Lesson 44 Amplified – AMEN

 

AMEN

From Greek to American: firmly, surely, so be it

Hebrew Aramaic: to American: surely, truly, certainly, so be it 

The first mention of “Amen” in the Bible is in Numbers 5.22. The Koine Greek transliteration of the Hebrew Aramaic is the same -- “Amen”. 

Numbers 5.22: And the ishshah [woman] shall say Amen, Amen. 

Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

2nd Corinthians 1.18: But Theos is pistos [trustworthy, faithful] that our [my] logos [word] to you wasn’t caused to be “Yes” and “No.” For the Son of Theos, Jesus, the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ], the One in you via us [me]; keruchtheis [proclaimed, heralded] via me, Silvanus [in Latin: “Wood”; in American: “Silas”] and Timotheos [in Greek: “Dear to God”; in American: “Timothy”] wasn’t caused to be “Yes” and “No”; conversely, “Yes” was caused to be in Him. For as many as are the kerugma [proclamations] of Theos, in Him is the “Yes” and in Him is the “Amen” toward glory to Theos via us. For as many as are the kerugma [a proclamation] of Theos, in Him is the “Yes” and in Him is the “Amen” toward glory to Theos via us. 

Romans 1.24: Therefore, Theos also surrendered them (in the lusts of their hearts) to impurity in order that their somata [bodies] be rendered infamous in themselves, who exchanged the truth of Theos for the lie and venerated and served the creation rather than the Creator, Who is adorable to the ages. Amen!” 

Luke 12.35 “Let your loins be girdled [belted] and your lamp lit, and you will be like men awaiting their kurion, when he departs emergent from the nuptials in order that he coming and knocking, they will immediately open to him. Supremely blest are those slaves whom the kurios coming, will find awake. Amen! I say to you, that he will gird himself and will cause them to recline and coming up to them, he will serve them. And if he comes in the second watch [between 9 PM and midnight] or if he even comes in the third watch [between midnight and 3 AM] and find it so, supremely blest are those slaves. 

Luke 18.15: Now, they also brought towards Him infants in order that He might touch them. Now seeing this, the mathetai admonished them but Jesus summoned them to Him, saying, “Aete [allow, permit] the children to come to Me and not estop them for truly of this sort is the Kingdom of Theos. Amen! I say to you, whoever not receives the Kingdom of Theos in the manner of a child not (in no way) enters into it.”

Luke 18.28: Now, Rock said, “LO! we went forth from [left] everything and accompanied You.” Now, He said to all of them, “Amen! I say to you that there isn’t even one man (who has gone forth from house or parents or brothers or gunaika [woman, wife] or children because of the Kingdom of Theos) who shan’t fully receive many more in this time and in the coming age, eternal life.” 

Luke 21.29: And He told them a parable: “You see the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout (observe for yourselves), you know that (even now) summer is near. Thus, also, when you see these events being caused to be, know that the Kingdom of Theos is near. Amen! I say to you that not (in no way) will this generation pass away until all shall have been caused to be. The ouranos [sky, heavens] and the earth will pass away but My logoi not (in no way) will pass away.” 

Luke 23.39: But one of the hanged wrongdoers eblasphemei [spoke irreverently, spoke profanely; blasphemed] Him, saying, “If You are the Christos, soson [make safe, save] Yourself and also us.” But answering, the other wrongdoer admonished him, saying,“You not even fear Theos because we are under the same sentence? and we in fact justly. We receive suitable for what we practiced but He not practiced even one thing amiss.” And he said to Jesus, “Kurie! remember me whenever You come into Your Kingdom.” And Jesus said to him, “Amen! I say to you, on this day (amidst Me), you will be in paradeiso [Paradise].” 

James 5.19: Brothers! in case anyone in you is caused to stray from the truth and someone reverses him, know this, that the one reversing an hamartolon [misser of the mark or goal, one erring, one offending, one sinning] emergent from the fraudulence of his way, sosei [will make safe, will save] his psuchen [soul, life, psyche, ego] emergent from death and will cover up a fullness [crowd] of hamartion. Amen! 

