Amos 5:10

 

They hate the one that corrects in the gate and they abhor one that speaks uprightly

Comments: Amos 5:10 [Invisible women] Scripture also records women rebuking, correcting, and speaking uprightly. It is wrong and wicked to call all mortals by the male designation. This is an ages-long deliberate effort to undermine the value of women

Women are not him, his, or he. And Bible translators should take into consideration when mixed crowds or both women and men are being referenced and translate accordingly. Bible translators should take full context into consideration while translating and should do so without gender-bias. 

Amos 5:7-8

 You who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth Seek HIM that makes the seven stars and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the [light of] morning and makes the day dark with night that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth YHWH is his name; ס Samech.

Comments: Hosea 5:8 Verse :8 ends with an untranslated, **stand-alone, Hebrew letter, samech, which has a meaning of surround, protect, to prop up, to support. So, we see that in addition to everything else YHWH says in Hosea 5:8, HE ends the message with a reminder that HE is Israel’s protection and sustainer. 

Along with the reminder of who HE is, we would do well to remember that we, also, are commanded to not to oppress the poor and the orphans. We are commanded to protect and be a support to those who have no strength. We are not to pervert justice and goodness. That is SAMECH.  

** Many passages in the Hebrew Bible end with stand-alone letters that carry great meaning. Most lexicons and concordances do not mention these, and if they do, they shrug them off as inarticulate and untranslatable. This is slothful rubbish, when translators know that Hebrew letters have not only sounds but meanings. Simple footnotes explaining this would more than suffice. But lay-people remain ignorant, thus having their personal study stunted if they fully trust translators who know full-well these stand-alone letters are present in the text.

This contributes to the power spiritual leaders have due to knowledge and understanding they possess that lay-people do not. The imbalance of power between the learned and the unlearned is a deliberate and carefully maintained balance of power. The good news is that the unlearned can learn if they so desire.

John 19:19 Jesus or Yeshua? Was Hebrew a dead language in Jesus's day?

And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross and the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS This title then read many of the Jews for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin --John 19:19

Comments:  Some claim that Hebrew was a completely dead language by the time Jesus was born. Some say the name Yeshua was invented by the Hebrew Roots and Sacred Name groups. But the Bible says differently. The superscription above Jesus' cross was written in Hebrew, as well as the other two common languages spoken in Jerusalem.

If Hebrew was a dead language in the First Century, then why was it referred to as a living language in the New Testament? The superscription placed above Jesus on the cross, was written in three languages. The languages were Greek, Latin, and Hebrew

Latin is a dead spoken language today, but it was not a dead language in Jesus' day. Latin, the old Italia, was the spoken language of the Romans, who had earlier become Grecianized when they were conquered by the Greeks. Though Greek became their primary spoken language, it took much longer for their mother tongue of Latin to die. Latin was still very much a living language in the first centuries, as was Hebrew. 

When Jesus walked the earth, all three languages that were placed on the sign above his head while he hung on the cross, were spoken languages. Greek may have been the everyday language. Every Jew may not have spoken or read Hebrew, just as many Romans no longer read or spoke Latin, but many still did. Enough so that Pilate commanded that the superscription, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS, was written in Hebrew as well as in Greek and Latin. 

The superscription above Jesus' cross: (John 19:19) Greek: iEsous of Nazareth the King of the Jews ... Latin:  Iesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews ... Hebrew: יﬣושע (Yeshua) of Nazareth, the King of the Jews

We know the Hebrew spelling because the names Joshua (יﬣושע) and Jesus are the same name in Hebrew and Greek. 

Hebrew was a language the people of Jesus' day understood, both written and spoken, and Pilate wanted to make sure all the people understood, hence the three most commonly spoken and written languages of the day (in Jerusalem). 

Yes, Jesus quoted from the LXX, which was a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. But he had access to the Hebrew scriptures as well. We still have the Hebrew Scriptures today, because God promised that HIS WORD would be preserved to every generation. that includes Jesus' generation and our generation. Hebrew was not a dead language in the first Century. If it had been, the superscription above Jesus' cross would never have been written in Hebrew

Jesus and Joshua share the same name. We see this in both the Old Testament and the New. 

Greek speaking early Christians also called Joshua, iEsou(ihsou), Hsous/iEsous (Greek variations of the name Jesus). Joshua is called Jesus in Acts 45 & Hebrews 4:8

Greeks called Joshua, Jesus, but that did not mean his name was not Joshua. In his lifetime, all Hebrews called Joshua, יﬣושע, Yhoshua, or Yeshua. Same name. 

