RE: Grateful for So Much: Daily Life in Preparation
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Hello there!
I have seen you on some PEPE posts and on tokenfaucet, nice to meet another member of the PEPE community. We are told that PEPE on Hive is all about Love and I think we can both support loving our fellow humans!
I wish you and your family a nice safe trip for the Sukkot pilgrimage festival.
I'm interested in the quotes you kindly provided for us in your post. I searched 2 or them but only found this post in the result. I'd like to learn more. Where might you point me, if you so desire, so that I can read further? I recognize some as Bible quotes but I'm familiar with slightly different wording than what you quoted.
Thanks and have a nice day! :)
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So glad to see support for PEPE and I'm grateful to share my blog with the tag. I appreciate your support and enthusiasm for that lovable PEPE.
We are excited about our trip, this will be our 11th year celebrating and our sixth time traveling for the event. Someday, our pilgrimage may involve an airplane to the Holy Land, but for now that's just a dream. If HIVE moons, that's what we'll be doing.
The quotes are from a document called "The Testimony of Yeshua" which is a document I have been translating and compiling since 2015. It's a combination of all four gospels (chronological) and acts, with additions from other ancient source documents. Once it is completed, I plan on publishing it in it's entirety on the blockchain. This is why it has slightly different wording in my quotes, since it is unique. I cannot claim it inerrant and it's certainly not a replacement for published bibles, but I find it edifying for my faith and perhaps others would find it edifying also.
The third quote in this post is from a document called "the Didache", a very early teaching recorded by the believers specifically written to those of the nations being grafted into the faith. The document records (what I believe) are some extra-gospel teachings of Yeshua of Nazareth directed towards those who are not from the culture and upbringing of Israel, describing the two ways: "the way of life" and "the way of death". It's a summary of the gospel teachings and could have been canonized into the bible.
Thank you for investigating and inquiring! I think the time is coming soon to publish. I can proofread and amend and rearrange for another eight years but at some point I have to declare it finished. I think it's time to publish.
I hope you do get to take that trip to the Holy Land! It would be unforgettable; a lifetime memory maker.
Thanks for all the excellent info on the quotes you shared! Translating and compiling must be a lot of work but I'm sure it is very satisfying. Nice to know you will soon publish it all on chain.
I bought a book last year by a professor right near me who taught at UNCC which is his translation of Genesis. It is interesting to see how he translated some interesting words and phrases.
In The Beginning ---> At the first
Firmament ---> Expanse / Skies
Anyway, again enjoy your trip and I look forward to seeing the document you plan to publish!
Thank you! I appreciate the incentive, God willing I will publish once I get back from the trip. Hebrew studies are fascinating and Genesis specifically is fascinating, one of my favorite topics is the firmament.
The root word of firmament in Hebrew is Resh, Qof, Yod, Ayin
RQYA in modern translations is often translated by scholars as "atmosphere" or "sky" or "expanse", but in ancient times the firmament was understood as firm or hard like "beaten metal".
The ancients believed in a solid ceiling over the earth, with literal water over on top and a physical Tabernacle and actual throne of God.
The ancients believed God literally "beat out" a ceiling for the earth with His hands and called it "Heaven" (Genesis 1:8). Which is why there is a "ladder to Heaven" (Genesis 28:12) and there are "windows of Heaven" (Malachi 3:10) and "doors of Heaven" (Psalms 78:23) and the Heavens "tremble" (Joel 2:10) and the Heavens "open" (Deuteronomy 28:12) and the Heavens "roll up like a scroll" (Isaiah 34:4), there's even an "ends of the Heavens" (Isaiah 13:5). All of these are referring to the Firmament (RQYA) which God called "Heaven".
On the first day of creation, there was only one Heaven, but on the second day, God divided it. Once God separated the waters above from the waters below, the barrier (firmament) created a space above us which we call "Heaven", then also the barrier which He made (the firmament), He called "Heaven", and the location of the Heavenly realm called the "Heaven of Heaven" (Deut 10:14) or "The Third Heaven". (2 Corinthians 12:2)
Prophetically, on the day of the LORD, "Heaven" (that is the firmament) will pass away (2 Peter 3:10) and vanish like smoke (Isaiah 51:6), and the sea (the waters above) will be no more (Revelation 21:1). Then the separation between God and man will be gone!
It's a fascinating subject, open for much discussion and debate between ancient religious/science understandings of the world and modern secular/science understandings of the world.
Yes, all interesting stuff! I am one who likes to hear and consider many different interpretations of things. I have heard of the "snow globe" idea that the ancients thought of cosmology as a disc covered by a thin but strong dome with waters above it. The dome was partly transparent and that is why the sky is blue - we're seeing the waters above.
I try not to get too bogged down in the details as I think there is some chance that many stories in the Bible are allegory. I figure if Jesus used parables to make points, and God and Jesus are the same in some way, then God may also have told parables / allegorical stories to those who wrote the Bible. So I'm looking for the moral of the story rather than being concerned about the historicity or scientific accuracy of things in the Bible.
But it's all totally open for discussion! Different folks come to their own conclusions. I don't know much, but the little I do know is that I don't know enough to close my mind to different points of view. :)
True, the Word of God uses many parables and examples, discerning what is actual and symbolic is important. The purpose of the Word is for right living. If something is believed or proven inaccurate recorded in the word, it doesn't change the accuracy of the Character of God and His Name and the morality He instructs. As Paul writes:
It wouldn't be surprising to me to discover that the word of God is accurate in reality, even when it is very different from our assumptions and conventional understanding.