BIBLE READING – Sep 21

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– Begin of daily reading for Sep 21 – Day 265

NEW TESTAMENT

13 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

² I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare [anyone]:

³ Since ye (you) seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

⁴ For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth (lives) by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

⁵ Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves (Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers). Know ye not your own selves (Do you not know yourselves), how that Jesus Christ (Yahusha Mashiach) is in you, except ye be reprobates (unless you fail the test [and are rejected])?

⁶ But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates (But I hope you will acknowledge that we do not fail the test nor are we to be rejected).

⁷ Now I pray to God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah) that ye (you) do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye (you) should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates (sinner).

⁸ For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

⁹ For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye (you) are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath (Aḏon has) given me to edification, and not to destruction.

Paul’s Final Greetings

¹¹ Finally, brethren (fellow believers), farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah) of love and peace shall be with you.

¹² Greet one another with an holy kiss.

¹³ All the saints salute you (All Yahuah’s people greet you).

¹⁴ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ (Aḏon Yahusha Mashiach), and the love of God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah), and the communion of the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit), be with you all. Amen.

OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 7
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Wisdom for Life

7 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

² It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

³ Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance (face) the heart is made better.

⁴ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth (pleasure).

⁵ It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

⁶ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

(NOTE: vanity (noun) = futility, pride, meaningless, conceitedness, self-conceit, narcissism, self-love, uselessness, pointlessness, worthlessness, purposelessness; excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements)

⁷ Surely oppression maketh (makes) a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth (destroys) the heart.

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

⁹ Be not hasty (quick) in thy (your) spirit to be angry: for anger resteth (rests) in the bosom of fools.

¹⁰ Say not thou (you), What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost  not (you do not) enquire wisely concerning this.

¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

¹² For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth (gives) life to them that have it.

¹³ Consider the work of God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah): for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked (He has bent)?

¹⁴ In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah) also hath (has) set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

The Limits of Human Wisdom

¹⁵ All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth (perishes) in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth (prolongs) his life in his wickedness.

¹⁶ Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself (yourself) over wise: why shouldest thou (should you) destroy thyself (yourself)?

¹⁷ Be not over much wicked, neither be thou (you) foolish: why shouldest thou (should you) die before thy (your) time?

¹⁸ It is good that thou shouldest (you should) take hold of this; yea (yea), also from this withdraw not thine (your) hand: for he that feareth (fears) God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah) shall come forth of them all.

¹⁹ Wisdom strengtheneth (strengthens) the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

²⁰ For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth (does) good, and sinneth (sins) not.

²¹ Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou (you) hear thy (your) servant curse thee (you):

(AMP Bible: Also, do not take seriously everything that is said, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you.)

²² For oftentimes also thine (your) own heart knoweth (knows) that thou thyself (you yourself) likewise hast (have) cursed others.

²³ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

²⁴ That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

²⁵ I applied mine (my) heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly (foolishness), even of foolishness and madness:

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth (pleases) God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah) shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

²⁷ Behold, this have I found, saith (says) the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

²⁸ Which yet my soul seeketh (seeks), but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

²⁹ Lo (look), this only have I found, that God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah) hath (has) made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Ecclesiastes 8
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The Limits of Human Wisdom (continuation)

8 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth (knows) the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh (makes) his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

Obedience to the King

² I counsel thee (I advise you) to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah).

³ Be not hasty (in a hurry) to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth (does) whatsoever pleaseth (pleases) him.

⁴ Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou (What are you doing)?

⁵ Whoso keepeth (keeps) the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth (discerns) both time and judgment.

⁶ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

⁷ For he knoweth (knows) not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

⁸ There is no man that hath (has) power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath (has)  he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

⁹ All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth (rules) over another to his own hurt.

The Wicked and the Righteous

¹⁰ And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

¹¹ Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

¹² Though a sinner do evil an (a) hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah), which fear before him:

¹³ But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth (fears) not before God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah).

¹⁴ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth (happens) according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth (happens) according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

¹⁵ Then I commended mirth (praise pleasure), because a man hath (has) no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide (remain) with him of his labour the days of his life, which God (Aluahim  / Elohim; Yahuah) giveth (gives) him under the sun.

