Lesson 124 Amplified -- BIAZO

 BIAZO

American: to force or to crowd oneself into 

BIASTES

American: a forcer 

            This lesson is about the Kingdom of God. Our Lord Jesus, the Christos, says, in Matthew 18.3,

“Amen! I say to you, unless you revert and are caused to be as the children you cannot (by no means) enter into the Kingdom of the Ouranon [Heaven].”

In Luke 17.20,

 He tells the Pharisees,

“The Kingdom of Theos not comes amidst viewing; neither will they say LO! in this same place nor LO! there, for the Kingdom of Theos is INSIDE you!”

In the scriptures below He says that the Kingdom of Theos is being entered by force!? 

Almost Greek: [Words in italics are translator’s additions.] 

Luke 16.14: Now, the Pharisees also heard all these words and being money-lovers, they scoffed at Him. And He said to them, 

“You are dikaiountes [justifying] yourselves before the faces of men but Theos knows your hearts because the lofty in men is an abomination before the face of Theos. The Law and the Prophets [Old Testament] was preached up until John Bar Zekaryahuw. From then on, the Kingdom of Theos is being euaggelizetai [good news being announced, being evangelized] and all are biazetai [forcing themselves into, crowding into] it. But it is easier for the ouranon [heavens, sky] and the earth to pass away than for one keraian [the dot of an “i”] to fall.”

 

[This may be a condemnation of the editing and additions to the five “Books of Moses” and “The Books of the Prophets” that had been practiced for scores of years in the copying of texts by the grammateis [writers, recorders, scribes, secretaries].] 

Matthew 11.11: [Jesus speaking] “Amen! I say to you, there hasn’t arisen (in those born of gunaikon [a woman]) one greater than John the Baptistou but the mikroteros [smallest, least] in the Kingdom of the Ouranon is greater than he is. Now, from the days of John the Baptistou (until just now) the Kingdom of the Ouranon is biazetai [being entered by force or crowding] and the biastai [forcers] seize it. For all The Law and the Prophets proepheteousan [before told, prophesied] until John and If you choose to receive this, he is Elijah! He who was expected to come! He having ears to hear, let him hear! But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like little boys sitting down in the marketplace, prosphonousi [sounding towards, shouting to] their comrades and saying, ‘We played the flute to you, and you didn’t dance! We bewailed to you, and you didn’t chop [beat the breast in grief].’ For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, ‘He has a daimonion [demonic being, demon].’ And the Son of Man came, both eating and imbibing, and they say, ‘LO! a gluttonous Man and a wine drinker; a philos [friend] of tax collectors and hamartolon [missers or the mark or goal, those erring, offenders, sinners].’ And wisdom is edikaiothe [justified, vindicated] from her children.” 

End of One Hundred Twenty-fourth Lesson