was the intent of teaching aids, which was to teach principles of doctrine.  The sacrifices and feasts were teaching aids that taught principles of doctrine from the work of salvation, to confession and fellowship, to spiritual growth and a relationship with the one unique person of the universe.

This all separated Abraham and Hebrews alike, from the rest of the pagan world and their false gods and superstitions.

Faith was the key, not a surgical procedure.

Knowledge of doctrine and spiritual growth are also the important keys of the spiritual life, not ones works or intentions or traditions or cultural practices.

When culture becomes a source of embarrassment, especially when you associate with non-cultural folks, then the priorities and principles are lost.

James had associated with gentiles, the uncircumcised, but when Jewish folks, the circumcised, came along, then James would separate himself  in an aloof sort of embarrassment not wanting to be seen with the gentiles, or even associate with them in public.  And in this, James and others most certainly, were wrong in their behavior and somewhat hypocritical.


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Wednesday – Daily Bible Study – Isaiah 10:16  – What is the worst evil, what is the result
Thursday – Daily Bible Study – Galatians 2:11  –  Who was condemned and why, what was lacking
Friday – Daily Bible Study – Galatians 2:10 – Who was to be remembered and why
Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Psalm 22:26  – What are the two contrasts


Thursday, April 25, 2013

Galatians 2:11


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Galatians 2:11

11 But [de] when [hote] Peter [Petros] was come [erchomai] to [eis] Antioch, [Antiocheia] I withstood [anthistemi] him [autos] to [kata] the face, [prosopon] because [hoti] he was [en] to be blamed. [kataginosko]KJV-Interlinear

11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. NASB

The Galatians were being intimidated with false beliefs which tried to incorporate circumcision into the salvation principle.

When Peter and James had both been there in prior times and on prior trips, they met with and dined with the gentiles as fellow Christians.

But when Jewish folks came around, they withdrew from the gentiles as though they were embarrassed by their association with them.

This causes certain unrest among the Galatians and uncertainty as to their own spiritual beliefs and understanding.  Those trips were from many years prior.

And now Paul who is now in and among the Gentile believers, tells then straight out that he will not back down in some hypocritical form as did James and Peter, when Jewish folks come around.

So in this setting, Paul reassures the Galatians, while at the same time reprimands Peter and James for their double standard when with either gentile or Jewish believers.

This tells us that even in those early times, which covered a couple of decades, that Peter still exercised some decree of embarrassment while being associated with gentiles, when in view of Jewish folks.

Peter denied the Lord three times when Jesus was arrested, and now many years later he still demonstrates some degree of embarrassment and not a very strong adherence toward Christian principle.  Tradition was still controlling his soul, as it were.

Remember that when Paul was first contacted by Jesus, on that road to Damascus, he went to learn for three years and then was away from Judea for another fourteen years before his well known travels and writing began.  This meeting now with Peter was then quite some time after the events of the cross.

By then, Peter and especially James who were viewed as pillars of that early church, should have known better, but still had their weaknesses, obviously.

Paul stood firm in the truth.  They vacillated in their beliefs.

Most folks consider the apostles as all being unmovable pillars in Christianity, but as we can seem, they had their flaws.

Every Christian has flaws and even though we all have varying degrees of knowledge and faith, we all are still exposed to flaws and failures.  We can all stumble.

But the very best way to avoid stumbling is to glue yourself to a daily bible study and stay glued for the rest of your life.

No matter who you are, and no matter who you think you are, you will never know it all even in a thousand lifetimes of study.  So make the best of this one single life that God has given you, and learn as much as you possibly can.

If you cannot learn it all in several lifetimes, then you cannot afford to waste time in this one life which is all that you have.

And once you learn doctrine, then expect that God will test your faith. Problems will come along in your life and that is when your true faith and stability come out. 

Throughout history, people are tested in many ways.  Often times those tests can go on for years or even decades and under the most dire of circumstances.  This then is your test. 

Where is your breaking point?  It is a day of hardship, a month, a year, a decade?

What is your breaking point, a broken finger nail, a lost job, a lost family, a death, a handicap, simply the unknowns of tomorrow?

The circumstances of your life are irrelevant.  What is relevant, is your knowledge of doctrine and your application of doctrine to your life.  That application, builds up faith and faith is the muscle and strength for your endurance against any hardship or challenge from life.

And it all begins with your daily study.  That is the only mechanism for your learning doctrine. Do not diminish it.  Do not mock it.  Do not waste your learning opportunities.



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Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Psalm 22:26  – What are the two contrasts


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Isaiah 10:16


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Isaiah 10:16ues

16 Therefore shall the Lord, ['adown] the Lord ['Adonay] [Yahovah] of hosts, [tsaba'] send [shalach] among his fat ones [mashman] leanness; [razown] and under his glory [kabowd] he shall kindle [yaqad] a burning [yaqowd] like the burning of a fire. ['esh]  KJV-Interlinear

16 Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame. NASB


The Lord, ‘Adonay,’ refers to the sovereign, the controller, the Lord, the master, the authority.

Lord, ‘Adonay Yahovah,’ refers to the proper name of the Lord, ‘Adonay,’ then combined with ‘Yahovah,’ meaning the self-existent one, eternal, the name given the second person of the trinity, also designated as the Son of God.

Therefore, the unique God of the universe and beyond, who is the sovereign authority over all that exists and beyond, shall send onto Assyria, a leanness, ‘razown,’ a thinness, reduced in vigor and reduced in strength.  Assyria fell to its own luxury and fatness of wealth.  They grew lazy of mind as well as lazy of body. 

Anyone, no matter how courageous or strong, will fall when they lack doctrine and truth in their soul.

Only Bible doctrine provides the basis and foundation for contentment in life regardless of ones circumstances.

Things, material things never create contentment in ones life.  Only the content of ones soul can bring contentment into ones life and existence.  Things are external.  Only the soul is the integral part of your essence and existence.  Therefore you have to have content inside of you that will bring contentment inside of you.

God is the sovereign over all that is.  Assyria thought that it was sovereign over its own existence and destiny.  Not so.

And God will bring a burning fire.  And this is the burning of invasion. 

When Assyria invaded they burned and stole and killed and so forth.

When the time comes, another, Babylon, will bring the same ingredients to Assyria.  They will be invaded and they will see destruction.  And as they say, what goes around, comes around. And that certainly applies to evil in every respect.  What evil you do will come back on you.

The very worst kind of evil is indifference toward ones own spiritual life.  You sow nothing , and you get nothing.  And that nothing lasts forever.