Mark 3.27: Not even one man isn’t able, having entered the house of a powerful man, to plunder his goods, unless he first binds the powerful man and then he will plunder his house. Amen! I say to you that all the hamarotemata of the sons of men will be apheimi [sent forth, forsaken, forgiven] and whatever much blasphemiai they have blasphemesosin but whoever blasphemmese into the Hagios Pneuma, he hasn’t pardon to the age; conversely, he is liable to a perpetual judgment.” (He said this because they said, “He [Jesus] has an impure pneuma.”) 

Mark 8.11: And Pharisees issued forth and began to debate with Him, seeking a semeion [sign, indication] near [from] Him (from Ouranou [Heaven]), testing Him. And deeply sighing in His Pneumati [breath, spirit], He says, “Why searches this generation for a semeion? Amen! I say to you, this generation if will [won’t] be given a semeion!” 

Matthew 26.73: Now, after a micron of time, those standing by approaching, said to Rock, “Amen! you also are emergent from the Same for even your lalia [tongue, speech, dialect] makes you clear.” Then is when he began to curse and swear, “I not know the Man!” 

John 1.49: Nathaniel said to Him, “Rabbi! You are the Son of Theos! You are the King of Israel!” Jesus answered, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you have pisteueis in Me? You will see greater sights than these. Amen! Amen! I tell you, you will see Ouranon opened and the aggelous [messengers, angels] of Theos ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” 

Revelation 1.7: LO! He comes amidst the cloudiness and every eye will gaze (with wide open eyes) upon the Same and [as well as] those who nailed the Same and all the offshoots [cultures] of the earth will chop [pound the breast in grief] over the Same. Yes! Amen! 

Revelation 1.17: And when I saw the Same [Jesus], I fell forward (to His feet) as if dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying to me, “Not fear! I AM the First and the Last and the living One! And I was caused to be dead and LO! I AM living to the ages of the ages. Amen! And I hold the keys of Hadou [Haides: Unseen, subterranean world of the dead, Hades] and of death.” 

Revelation 3.14: “And to the aggelo of the ekklesias [assembly, church] in Laodicea, write: ‘These words says the Amen; the pistos and truthful Witness, the Chief of the Creation of Theos: 

End of Forty-fourth Lesson

Lesson 43 Amplified – OURANOS

                                                             OURANOS -- OURANOI

American singular: elevation, the heavens, the sky, aloft -- plural: the skies, the heavens

Hebrew Aramaic or Chaldee singular: shameh -- plural: shamayim 

OURANOS -- OURANOI

American singular: Heaven -- plural: Heavens, Heavenlies

Hebrew Aramaic or Chaldee singular: Shamayin -- plural: Shamayim 

Capitalizing these words makes them refer to Heaven; the location of the City of God that is described in Revelation. 

Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

1^st Thessalonians 4.13: I don’t want you to be ignorant with respect to those sleeping [having passed on], lest you grieve as also the rest do, not having elpis [expectation, hope]. For if we pisteuo [put our faith in] that Jesus died and stood up again, so Theos will also bring with Him [Jesus] those who have been put to sleep via Jesus. For this we say to you (in a logos [word] of the Kurios), that we (remaining living until the coming of the Kurios) not (in no way) may go ahead of those having been put to sleep because the Kurios Himself will descend from the ouranos in a rallying cry in the phone [sound, tone, noise, voice] of an archaggelos [chief messenger, chief angel] and with a trumpet of Theos. And first the dead in the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ] will stand up again, then the living will be caught up together with them (in the cloudiness) to a meeting of the Kurios in the air. And so, we will always be with the Kurios. So also comfort one another with these logoi. 

1^st Corinthians 15.45: So also, it has been written, “The first man, Adam, was caused to be into a living psuche [soul, life, psyche, ego].”

 

GENESIS 2.7: YHWH Elohiym [Triune God] formed Adam of dust from the ground and blew into his nostrils neshamah [breath] of life and Adam was caused to be a living nephesh [psuche].

 

{Corinthians cnt.} The final Adam [Jesus] was caused to be into a life-giving Pneuma [breath, spirit]. Conversely, the spiritual body not firstly came but the sensual; thereafter came the spiritual. The first man was emergent from the soil, earthly; the second Man (the Kurios) was emergent from Ouranou. As is the dirty man, so also are the dirty ones. And as is the above-the-sky [Heavenly] Man, so also are the above-the-sky ones. And as we bore the eikon [image, likeness, statue, icon] of the dirty man, we shall also bear the eikona of the above-the-sky Man.