In the name Joshua (meaning YHWH יﬣוﬣ] is salvation), we see the first three letters of the Tetragrammaton YHWHיﬣוﬣ. (Yahweh or Yehovah). Transliteration or not, the name Joshua in Hebrew is the same name as Jesus in Greek. 

There should be no debate about whether it is incorrect to call Jesus Yeshua or visa-versa. This is not an either-or question. 

Joshua Jesus Yeshua Joshua iEsou, (ihsou), Hsous/iEsous ...all the same. All are Ok. *All are HIS name, just in different languages. 

*If only the Greek Translation (LXX) of the Old Covenant is relevant today, then the Septuagint is the only version of the Old Testament all Christians should possess and read. But it is doubtful any Believer takes that position. The LXX is simply a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures but should not be elevated above them. 

In Jesus’ day, the people of the Roman Empire spoke many languages. In Jerusalem, three were primary, Greek, Latin...and Hebrew.

Joel 3:11-17 commentary

 


Mobilize you Come you All of the nations from round about And they are convened there-ward YHWH cause thy mighty ones to come down Nations they shall be roused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about Put ye in the sickle for the harvest is ripe Come get you down for the press is full The vats overflow for their wickedness is great Multitudes, multitudes in the Valley of Decision for יום יﬣוﬣ  Yom Yahweh Day of the LORD is near in the Valley of Decision The sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall withdraw their shining Matthew 24:29 And YHWH shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem Matthew 24:30, John 8:24, Revelation 19:11-16 and the heavens and the earth shall shake Matthew 24:29 and YHWH will be the hope of his people Isaiah 66:8-9, Zechariah 12:10, Matthew 24:25-30 [Yeshua YHWH] and the strength of the children of Israel So shall you know that I [am] YHWH your Elohim dwelling in Zion MY Holy Mountain Then shall Jerusalem be holy and there shall no strangers pass through her any more

Comments: Joel 3:11-17 is a parallel passage to Matthew 24:25-30 and Revelation 19:11-16. In this passage we see the Battle of Armageddon, which happens on the day of the 2nd Coming--the Day Yeshua YHWH Returns. 

In Joel 3:11-17, we see the Godhead speaking in both 1st & 3rd persons. We see that YHWH, the King of kings and Lord of Lords, roars out of Zion to judge and make war. Revelation 19:11-16 says that JESUS is King of kings and Lord of lords. Yeshua is YHWH, who roars on the scene [at the Battle of Armageddon] with the armies of Heaven to defeat his enemies who are advancing on HIS city, Jerusalem Matthew 24:30, Revelation 19:11-16

Jesus is God. Yeshua is YHWH John 1:1 & 8:24, 1 Timothy 6:14-16

Joel 3:4

 


4:
Yes and what have you to do with ME O Tyre and Zidon and all the coasts of פְּ לָ שֶׁ ת Philistia?

Comments: Joel 3:4 The original Palestinians were Jews. The Romans are the ones who renamed Judea as Palestine, which was never a name for any of the Canaanite tribes who inhabited The Promised Land ... including the Philistines who inhabit Philistia to this day.

The name Palestine was originally a Roman name for the Jewish territory of Judea. They did this in an attempt to deprive the Jews of their Jewish identities. In Joel 3:4, Yahweh did not call Philistia Palestine; antisemitic or ignorant Bible translators did that. The word translated as Palestine in Joel 3:4, is the Hebrew word פְּ לָ שֶׁ ת Philistia.

A Bible issued to American Jewish military personnel... 

correctly translates the Hebrew word פְּ לָ שֶׁ ת as Philistia. The Bible, copyrighted in 1918 and 1945, was translated by the Jewish Publication Society of America.

In that Bible, the book of Joel has four chapters and not three, as in Christian Bibles. Joel 3:4 in Christian Bibles, is Joel 4:4 in the 1917-1945 translation of The Holy Scriptures for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States. In both the Jewish Bible for Military personnel and the Hebrew text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex with vowels, the word translated as Palestine in Joel 3:4, is the Hebrew word פְּ לָ שֶׁ ת, Philistia.

 Philistia is the home of the Philistines, who are Canaanites who were never completely conquered by Joshua when the Children of Israel entered The Promised Land.

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Revelation 18:20

 


Rejoice over her [destruction] thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets for God hath avenged you Revelation 18:24 on her

Comments: Revelation 18:20 It is time to rejoice! On the day Christ returns the serpent’s spiritual and geographical capitol on earth is crushed. The violent overthrow of the Man of Sin’s capitol city, Babylon, is only the beginning. Before the day is over, not only will the Battle of Armageddon will be won Isaiah 17:14, Joel 3:2, Zechariah 12:2-9, but a nation will be converted to Yeshua, the true Messiah Isaiah 66:8-11, Zechariah 12:10.

