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Wow, I really appreciated the sharing you all participated in tonight!
Remember how Paul..the same Paul who wrote Philemon..used the "S" word
in Philippians 3? In the original Greek he used the word "skubala,"
which your class Bible translates "rubbish," but the word is much close
to the English S-word. More on that word use here
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of course Christians will be left behind:
no one
reading the famous "one will be taken; the other left behind" 'rapture' passage..
(in context; and without everything you've ever heard that it said influencing what you hear)
will read it as Christians being taken/raptured.
It is the most obvious interpretation in the world that in this Scripture:
the Christians are left behind.
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Try it out! Follow the flow and logic; read text and context prayerfully and carefully.
There's a reason this passage was not spun this way in the early church (B.L.H.-"Before LaHaye")
the flood came and swept them all away, so too will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken and one will be left. Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
And Rossing:
Only by combining this passage together with First Thessalonians can a dispensationalist begin to piece together their notion of 'left behind'...But here's the problem with their use of this passage in Matthew: Dispensationalists make the leap of assuming that the person 'taken' in this passage is a born-again Christian who is taken up to heaven, while the person 'left' is an unbeliever who is left behind for judgement. This is a huge leap, since Jesus himself never specifies whether Christians should desire to be taken or left! In the overall context of Matthew's Gospel, the verbs 'taken' and 'left' (Greek paralambano and apheimi) can be either positive or negative.
In the verses immediately preceding this passage, Jesus says that his coming will be like the flood at the time of Noah, when people were 'swept away' in judgement. If being 'taken' is analogous to being 'swept away' in a flood, then it is not a positive fate. That is the argument of New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop N.T. Wright:
'It should be noted that being in this context means being taken in judgement.
There is no hint here of a , a sudden event that would remove individuals from terra firma...It is, rather, a matter of secret police coming in the night, or of enemies sweeping through a village or city and seizing all they can.'
(NT Wright, Jesus and The Victory of God, p. 366
If Wright is correct, this means that 'left behind,' is actually the desired fate of Christians, whereas being 'taken' would mean being carried off by forces of judgement like a death squad. For people living under Roman occupation, being taken away in such a way by secret police would probably be a constant fear....McGuire suggests that the 'Left Behind' books have it 'entirely backward.'. McGuire, like Wright, points out that when analyzed in the overall context of the gospel, the word 'taken' means being taken away in judgement, as in the story of Jesus' being 'taken' prisoner by soldiers in Matt 27:27. 'Taken' is not an image for salvation"
(Rossing, pp 178-179)
‘But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son,nor the Son');";but only the Father. For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so too will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken and one will be left. Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day at what hour');your Lord is coming. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour. '
-Matt. 24
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Click here for more on the shocking "Left Behind" Bible Study we did
U2 at Super Bowl:
The great shepherdette leader I filmed in Peru:
Check out the amazing story I hinted at that happened before this! Click below:
Check out the amazing story I hinted at that happened before this! Click below:
Girls Field trip
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KINGDOM:
The "core message of Jesus"?
The Kingdom (p 16, Kraybill)
KINGDOM:In light of the video above, and the Bible's use of the term,
- not realm, but reign
- not place , but person
- not race, but grace
- not just "then and there," but 'here and now" (Matt. 4:17, 6:10)
>>How does the Kingdom "come" from the "future"?:
Many Jews of Jesus' day (and actually, the Greeks) thought of the Kingdom of God as largely a future identity/reality/location.
So when Jesus, in Matthew 4:17 announces that he, as King, is ALREADY bringing in the Kingdom,
The Jews talked often about "this age" (earth/now) and "the age to come." (heaven/future).
"Age to come" was used in a way that it was virtually synonymous with "The Kingdom."
Scripture suggests that:
The "age to come" (the Kingdom)
has in large part already come (from the future/heaven)
into "this age"
(in the present/on the earth
by means of the earthy ministry of Jesus: King of the Kingdom.