 

2^nd Corinthians 12: Indeed, to boast is not advantageous to me. I will go on to visions and revelations of the Kuriou. I know a man [Paul] in the Christo, who fourteen years ago (whether in his somati [body] or outside his somatos I not know, Theos knows), this man was snatched to the third Ouranou. I know that this man [Paul] (whether inside his soma or outside his soma, I not know, Theos knows) was snatched to Paradeison [Paradise] and heard unspeakable rhemai [utterances] which it isn’t right for a man to speak. Over this I will boast but over myself I won’t boast, except in my feebleness.

 

Romans 10.6: But the dikaiosune [equity, justification, rightness] emergent from pisteos [faith] says thus, “Not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to Ouranon?’ that is to lead down the Christon or ‘Who will descend to the abussos [depthless, bottomless, abyss]?’ that is to lead up the Christon from among the dead.”

 

DEUTERONOMY 30.11: [Moses speaking] “For this command which I command you today is not too pala [difficult] for you and it isn’t too remote [far off]. It isn’t in the Shamayin such that you should say, ‘Who shall ascend to the Shamayin and get it for us and cause us intelligently to listen to it in order that we may do it?' And it isn’t beyond the Mediterranean Sea such that you should say, ‘Who will go around to the region beyond the Sea and take it for us intelligently to listen in order that we may do it?’ For the dabar [logos] is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart in order that you may do it.”

 

Colossians 1.14: He in Whom we have redemption via His blood; the freedom of [from] hamartion [misses of the mark or goal; errors, offenses, sins]. He Who is the eikon of the invisible Theos, the firstborn of all creation because in Him all was created: the things in the ouranois and the things upon the earth; the seen [visible] and the invisible, whether thrones or lordships or rank or authorities. All has been created via Him and to Him and He IS before the birth of the whole of creation and all is presented in Him. Also, He is the Head of the somatos [body], the ekklesias [assembly, church]. 

Luke 3.21: Now, it was caused to be that in the baptisthenai [immersion, submersion, baptism] of all the people, Jesus also was being baptisthentos by John and was proseuchoumenou [humbly begging God, praying] and the ouranon was opened up and the Hagios Pneuma came down upon Him in somatiko [bodily] form as a pigeon [dove] and a phone was caused to be emergent from the ouranou, saying, “You ARE My Son, the Agapetos [unconditionally Beloved]. I AM proud of You.” 

End of Forty-third Lesson

Lesson 42 Amplified – ORGE & THUMOS

         Now we address the anger of Father God. Two Koine Greek words are used in the New Testament for this negative emotion. 

                                                                       ORGE

American singular: violent passion, fury, rage, wrath

Hebrew singular: zaam, chemah, chema 

THUMOS, THUMOI

American singular: passion, anger, indignation -- plural: passions, angers, indignations

Hebrew singular: aph 

Clearly the former is more violent than the latter. The following excerpts display the distinctions. 

Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

1^st Thessalonians 5.9: For Theos not placed us prostrate into orge but for acquisition of soteria [rescue, safety, salvation] via our Kurios Jesus, the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ], the One having died on our behalf in order that whether we keep awake [live] or we sleep [die], we may live together with Him. 

Romans 1.18: For the orge of Theos (from Ouranou [Heaven]) is uncovered upon all impiety and injustice of men suppressing the truth in injustice because the well-known truth concerning Theos is shining [apparent] in them for Theos revealed it to them. 

Romans 2.5: But because of your skleroteta [callous, hard] and impenitent heart, you are accumulating for yourself orgen in a day of orges and a revelation of the dikaiokarisias [right judgment] of Theos, Who will give to each one down [according] to his work. Theos will give to those in fact by cheerful endurance in good work (seeking glory, timen [value, esteem] and incorruptibility [immortality]), eternal life but to those emergent from intrigue (even in fact willfully disbelieving the truth but approving injustice), He gives thumos and orge. There will be stress and calamity for every psuche [soul, life, psyche, ego] of man working totally kakon [the worthless], (firstly for the Jew and also for the Greek) but glory, time [value, esteem] and peace for everyone working good (firstly for the Jew and also for the Greek) for there isn’t partiality with Theos. 