Since soon after the great flood, the source—the head—of Satan’s influence on earth, has been physical and spiritual Babylon. Noah’s great-grandson, Nimrod (son of Ham) Genesis 10:8-11, was the architect of the Tower of Babel, the first attempt after the flood at building a portal to the second heaven Genesis 11:1-4. The Tower was located in the place that would be called Babel, becoming the ancient name for Babylon, which was located in the land of Shinar Genesis 11.

Babylon has never been utterly destroyed as prophesied in Jeremiah Jeremiah 50:39-40, Revelation 18:18-21.

The Man of Sin will locate his capitol at the exact location of the Tower of Babel in the land of Shinar Zechariah 5:5-11

Though God, in his mercy, interrupted that evil project Genesis 11:5-9, Babel has been the serpent’s physical and spiritual capitol of evil ever since, the source wherewith he has been poisoning and wreaking havoc on the earth since after the flood.

During the final seven years before Christ’s visible and physical return Daniel’s 70th Week, the earth will witness the horrific culmination of Babel’s power and destructive influence when up to 85% of earth’s population will die Matthew 24:22.

Joel 2:32

 

32: And it shall come to pass that whosoever Acts 2:16-21 shall call on the name of YHWH shall be delivered (-) For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as YHWH has said and in the **remnant  Zechariah 10:12 whom YHWH shall call 

Comments: Joel 2:32 There is a parenthesis in this verse, a chronological separation of time, between the time when anyone who calls on the name of YHWH will be saved/delivered Acts 2:16-21 (-) and the time when the **remnant in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem will be saved Isaiah 66:8-11, Zechariah 12:10. 

**There are Christian groups today, that refer to themselves as the “remnant.” But biblically, the word remnant only refers to Jews. There is only one Body of Christ, those who belong to Jesus and have the Holy Spirit dwelling within them. And the Body of Christ is not fragmented into “remnants” of those who are faithful and those not so much. The Body of Christ is one. Those who do not have the Holy Spirit dwelling within them, do not have eternal life and are not of the Body. 100% of those who are saved, belong to the Body of Christ. John assures those of us who have Jesus that we have life, that we possess it now. We are the Body of Christ, and it is impossible for THE BODY to be fragmented into remnants.

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Joel 2:31

 


31:
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood Matthew 24:29   before the great the terrible Day yowm YHWH come

Comments: Joel 2:31 Between the end of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and the dazzling appearance of Jesus and his armies, with the exception of a blood moon (Jesus said the moon would not give her light), the entire world will momentarily go completely dark. The angelic powers of the heavens 2nd Heaven shall fall Matthew 24:29

How long will the total darkness last? No one knows but long enough to grind everything to a halt. 

The purpose of the darkness? Jesus said, “after that,” after the world goes dark, after the angelic powers fall, the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the heavens Matthew 24:30. This will bring about the fulfillment of the prophecies of Zechariah 12:10 and Romans 11:24-29. 

What will the sign of the Son of Man be? Some say the darkened sky will be lit with the great light of the cross. That will be the sign that will bring the tribes of Israel to their knees and a nation will be born again in one day Isaiah 66:8-11, John 3:7

Then, after the prophecy in Zechariah 12:10 is fulfilled, they shall see the Son of Man coming with power and great glory. He will come with great clouds [of witnesses 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18, Hebrews 11] with the armies of Heaven (The resurrected and raptured Righteous and his angel armies).  

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Ephesians 5:28-33 commentary

 


So ought men to love their women as their own bodies He that loves his wife loves himself For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourishes and cherishes it even as the Lord the church For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his woman and they two shall be one flesh This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the church Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife that she fear her husband

Comments: Ephesians 5:28-33 does not establish gender-based hierarchy, as Christians are so commonly taught. What it establishes is that, because of The Fall, husbands will have a sinful tendency to love themselves more than they love their wives. This passage establishes the fact that the prophecy in Genesis 3:16 is being fulfilled and that husbands need to be encouraged to love their wives at least as much as they love their own selves.


But wait, isn’t Jesus’ command that we one another as HE loves us given to the entire Body of Christ? Is it a gender-based command? Is Paul’s reminder to selflessly love one another by preferring one another before ourselves a gender-based admonition? Was Peter’s reminder to love one another deeply a gender-based admonition? So how is it that husbands needing to be told to love their wives is somehow a good thing?


