MUSTERION
American: secrets,
mysteries
As Christians, our interest is in the secrets and mysteries of the Kingdom of God.
Almost Greek: [Words in italics are translator’s additions.]
2nd Thessalonians 2: Brothers! we ask you over the coming of our Kurios [Lord, Master] Jesus, the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ], and our gathering together to Him, not to waver in the nous [intellect, mind, understanding]; not to be frightened neither via pneuma [wind, breath, spirit] nor via logos [word] nor via letter (as if from me) as if the Day of the Christos is come. Let not even one person deceive you not (in no way) because unless the apostasia [defection from the truth, apostasy] comes first and the man of hamartia [misses of the mark or goal, error, offense, sin] is revealed (the son of destruction, he who is opposite to Theos and is exalting himself over everything relating to Theos [Father God] or object of worship), to sit down in the Temple of Theos, as if Theos (showing that he himself is a theos), the Day of the Christos hasn’t come. Don't you remember that I told you these things while I was still with you? And now, you know that one is holding down his being revealed until his set time. For the musterion of anomias [lawlessness] is already energeitai [active]. Now, he is merely holding him down until it comes into being emergent from the middle. Then the anomos [lawless one] will be revealed, whom the Kurios will destroy by the pneumati [breaths, spirits] of His mouth and katargesei [render him entirely idle or useless] by the manifestation of Himself at His return; of whom [him, the lawless one] is the parousia [coming] down of the energeian [efficiency, energy] of Satanas in all dunamis [force, power] of pseudes [false, deceitful, pseudo] semeia [signs, indications] and terasi [wonders] and with all unjust delusions in the lost because they not received the agape [unconditional love] of the truth, whereby they might sothenai [be made safe, be saved]. Because of their rejection of the truth, Theos will send to them fraudulent energeian for them to pisteusai [to put their faith in], pseudes [falsehoods, lies] in order that all those not pisteusantes in the truth but having approved injustice, may be condemned.
1st
Corinthians.2: Coming to you, brothers, I not came kataggellon [promulgating,
publishing, officially making known] the testimony of Theos down [according]
to superiority of logos or wisdom for I decided not to know anything in you except Jesus, the Christou,
and Him having been crucified. In feebleness, in fear and in much trembling, I was with you. My logos and my kerugma [proclamations]
were not in persuasive man wisdom
logoi; conversely, in manifestation of the Hagios
Pneuma and in dunameos in order that
your pistis [reliance, faith] not be in the wisdom of men but in the
dunamei of Theos. Now, I do speak wisdom in the complete [perfected]
ones but not the wisdom of this
age, neither the wisdom of the chiefs
of this age katargoumenon [those being rendered entirely idle, useless]; conversely, I speak a wisdom of Theos in musterion
having been kept secret, which Theos predetermined before the ages for our
glory, which not even one of the chiefs of this age has known. For if they had
known, they hadn’t crucified the Kurion of glory. Conversely, even as it has
been written,
“What
eye didn’t see, and ear didn’t hear and not came up in the heart of man, this is how Theos prepared those
agaposin [unconditionally loving] Him.”
ISAIAH
64.4: “From forever they haven’t heard; they not gave ear. Eye hasn’t seen an
Elohiym [plural “Gods” -- the Trinity?] (except You) Who works for him
who waits for Him.”
[Paul
continues] But
to us, Theos revealed the mysteries
via His Hagios Pneuma for the Hagios Pneuma searches all, even the
profundity of Theos. For whom (in men) knows the thoughts of a man except the pneuma of the man which is in him? So also, the thoughts
of Theos not even one being has known
except the Hagios Pneuma of Theos. Now, we have not received the pneuma of the kosmou [universe,
world, cosmos]; conversely, we have
received the Hagios Pneuma Who is emergent from Theos in order that
we may know the truths gratuitously
given to us by Theos. These words I
also speak, not in wisdom logoi taught of man, conversely, in words taught of the Hagios Pneuma,
comparing the spiritual thoughts with
the spiritual words. A natural man not
receives the truths of the Hagios Pneuma of Theos for they are
foolishness to him, and he is unable to know them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual One (in fact) discerns all but He is
discerned by not even one person. For
who knew the mind of the Kuriou? Who will teach Him?
ISAIAH
40.13: Who has meted out the Qodesh
[Hagios] Ruwach [Pneuma] of YHWH? or a man His counsel taught Him?
1st
Corinthians 15.50: I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood isn’t able to
inherit the Kingdom of Theos nor is decay able
to inherit imperishability. LO!
I tell you a musterion. Indeed, we shan’t all be put to sleep,
but we shall all be changed in a moment (in a jerk of the eye) in the
final reverberation. For it will
trumpet and the dead will be awakened imperishable, and we shall be changed for
this decaying body must be clothed
with imperishability and this mortal body
must be clothed with athanasian [deathlessness, immortality]. When
this decayed shall be clothed with imperishability and this mortal be clothed
with athanasian, then will occur the logos written,
“Death was swallowed into victory. Where is your sting, O Death? Where, O Haides [Unseen, subterranean world of the dead, Hades], is your victory?”
HOSEA
13.14: [YHWH speaking] “From Sheol’s hand I will ransom them. From
Death, I will redeem them. Where are
your plagues, O Death? Where are your
exterminations, O Sheol [Haides]?”