Romans 9.22: What if Theos thelon [determined, chose, decided, decreed] to display orgen and to make His dunaton [force, power] known, endured in much forbearance vessels of orges (having been thoroughly completed toward destruction) and did so in order that He might display the wealth of His glory upon vessels of compassion which He prepared in advance for glory, whom He also called; us, not only emergent from Jews, conversely, also emergent from the ethnon [nations, races, non-Jews, Gentiles]. 

Romans 12.19: Not avenge yourselves, agapetoi [unconditionally beloved]; conversely, give place [space, room] for the orge of Theos for it has been written, “Revenge belongs to Me. I will repay,” says the Kurios. 

DEUTERONOMY 32.35 [YHWH] “... Revenge belongs to Me and recompense.” 

Romans 13: Let every psuche be subordinate [subject] to superior [higher] authorities for there isn’t authority, if not from Theos but the existing authorities exist due to having been arranged [instituted] under Theos. So too, the one opposing authority opposes the arrangement [institution] of Theos and those having opposed Him will receive a krima [decision, judgment rendered, verdict] to themselves. Rulers aren’t a cause of fears to those doing good works, but they are to the kakon [worthless]. Now, do you want not to fear authority? Do good and you will have praise emergent from the same for he is a servant of Theos for good to you but in case you do kakon, do fear! for he NOT eike [idly, vainly] wears the sword for he is a servant of Theos, a punisher to orgen of the one practicing kakon. Because of this, it is necessary to be in subjection, not merely because of orgen, conversely, because of conscience. 

Colossians 3.5: Accordingly, make your limbs [members] upon the earth dead to porneian [depravity], impurity, pathos [passion], lust, kakia [worthlessness] and avarice which is idolatry for which activities the orge of Theos is coming upon the sons of apeitheias [willful disbelief]. 

Hebrews 3.7: Therefore, the Hagios Pneuma says, “Today if you hear His voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the provocation in the day of the temptation in the wasteland, when your forefathers tempted Me (testing Me) and saw My works for forty years. Therefore, I was prosochthisa [vexed, annoyed] with that generation and I said, ‘They always err in their heart, and they didn’t know My ways,’ so I swore in My orge, ‘They shan’t enter into My katapausin [rest].’” 

PSALM 95.7: “Today if you will hear His voice, don’t harden your hearts as in Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wasteland, when your forefathers tempted Me. They tested Me and saw My work for forty years. I was disgusted with that generation and said, ‘They are a people who vacillate in their heart, and they don’t know My road [ways],’ to whom I swore in My zaam, ‘If shall [Not shall] they enter into My rest.’” 

Hebrews 4.2: For we, those pisteussantes [having faith], enter into the rest even as He said, “As I swore in My orge, ‘They shan’t enter into My rest,’” 

PSALM 95.10: “For forty years I was disgusted with that generation and said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart, and they don’t know My [Father God’s] ways, to whom I swore in my aph, ‘If they shall [They shan’t] enter into My rest.’” 

Ephesians 5.3: Not let porneia nor all [any] impurity nor greediness be named in you (as is fitting for hagiois) nor filthiness nor foolish speaking nor joking, the not becoming, but rather eucharistia [gratefully giving thanks] to Theos. For be knowing this, that every [not any] pornos or [nor] impure one or [nor] greedy one (who is an idolater), not has inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christou and of Theos. Not let even one man deceive you with empty logois [words] for via these actions comes the orge of Theos upon the sons of disobedience. 

End of Forty-second Lesson

Lesson 41 Amplified – KOSMOS

 

KOSMOS 

American: universe, world, cosmos 

The American language has assimilated the Greek word “kosmos”, spelling it “cosmos”, and retaining the Greek meaning: universe or world. 