Thus, Hebrews 6:4-8 offers that disciples ("tamidim") of Jesus have
"already (in this age) tasted the powers of the age to come."
In Jesus, in large part, the age to come has come.
The Future has visited the present,
Here are some articles that may help:
>>How does the Kingdom "come" from the " past"?:
In light of (and in spite of ) everything we just said there also WAS a sense in which the Jews believed that --in a limited but vital way--- the Kingdom had begun on earth.. at a specific Old Testament time and place... and worked "forwards" from there.Thus today's video field trip..
Today's video on The Exodus and the "Dance Party on the Beach" is on your Moodle this week episode 5 on this DVD).
The points to remember are how this was the seminal/foundational/formative microcosmic event of (perhaps all) Scripture, in that:
1)It presents a pattern and prototype of any deliverance from bondage/slavery; and every "way out" (Ex-Odus)
from an old way/world to a new way/world. We had some good discussion about "in-between times" in our lives that we recognized (maybe only in retrospect) as pivotal and formative. Crossing the sea is often meant to call to mind crossing a barrier (remember the Jordan River video from Week One) into a while new world, creation or order; from allegiance to forbidden gods to The One God. Jesus is seen in Matthew as the New Moses in that just as Moses led God's people out of bondage to an oppressive ruler/"king" (Pharoah) and an empire that infected them (Egypt), so Jesus leads God;s people out of spiritual bondage to an oppressive ruler/"king" (Herod) and an empire that infected them (Rome). This is a classic intertexting/hyperlinking/parallelism.
2)It is really the first time God's people are formed/forged into a community; they have "been through stuff together" and are inevitably bonded and changed through a corporate experience. Thus:
3)Also, remember (for the test) the Jewish tradition that the Kingdom of God functionally, and for all practical purposes began (or landed in a foundational way on earth) when God's people there on the beach danced and sang, "The Lord is reigning" ( Exodus 15:18 )...remembering that "reigning" could be translated "King" or "Reigner". Thus, God's Kingship "began" when God's people publicly recognized it after seeing God in action in dramatic way as King. Vander Laan: "The Kingdom begins when God acts"
...Exodus 15:18:
- "The Lord is reigning from this point onward."
- "The Lord is King from this point onward."
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The key place for Israel; the seminal event, the central memory in the Jewish mind in Jesus' day, was
The dance party on the beach.
The very place the Kingdom began.
As a 'beach-head," if you will.
I'm glad no one has built a taco stand there..
Here it is..
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Click here to hear the audio of Esther we listened to..
Remember to use the questions on page 24 and 26 of the backbone of your Esther paper..
Don't forget your symbol.sign...many do.
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Preparation Reading:
- Fee & Stuart ch 11 "The Psalms: Israel's Prayers and Ours" (entire)
- NOAB "Psalms" (pp. 773-775 introduction)
- Psalms 18, 30, 32, 33, 51, 80, 104, 113, 117, 118
- Exodus 25-31, 35-40<optional
- 1 Kings 5-8optional
- Ezekiel 8-10optional
- Matthew 21:12-17optional
- Luke 1:45-55optional
- NOAB "The Gospel According to John" (pp. 1870-1889)
- John 1-4
- Kraybill ch 3<skim
- Esther (review- with Literary and Contemporary World worksheets)
- The Serving Leaders, pp 32-71 (review)
- Complete “The Literary and Contemporary World” worksheets (attached to the syllabus). This worksheet and the worksheets for Week 4 of this module form the basis for the final paper. NOTE: WE DID ONE OF THESE IN CLASS< AND WILL DO THE OTHER ONE NEXT WEEK, THIS IN CLASS. FULL CREDIT IF YOU PARTICIPATE. YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO THIS AHEAD OF TIME
- Remember: Nouwen and Jenninsg response questions due (Delayed from last week)!