¹⁶ When I applied mine (my) heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth (sees) sleep with his eyes:)

¹⁷ Then I beheld (saw) all the work of God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah), that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea (yes) farther (greater distance); though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 9
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Death Comes to All

9 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah): no man knoweth (knows) either love or hatred by all that is before them.

² All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth (sacrifices), and to him that sacrificeth (sacrifices) not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth (swears), as he that feareth (fears) an oath.

³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea (yes), also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

⁴ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁵ For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

⁶ Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

⁷ Go thy (your) way, eat thy (your) bread with joy, and drink thy (your) wine with a merry heart; for God (Aluahim / Elohim; Yahuah) now accepteth thy (accepts your) works.

⁸ Let thy (your) garments be always white; and let thy (your) head lack no ointment.

⁹ Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest (you love) all the days of the life of thy (your) vanity, which he hath (has) given thee under the sun, all the days of thy (your) vanity: for that is thy (your) portion in this life, and in thy (your) labour which thou takest (you take) under the sun.

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy (your) hand findeth (finds) to do, do it with thy (your) might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest (the place of the dead) where you are going).

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift (hasty), nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth (happens) to them all.

¹² For man also knoweth (knows) not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net (trap), and as the birds that are caught in the snare (trap); so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth (falls) suddenly upon them.

Thoughts on Wisdom and Folly

¹³ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

¹⁴ There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged (surrounded) it, and built great bulwarks (defensive walls) against it:

¹⁵ Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

¹⁶ Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised (rejected), and his words are not heard.

¹⁷ The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth (rules) among fools.

¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth (destroys) much good.

– End of daily reading for Sep 21 – Day 265

> COMMENCEMENT OF A NEW BOOK (New Testament): Nil

BOOK OVERVIEW (New Testament): 2 Corinthians (13 Chapters) (Original language: Greek)

Timeline: Around A.D. 55

Author: The apostle Paul.

Objective / Purpose: The Apostle Paul wrote this book to encourage the believers at Corinth and to settle their differences and fortify their unity.

Audience / Attendees / Spectators / Listeners: The believers in the church at Corinth.

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DIAGRAMS

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FOOTNOTES

Aḏon (title) meaning in the Bible

(NOTE: Aḏon (title) = אֲדוֹן (H113) = Lord / master / owner)

Adonai / Adonay (title) meaning in the Bible

(NOTE: Adonai / Adonay (title) = אֲדֹנָי (H136) – Pronunciation: ah-doe-NIGH = [My] Lord / Master)

Amen (adverb) meaning in the Bible

(NOTE: Amen (adverb) = אָמֵן (H543. Amen) An Abrahamic declaration of affirmation which is first found in the Hebrew Bible. It means truly/ verily.)

Elohim / Aluahim (noun) meaning in the Bible

(NOTE: Elohim / Aluahim (noun) = אֱלהִים (H430) God, gods, divine beings, judges)

shalom (interjection) meaning in the Bible

(NOTE:  shalom (interjection) = שָׁלוֹם (H7965) = Peace, completeness, welfare, well-being, safety, prosperity. sed as a traditional Jewish greeting or farewell)

vanity (noun) meaning in the Bible

(NOTE: vanity (noun) = futility, pride, meaningless, conceitedness, self-conceit, narcissism, self-love, uselessness, pointlessness, worthlessness, purposelessness; excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements)

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THE PROPER HEBREW NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR

Isaiah 52:6 King James Version (KJV)
“Therefore MY PEOPLE SHALL KNOW MY NAME: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth (He who does) speak: behold, it is I.”

The word ‘God’ is a noun. It is not God’s actual name.

EXAMPLE: “He is my father. He drives me to school every morning. His name is Johnny Lim.”

EXPLAINED: The word ‘father’ here is a noun. It is not the actual / proper name. ‘Johnny Lim’ is the actual / proper name.

QUESTION: What is God’s actual / proper name?