Almost Greek:(Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

1^st Corinthians 1.20: Where is the wise? Where is the grammateus [writer, recorder, scribe, secretary]? Where is the sophos [disputer, sophist] of this age? Didn't Theos make the wisdom of this kosmou foolish? For since (in the wisdom of Theos) the kosmos not knew Theos via wisdom, Theos was pleased (via the foolishness of kerugmatos [proclamation]) to sosai [make safe, save] those pisteuontas [having faith]. Jews ask for a semeion [sign, indication] and Greeks seek wisdom but we kerussouen [herald, proclaim] the Christou [Anointed One, Messiah, Mashiyah, Christ] having been crucified. To Judaeans He is a skandalon [stumbling block, snare, scandal] and to Greeks He is foolishness but to the invited ones (both to Jews and to Greeks [all non-Jews]) the Christon is the dunamin [force, power] and the wisdom of Theos. For the stupid one of Theos is wiser than men and the weak one of Theos is stronger than men. For in your calling, brothers, you see that not many are wise down to flesh; not many are dunatoi; not many are well-born, but Theos selected the stupid of the kosmou in order that He might make the wise ashamed. Theos selected the weak ones of the kosmou in order that He might make ashamed the forcible [strong, powerful]. Theos selected the ignoble and the despised and those not being in order that He might katargeo [render entirely idle, useless] those being, so that no flesh might boast before Him. Now, emergent from Him, you are in Jesus, the Christo, Who was caused to be (to us) wisdom from Theos, also dikaiosune [equity, justification, rightness] and purification and redemption! 

1^st Corinthians 5.9: I write to you (in this letter) not closely and habitually to associate with pornois [male prostitutes] but not entirely to shun all the pornois of this kosmou nor with the greedy nor with plunderers nor with idolaters. Therefore, you might think that I am telling you that you must issue forth emergent from the kosmou. But actually, I write to you not to associate with anyone if he is called a brother! who is either a pornos or greedy or an idolater or abusive or a drunkard or a plunderer. Do not eat with such! For what is it to me to judge those outside the faith? Don't you judge those inside the faith? Theos will judge those outside the faith. You shall exairo [remove] the poneros [hurtful] one from among yourselves. Verse 6: Dares anyone of you (having a matter against another of you) to be judged before the adikeo [unjust] and not before the hagion [holy ones, sacred ones, consecrated ones; saints]? Don't you know that the hagioi will judge the kosmon? And if the kosmos is judged by you, are you unworthy of small judgments? Don’t you know that we will judge aggeloi [messengers, angels]? (I’m not speaking of this present life.) If in fact then, you have judgments in this life, do you seat as judges those being least esteemed in the ekklesia? I say, “Shame on you!” Isn’t in you a wise one? Is not one in your midst who will be able to judge between his brothers? 

Ephesians 6.10: For the rest, my brothers, be empowered in the Kurio and in the might of His strength. Put on the whole armor of Theos for you to be able to stand against the wiles of the diabolou [leader to shame, devil, satyr] because it isn’t us wrestling against flesh and blood, but against the chiefs, against the forces, against the kosmos-rulers of the shadiness of this age; against the pneumatika [spiritual] powers of ponerias [whoring, committing incest, doing non-marital sexual intercourse] above the sky! Because of this, take up the whole armor of Theos in order that you may be able to stand against [oppose] in the ponera [hurtful] day, and having worked out all, to stand. 

1^st Peter 1.17: And if you address, as Father, the One impartially judging down to each one’s work, in fear pass the space of time of your alien residence upon the earth, knowing that you weren’t redeemed with perishable silver or gold, emergent from your empty behavior handed down from fathers but with precious blood (as of an unblemished and unstained lamb), the blood of the Christou. He having been known beforehand (before the depositing [founding] of the kosmou) but revealed at the final space of time via [for the sake of] you; those having pisteuontas via Him into Theos, the One awakening Him emergent from dead and giving glory to Him in order that your pistin [faith] and elpida [expectation, hope] are into Theos. 

1^st John 2.12: I write to you, babes, because your hamartiai [misses of the mark or goal; errors, offences, sins] apheontai [have been sent forth, have been forsaken, have been forgiven] via His name [authority]. I write to you, fathers because you have known the One Who has been from the beginning. I write to you, youths because you have subdued the poneron [hurtful] one. I have written to you, children because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers because you have known the One Who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, youths because you are strong, and the Logos of Theos abides in you, and you have subdued the poneron one. Don’t agapate [unconditionally love] the kosmon nor the things in the kosmo. If anyone agapa the kosmon, the agape of the Father isn’t in him for all that is in the kosmo (the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boasting of life) isn’t emergent from the Father but is emergent from the kosmou. Now, the kosmos and all its lust is being led away [or is going away] but he, doing the thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] of Theos, abides to the age. 