Only gender-biased-theology can transform a fulfillment of a cursed prophecy into a compliment. Ephesians 5:28-33 does not confirm a gender-based hierarchy. Rather, in fulfillment of the prophecy in Genesis 3:16, it confirms that husbands will not only have a sinful tendency not to love their wives as Christ loves us but that husbands will be tempted to not love their wives even as much as they love their own selves.

There is no separate set of biblical rules for wives and husbands than for any other Christian. Christ’s commandment for all of his followers to love each other as HE loves us is not a gender-based command, and it is to be taken seriously by every Believer.


So why is it that husbands need to be commanded to love their wives … at least as much as they love their own selves?


Wives are never commanded to love their husbands. Does that mean they don’t have to? Of course not.


Why is it that husbands are warned that if they do not treat their wives right, their prayers will be hindered? Why is it that Paul warned women (Ephesians 5:33) that they should be afraid of their husbands (The Greek word in that verse is more accurately translated as a phobia-based “fear,” and not “reverence”)?


Gender-biased-theology has transformed and twisted the prophecies in Genesis 3:16, into both blessing (for men) and slander (of women). The prophecy was that men would have a sinful tendency to dominate their women and that women would have a sinful tendency to love their men more than their Creator.


Complementarianism teaches women to ignore the voice of God and follow the voice of their husbands, should the two voices contradict.


Complementarianism teaches that women do not have to answer to God if they obey their husbands, even if their husbands lead them into sin. God does not bless sin, whether it is committed by women or men. And he certainly did not bless the first male for disobeying the only “Thou shalt not,” that he was given in The Garden.


Each of the first pair suffered the consequence of their action. The only blessings given in the Genesis three passage, were given to the woman, when she was told that her conception would be multiplied (children are blessings and not curses) and that one of her offspring would defeat the serpent.


As for Ephesians 5:28-33, It is not a hierarchical passage confirming gender-based-authority of men over women, but rather a reproach on husbands that they even need to be commanded to love their wives in the first place.

Husbands who are living their lives according to the Word of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, do not need to be commanded to love their wives.

Ephesians 5:28-33 is meant for men and women who have drunk **the complementarian Kool-Aid, and, because of that some husbands have become physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual threats to some wives.


**Many couples who give lip-service to complementarianism either have or appear to have happy marriages. Complementarian leaders point to this as proof that their doctrine is scriptural and that their unbiblical model of male governance “works.” Looking below the surface, it is often found that in practice, happy couples who give lip service to complementarianism actually live egalitarian lives. Others, such as in the case of [the late] Elisabeth Elliot, hide the authoritarianism and unhappiness in their marriages. Elliot was a life-long champion of male governance. Her marriages were all based on the complementarian model of females submitting to males. In her 1966 book, Let Me be a Woman, Elliot admitted to unhappiness in her marriage but refused to admit the reason for it. She advised her daughter that she should expect to cry for no reason, that women simply cry for “no reason.” I submit to you, that no one cries for no reason. 


Thankfully, there are men do not fall for the complementarian siren song of male governance. Ephesians 5:28-33 is not meant for such men. Likewise, it is not meant for women who are married to such men. These wives need not fear their husbands.

Joel 2:17-b

 


17: Let the priests the ministers of YHWH weep between the porch and the altar and let them say Spare your people YHWH And give not your heritage to reproach that the nations should rule over them

Comments: Joel 2:17-b For centuries, the Jewish people were scattered among the nations, a people without a country. And now that they are back in their own land, the Nations continue to attempt rulership of Israel through the United Nations, which was established October 24, 1945, three years before Israel, in fulfillment of Bible prophecy, was restored back to their land and became a nation again. It is no secret that many member nations are bitter enemies of Israel. The United Nations has long been publishing maps that eliminate Israel from the Middle East. 

A 2008 CNS News article reported that Israel was missing from a U.N. sponsored map.

A 2014 article in the Jerusalem Post reports that HarperCollins publishing house has omitted Israel from maps in atlases they sell to English-speaking schools in the Middle East,” 

A 2017 article reports that textbooks used in UN-run schools feature maps without Israel http://www.thetower.org/4385-textbooks-used-in-un-west-bank-schools-erased-jewish-history-featured-maps-without-israel.

U.N. (world-wide) attempts to interfere with the sovereignty of Israel are signs that we are indeed living in the Last Days, and the news articles listed in this post are just the tip of the iceberg, only a few examples of the world-wide antisemitism that will continue to grow and infect every nation Zechariah 12:2-3. This will not stop, and the nation of Israel will remain a prophetic hot spot until the physical, visible, return of Yeshua ha Mashiach, the Messiah, to this earth.