- Study for Terms Quiz (see syllabus for terms. Quiz is multiple choice, and only on the last 15 terms. ) OPEN BOOK AND NOTES, See below!
b)
Study for Quiz: The definitions to the following terms may be
found in the glossary in the back of the NOAB class Bible. There will only be 15 terms on the quiz,
taken from this list. You will be
provided a list of terms and asked to match them to a list of definitions. Each one is worth 2 points.<The only terms on quiz will be the last 15..starting with "Mosaic".
Quiz Terms:
Assyria
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Elohim
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Judah
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Pentecost
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Temple
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Babylonia
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Epistle
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Messiah
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Priest
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Torah
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Canaan
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Exile
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Mosaic
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Prophet
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Yahweh
(YHWH)
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Canon
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Galilee
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Motif
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Purim
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Cosmos
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Genre
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Mystery
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Rabbi
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Covenant
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Hermeneutics
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Palestine
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Second
Temple
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Diaspora
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Israel
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Passover
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Tanakh
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Definitions:
Assyria
A
Mesopotamian world power in the second and first millennia BCE. This Empire
conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE and exiled its people.
Babylonia
A
Mesopotamian world power. It often competed against Assyria, which it conquered
in 612 BCE. This Empire destroyed Jerusalem in 586 and was conquered by the
Persian King Cyrus the Great in 539.
Canaan
Name for the
region and inhabitants of the southern Levant (Palestine), prior to its
becoming “Israel.”
Canon
From the
Greek term for “measuring rod.” Any list
of writings deemed authoritative.
Cosmos
The created
world of order, stability, relative permanence; the opposite of chaos.
Covenant
A contract or
treaty; often used of the relationship between God and Israel
Diaspora
The
scattering of Jews from the promised land Israel, and hence any Jews living
outside Israel.
Elohim
Hebrew for
“gods” or “God.”
Epistle
From Greek epistole, letter.
Exile
The period
during the sixth century BCE when part of the population of Judea was taken
into captivity in Babylon.
Galilee
The northern
most geographical area of Israel
Genre
A form of
literature with particular characteristics.
Hermeneutics
The theory
and practice of Interpretation
Israel
The name for
the 12 tribes that the Tanakh says descended from the patriarch Jacob; a political designation for the nation and
people who inhabited this land.
Judah
The region in
southern Levant (Palestine) associated with the tribe of the same name; name
for the Southern Kingdom after the nation of Israel divided.
Messiah
Hebrew for
“anointed one.”
Mosaic
Having to do
with Moses and his teachings. The leader of the people of Israel out of bondage
in Egypt.
Motif
An image or
character type that recurs throughout a literary work
Mystery
In the New
Testament, a divine truth that is kept hidden or secret by God until the right
moment for it to be revealed.
Palestine
A name first
used by the fifth century BCE historian Herodotus for the area along the
eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Passover
The Jewish
festival that commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
Pentecost
Greek for
“fiftieth,” designating the Jewish Festival of Weeks, which came to be
associated with the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.
Priest
The official
set apart to preside at the worship in the temple.
Prophet
One who
serves as an instrument of communication between God and humans.
Purim
The festival
that commemorates the delivery of the Jews in Persia from destruction.
Origins described in Book of Esther.
Rabbi
A Jewish
religious leader who studies the Torah and its associate commentaries and
offers his/her own teaching based on that study. A term of respect.
Second temple
Refers to the
Jerusalem Temple from its rebuilding following the Babylonian Exile until it
was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E.
Tanakh
An acronym
created from the Hebrew words for the three canonical sections of the Hebrew
Bible: Torah, Neviim, and Kethuvim. In other words, a Jewish name for the Old Testament
Temple
The house or
palace of a god; a place of sacrificial worship.
Torah
Hebrew for
“instruction, teaching;” the first five books of the Tanakh.
Yahweh (YHWH)
The special
Israelite name for God, which was revealed to Moses.
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