End of Forty-first Lesson

Lesson 40 Amplified – CHARAGMA

 

CHARAGMA 

American: scratch, etching, tattoo, scar, mark; [microchip?]

Hebrew Aramaic: tav 

Some Christians refer to this as the “mark of the beast”. 

Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

Revelation 13.11: And I saw another beast going up emergent from the earth. It was like a lamb and had two horns and spoke like a dragon. And it does all the authority of the first beast in the face of [before] the same. And it makes the earth and those residing in it in order that they should proskunesosi [worship, as a dog licks his master's hand]the first beast (of which was healed its wound of death) and it does megala semeia [signs, indications] in order that it even makes fire [aurora borealis?] come down emergent from the ouranou upon the earth in the face of [before] men. And it causes those residing upon the earth to stray via the semeia which were given it to do (in the face of the first beast) saying to those residing upon the earth to make an eikona [image, likeness, statue, icon] to the beast which has the wound of the knife and lived. And it was given power to give a pneuma [wind, breath, spirit] to the eikoni of the first beast in order that even the eikon of the beast might speak and might make it happen, that as many as might NOT proskunesosi the eikona of the beast in order that they be killed. And it makes all (the mikrous [small, little, tiny, micro] and the megalous [big, large, huge, great] and the wealthy and the paupers and the freemen and the slaves) in order that it may give to them a charagma upon their right hand or upon their forehead and this in order that NO one could buy or sell unless having the charagma or the name of the beast or the number of the name of the same [bar code?]. Here is wisdom. The one having understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and that number is 666. 

Revelation 14.9: And a third aggelos [messenger, angel] followed them, saying in megale phone [sound, tone, noise, voice], “If anyone proskunei the beast and the eikona of the same and receives a charagma upon his forehead or upon his hand, he also shall drink emergent from the wine of the thumou [passion, anger, indignation] of Theos (having been prepared undiluted in the cup of His orges [violent passion, fury, rage, wrath]) and will be tortured in the fire and sulfur in the face of [before] the hagion aggelon and the face of the Lamb and the smoke of their torture goes up to ages of ages and hasn't pause day and night; those proskunountes the beast and the eikona of the same, even anyone who might receive the charagma of the name of the same. Here is a call for the cheerful endurance of the hagion; here are those keeping the commands of Theos and the pistin [faith] of Jesus. 

Revelation 15.2: And I saw like a glassy [transparent] sea having been mixed with fire. And those subduing (emergent from the beast and from the eikonos of the same and emergent from the charagma of the same and emergent from the number of the name of the same) were standing upon the glassy sea having lyres of Theos. And they sing the song [Hebrew cantillation] of Moses (the slave of Theos) and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Megala and wonderful are Your works, Kurie, pantokrator [all-ruling, almighty, omnipotent] Theos. Dikaiai [equitable, just, right] and truthful are Your ways, Sovereign of the Hagion. Who won't fear You? Kurie and glorify Your name because only You are inherently right that all the ethne will arrive and proskunesousin in Your face because Your dikaiomata [equity, justification, rightness] was rendered apparent.”

Revelation 16.2: And the first aggelos went off and poured out his bowl upon the earth and it was caused to be a kakon [worthless] ulcer and poneron [hurtful] to the men having the charagma of the beast and those proskunountas the eikoni of the same.

 

Revelation 19.19: And I saw the beast and the sovereigns of the earth, and their armies being led together to make war amidst the One sitting down upon the white horse and amidst His army. And the beast was seized and amidst [with] this one the pseudoprophetes [false prophets], doing the semeia in the face of [before] the same in [with] which he caused those receiving the charagma of the beast to stray and those proskunountas the eikoni of the same. The two [Both] were thrown (living [alive]) into the Lake of Fire, burning in sulfur. And those remaining were killed in [with] the saber having gone forth emergent from the mouth of the One sitting down upon the white horse. And all the birds were gorged emergent from the flesh of the same. 

Revelation 20.4: And I saw thrones and they that sat down upon them, and judgment was given to them. And the psuchas [souls, lives, psyches, egos] of those having been beheaded via their testimony of Jesus and via the Logon of Theos and which same hadn’t prosekunesan the beast NOR its eikona and hadn’t received the charagma upon their forehead and [nor] upon their hand and they lived and reigned amidst the Christou for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead [those in Hell?] didn't recover life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first anastasis [standing up again, resurrection]. Supremely blest and hagios is the one having a share in the first anastasis. Over these, the second death hasn't authority but, conversely, they will be priests of Theos and of the Christou and will reign amidst Him for a thousand years. 