Romans 11.25: Now, I don't want you to be ignorant of
this musterion, brothers, (lest you be wise in yourselves [your own
estimation]) that a part off Israel is caused to be callous until the
ethnon [nations, races, non-Jews, gentiles] enter completion and then in
this way all Israel sothesetai [will be made safe, will be saved], just
as has been written, “The Rescuer will arrive emergent from Zion and He will
turn away [back] Jacob from impiety.”
ISAIAH
59.20: “... the Redeemer comes to Zion and to those in Jacob, turning them back
from rebellion.”
[Paul continues] “This is the blood covenant
(from Me) with them, when I remove their hamartias.”
DEUTERONOMY
7.8: … the fostering El [Theos], keeping the blood covenant …
ISAIAH
27.9: [YHWH speaking] “... by this will the perversity of Jacob be
covered, and all the fruit is to turn
away his offense.”
Romans 16.25: Now, to the One capable of sterichan [securely setting, making one steadfast], down to my euaggelion [good news, gospel, evangel] and the kerugma [proclamation] of Jesus, the Christou, down to the revelation of the musteriou, having been kept secret for eternal past ages but now revealed via prophetikon [prophetic] writings, made known down to the command of the eternal Theos, to obedience of pisteos [reliance, faith] to all the ethne, the sole wise Theos; to Whom (via Jesus, the Christou) be glory to the ages. Amen!
Colossians
1.24: Now, I rejoice in my sufferings over you and
supplement the deficit of the stresses of the Christou in my flesh over His
somatos [body], which is the ekklesia [assembly, church] of which
I was caused to be a servant down to administration from Theos. That administration was given to me to [for]
you, to make replete [complete] the Logos of Theos the musterion
having been kept from the ages [beginning of time] and from the
generations but now was revealed to His hagios, to whom Theos ethelesen [determines, chooses,
decides, decrees] to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this musterion
in the ethnesin: the Hagios
Pneuma, Who is the Christos inside of
you, the elpis [expectation, hope] of glory. We kataggellomen [promulgate,
publish, officially make known] Him,
warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may
stand beside [present] every man complete in Jesus, the Christo, to [for]
which I also labor, competing [struggling] down to His energeian [activity,
efficiency], the One energoumenen
[active, efficient] in me in dunamei [force, power, works of power].
2. For I want you to
know how great contention [anxiety] I have with respect to you and those
in Laodicea and as many [all] who haven’t seen my face in the flesh in
order that their hearts might be parakthosin [called near, invited, urged,
exhorted, encouraged], being driven together in agape and to all wealth of
making understanding replete to recognition of the musterion of Theos
the Father and of the Christou in Whom is secreted all the wealth of wisdom and
knowledge. And this I say in order that not even one man delude [deceive] you in persuasive language for if (in
fact) I am absent in flesh, conversely, I am with you in pneumatic [spirit],
rejoicing and looking at your orderliness
and the stability of your pisteos into the Christon.
Ephesians 3: Eulogetos [Fine spoken of, Commended, Blest, Praised] be the Theos and Father of our Kuriou Jesus, the Christou, Who blest us with all spiritual eulogesas [blessings] above the sky [in Heaven], in Jesus, the Christo, as He selected us before the founding of the kosmou to be hagious [holy, sacred, consecrated one; saint] and unblemished before Him. He was predestining us (in agape) to adoption via Jesus, the Christou, to Himself down [according] to His good pleasure and thelematos [determination, choice, decision, decree], to the praise of His glory and charitos [graciousness] with which He favored us in the Egapemeno [Beloved] in Whom we have redemption via Jesus’ blood; aphesin [forgiveness] of paraptomaton [side slips, lapses, deviations] down to the riches of the Father’s charitos. Which graciousness He caused to abound to us in all wisdom and intelligence, making known to us the musterion of His thelematos down to His good pleasure, which Father proposed (in Himself) for administration of the fullness of times, to head up all the ouranois [heavens, skies] and the earth in the Christo. In Him [Jesus], we have been selected to be an inheritance, being predestined down to the purpose of the Father, all working down to His boulen [will, resolve, intention]; His thelematos [determination, choice, decision, decree] for us to be His praise and glory, those having previously trusted in the Christo. In Him [Jesus], you were also hearing the logon of truth, the euaggelion of your soterias [rescue, safety; salvation] and in Whom you pisteusantes [were also having reliance or faith]. You were sealed up with the epaggelias [announced, proclaimed, promised] Hagios Pneuma, Who is the arrhabona [pledge, earnest, down payment] of our inheritance until the redemption of the possession to Jesus’ praise and glory.
1st Timothy 3.14: I write these words to you elpizon [expecting, hoping] to come toward you before long but if I delay, know that you must know how to behave in the house of Theos (which is the ekklesia of Theos) the living pillar and support of the truth. And by confession, mega is the musterion of godliness. Theos was rendered apparent [manifested] in flesh, was edikaiothe [justified] in the Hagios Pneuma, was gaped at by aggelois, was ekeruchthe [proclaimed, heralded] in the ethnesin [nations], episteuthe [had faith put in Him] in the kosmou, and was taken up in glory.
End of One Hundred Twenty-ninth
Lesson
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