ANSWER: God’s actual name is as follows:-

YHWH meaning in the Bible

(NOTE: YHWH (proper noun) = 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 the proper name of the God of Israel. יְהוָֹה (H3068)  in tetragrammaton: יְהוָֹה (H3068) יְ (yod) ה (he) וָֹ (uau / waw) ה (he)

In Hebrew text:-

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH in Ancient Hebrew alphabets) 

          OR

יהוה (YHWH in Modern Hebrew alphabets without Niqqud / Nikud / Hebrew Vowels) 

          OR

יַהְוֶה (YHWH in Modern Hebrew alphabets with Niqqud / Nikud / Hebrew Vowels)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Hebrew text is read from LEFT to RIGHT:-

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THE ORGINAL HEBREW NAME OF THE MESSIAH

In Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ (H4899) = Mashiach (Hebrew) = Messiah (English) / Anointed One (the Savior who saves the sinners for those who believe in Him)

FULL NAME in Hebrew text with ‘The’: יְהוֹשׁעַ הַמָשִׁיחַ = Yahusha Ha-Mashiach = Yahusha The Anointed One.

Christos > Χριστός (Greek) transliterated into Christ (English) which means Anointed One 

NOTES:-

1. SPELLING VERSION #1:-

Yeshua יֵשׁוּעַ (H3442 = He will save) is a shortened form of Yehoshooah / Yahushua יְהוֹשׁוּעַ (H3091 = God / Yah saves). EXAMPLE #1: Mike is a shortened form of Michael. EXAMPLE #2: Josh is a shortened form of Joshua.

2. SPELLING VERSION #2:-

Yehoshooah as spelt in this manner depicts Joshua יְהוֹשׁוּעַ (H3091 = yeh-ho-SHOO-ah) adds Hosea, יְהוֹשׁוּעַ (H1954 = deliver / salvation). Therefore, Yehoshooah / Yahushua means God is Salvation God  / Yah saves.

3. SPELLING VERSION #3:-

Yahushua as spelt in this manner depicts that the Messiah came in the name of His Father, Yah יה / יָהּ (H3050) as in John 5:43).

4. SPELLING VERSION #4:-

Yahusha (יְהוֹשׁעַ) as spelt in this manner depicts that the Messiah came in the name of His Father and according to the original ancient Hebrew text spelling and pronunciation.

Yah יָהּ (H3050), + וָֹ (u) + שַׁ Sh + ע A = Yahusha (יְהוֹשׁעַ) which means Yahuah (God) saves (H3091) (NOTE: Hebrew text is read from left to right). See the diagram below:-

 

יְהוֹשׁעַ (H3091 = God / Yahuah saves)

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GUIDE TO BE A BELIEVER / TO BE SAVED

To accept Jesus Christ (original name in Hebrew: Yahusha HaMashiach) as your personal Lord and Savior and what to do next, click here.

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John 5:38 King James Version (KJV)
And ye (you) have not his (His) word abiding in you: for whom he hath (He / Yahuah has) sent, him ye (Him you) believe not.

1 John 5:2 King James Version (KJV)
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his (His) commandments.

James 1:22 King James Version (KJV)
But be ye (you) doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Galatians 6:7 King James Version (KJV)
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth (sows / puts in / plants / spreads), that shall he also reap (harvest / attain / get).

Galatians 6:3 King James Version (KJV)
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1 Corinthians 15:33 King James Version (KJV)
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Colossians 2:8 King James Version (KJV)
Beware lest any man (Beware, otherwise others may) spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit (deception), after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (following the elementary principles of this world, rather than following [the truth—the teachings of] Mashiach).

1 Thessalonians 5:11 King James Version (KJV)
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye (you) do.”

Hebrews 3:13 King James Version (KJV)
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Matthew 10:8 King James Version (KJV)
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye (you) have received, freely give.

Romans 10:9 King James Version (KJV)
That if thou shalt (you shall) confess with thy (your) mouth the Lord Jesus (Aḏon Yahusha), and shalt (shall) believe in thine (your) heart that God hath (Yahuah has) raised him (Him) from the dead, thou shalt (you shall) be saved.

John 3:3 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Jesus (Yahusha) answered him, “I assure you and most solemnly (seriously) say to you, unless a person is born again [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified], he cannot [ever] see and experience the kingdom of God (Yahuah).”

Isaiah 52:6 King James Version (KJV)
“Therefore MY PEOPLE SHALL KNOW MY NAME: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth (He who does) speak: behold, it is I.”

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