End of Fortieth Lesson

Lesson 39 Amplified – PENTEKOSTOS

 

PENTEKOSTOS

American transliteration: Day of Pentecost [a Hebrew Feast]

Jewish: Shavuot 

According to Vine’s *, “PENTEKOSTOS, an adjective denoting fiftieth, is used as a noun, with “day” understood, that is the fiftieth day after the Passover, counting from the second day of the Feast.” The Day of Pentekostos was thelemai [decreed by Theos] to be a Feast day. 

Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

Acts 2: Now in the fulfilling of the Day of Pentekostos, they were all unanimous at the same place. Unexpectedly (emergent from the ouranos [sky]) was an echos [noise], just as borne of a violent wind and filled up the whole dwelling where they were sitting. Themselves [They] stared wide-eyed at thoroughly partitioned tongues as of fire. It also sat upon each one of them and they were all filled of the Hagios Pneuma and began to utter words in different glossai, just as the Hagios Pneuma gave to them to enunciate.

Now, there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, pious [devout] men from every ethnos of those under the ouranos. Now, this phone being generated, the populace assembled and were confused because each one heard them speaking his own dialektos. Now, all were amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Lo! aren’t all these speaking Galileans? And how hear we each our own dialektos, in which we were born: Parthians, Medes, Elamites and those inhabiting Mesopotamia; both Judea and Capadocia, Pontus and Asia; both Phrygia and Pamphylia; Egypt and the regions of Libya over against Cyrene and alien-resident Romans; both Jews and proselutoi [non-Jewish converts to Judaism]; Cretans and Arabians. We hear them in our own glossai, articulating the magnificence of Theos.” And they were all astounded and were thoroughly disconcerted, one to another posing the question, “What do you suppose this to be?” But others scornfully posited, “It’s because they are drunk with new wine.”

But Rock (standing with the eleven) raised up his phone and plainly enunciated [declared] to them, “Men! Jews! and all those inhabiting Jerusalem, let this be known to you and take into your ear [listen to] my rhemai. For these men aren’t intoxicated (as you assume) for it is merely the third hour of the day [9 AM]. But this is the event being spoken via the prophetes Joel: ‘And it shall be in the final days,’ says Theos, ‘I will pour forth (from My Hagios Pneuma) upon all flesh and your sons and daughters will propheteuo [before tell, speak under inspiration] and your youths will stare wide-eyed at visions and your elders will dream dreams. And in those days (upon My male slaves and upon My female slaves), I will pour forth from My Hagios Pneuma and they will also propheteuo. 

Joel 2.28: “…It will be afterward I will pour forth My Godesh Ruache [Hagios Pneuma] on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will naba [before tell, speak under inspiration]. Your old will dream dreams. Your youths will see visions. And in those days, on both My male slaves and My female slaves, I will pour forth MY Godesh Ruache. I will give mopheth [wonders, signs, omens] in the sky and on the earth; blood and fire and timarah [pillars, columns] of smoke. The sun will be turned over to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome Day of YHWH. For it will be that all who qara [call out to, appeal to, invoke] the name [authority] of YHWH will malat [be smooth, slippery, escape] for in Mount Tsijon [Zion] and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,” as YHWH has said, “and deliverance among the survivors to whom YHWH shall call out.” 

Acts 4.31: And they having deomai [begged, pled], the place in which they were convened was rocked [shaken] and they were all filled with the Hagios Pneuma and spoke the logos of Theos amidst all-outspokenness [boldness]. 

Today (among Christians) the phenomenon described above is generally called “speaking in tongues”. A large segment of evangelical Christians practice this as a gracious gift from Theos. They consider this to be their personal prayer language, and that the intonations are articulated by the Holy Spirit, within them, using their vocal cords. They use this form of prayer when they feel unable to adequately express themselves or in intercession for another person. Some of them believe that their “tongue” or language is an unknown language Others, of them, believe that the language is used somewhere in the world but unknown to the one blessed with it. Some of them believe that the “tongue” is proof that the speaker has received the “baptism in the Holy Spirit”. 

glassolalia = greek glassa [language]+ greek lalia [talking] 

* Vine’s Amplified Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words by W. E. Vine, published by World Bible Publishers, Inc.; copyright 1991 by World Bible Publishers Inc. 

End of Thirty-ninth Lesson

Lesson 38 Amplified – DIALEKTOS

DIALEKTOS -- DIALEKTOI

American singular: language, dialect -- plural: languages, dialects 

These Koine Greek words are further preamble to what occurred on the Day of Pentecost after our Lord Jesus, the Christos, arose from death. 

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

Acts 1.15: Now, in these days, Rock stood up amidst the matheton [learners, pupils, disciples] (the crowd of the called-together was of about one hundred twenty persons) and said, “Men! brothers! this is to fulfill this Graphe [Scripture, part of Old Testament] (which the Hagios Pneuma foretold via David’s mouth) concerning Judas (the one becoming guide to those arresting Jesus) because being reckoned among us, he (with us) was assigned an allotment of this service. Now therefore, this one himself got a spot [plot, field] emergent from the wages of injustice, and falling headfirst, was caused to be split open in the middle and all his intestines poured forth. It also was caused to be known (to all those residing in Jerusalem), so that field was called (in their own dialekto [in this case Hebrew]), “Akeldama”, which is “Chorion Aimatos” [in Greek, “Field of Blood” in American], for it has been written in the Biblo of Psalms: ‘Cause his hut to be waste and NOT be anyone residing in it,’ and ‘another take his position as overseer.’”

 

PSALM 69.25: ...let their walls [fortress, house] become wasted and not let their tents become dwellings.

 

PSALM 109.8: ... let another take his official visitation. 

Acts 2.5: Now, there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, pious [devout] men from every ethnous [nation, race, non-Jew, Gentile] of those under the ouranon [the sky, the heavens]. Now, these phones [sounds, tones, noises, voices] being generated, the populace assembled and were confused because each one heard them speaking his own dialekto. Now, all were amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “LO! aren’t all these speaking Galileans? and how hear we each our own dialekto in which we were born: Parthians, Medes, Elamites and those inhabiting Mesopotamia, both Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the regions of Libya over against Cyrene and alien-resident Romans; both Jews and proselutoi [non-Jewish converts to Judaism], Cretans, and Arabians. We hear them (in our own glossais) articulating the magnificence of Theos.” 

Acts 21.37: Both of them being about to be introduced into the fortress, Paul said to the chiliarch, “Is it all right for me to say something to you?” Now, he said, “Do you know Greek? Then you aren’t the Egyptian who (before these days) caused a disturbance and had been leading out into the wasteland four thousand men of the dagger-men [Jewish fanatics outlawed by the Romans]?” Now, Paul said, “I in fact am a Jew, a Tarsian of Cilicia, a citizen of a NOT ignoble city. Now, I beg you, allow me to speak toward the people.” Now, he having allowed the same (standing upon the staircase), Paul swayed down his hands to the people. Now, much hushing [Shhhhing!] being caused to be, he addressed them in the Hebrew dialekto, saying, “Men! brothers! and fathers! now, hear my defense to you.” Now, hearing that he spoke the Hebrew dialekto to them, they presented [exhibited] silence. 

Acts 26.9: Accordingly in fact, I thought to myself it was necessary to practice much opposite to the name of Jesus (the Nazarene) which I also did in Jerusalem. I both took to confinement many of the hagion [holy ones, sacred ones, consecrated ones; saints], receiving the privilege [authority] from beside the chief priests, and cast my ballot for their being done away [killed]. And many times (down all the synagogues) avenging [punishing] them, I forced them to superabundantly blasphemein [speak irreverently, speak profanely; blaspheme]. I both raged at them and pursued them as far as also to the outside cities (in which endeavor I was also traveling to Damascus, Syria) with authority and permission from beside the chief priests. At midday down the road, King Agrippa, I saw (from ouranothen above) a greater brightness than the sun illuminating all around me and those traveling with me. Now, all of us having fallen down to the earth, I heard a phone speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew dialekto, “Saul! Saul! why do you pursue [persecute] ME? It is tough for you to stubbornly dig in your heels against the prods.” 

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