A Christian Festival

[CrowCross]

A column of soldiers appear as a river marching through the desert.
Revelation 12:15
Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.

When I read commentary on this verse I get several identifications of what the waters are. Everything from words of power, to the demonic, to nations to a people....

To say this "river" is the lake of fire seems to be a stretch.

 

[CherubRam]

When I read commentary on this verse I get several identifications of what the waters are. Everything from words of power, to the demonic, to nations to a people....

To say this "river" is the lake of fire seems to be a stretch.

The word "water" is being used as a parable. A lake is a body of "water."


Revelation 17:15.
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.


Judgment and Fire
Isaiah 4:4
Yahwah will wash away the filth from the women of Zion; He will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of fire, a spirit of judgment.




This is a short list of the word FIRE being used to mean JUDGEMENT.

Psalm 78:21
When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,

Psalm 79:5
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 89:46
How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 104:4
He makes [winds / spirits] his messengers, flames of fire his servants.

Isaiah 4:4
The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

Isaiah 66:15
See, the LORD is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Isaiah 66:16
For with fire and with his sword the LORD will execute judgment on all people, and many will be those slain by the LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:22. For a fire has been kindled by my wrath,
one that burns to the realm of sheol below.

Amos 7:4
This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.

Hebrews 10:27
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

2 Peter 3:7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.



The word "fire and lightning" is often used as a parable to mean judgment. In one place the word "coal" means judgment. And where there is smoke there is fire, so the word "smoke" can also be used as a parable to mean judgment.


KJV
Revelation 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Where there is smoke there is fire.

Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Revelation 20:14
And death and (hell / grave) were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.


If Hell is done away with in the second death, then how can there be anyone to torment?

 

[CrowCross]

The word "water" is being used as a parable. A lake is a body of "water."

Water can represent several things. for instance....Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ Luke 7:38.
i don't think the waters here represent peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.

 

[CherubRam]

Water can represent several things. for instance....Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ Luke 7:38.
i don't think the waters here represent peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.

Understanding the parables in the bible requires a spirit of discernment. It is a rare gift from God.


"Living Water" is parabolic for Yahwah, The Holy Spirit.
Jeremiah 2:13
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 17:13
Yahwah, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken Yahwah, the spring of living water.

Zechariah 14:8
On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.

John 4:10
Yahshua answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

John 4:11
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

John 7:38
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

 

[David Lamb]

Many of the New Testament writings were burned, so we do not know if it was mentioned. According to the Old Testament the nations are to keep it.

What is your evidence for that having happened, and for us having to rely (according to you) on a partial New Testament?

 

[David Lamb]

Yahwah's name was in the original New Testament scriptures

After killing Hebrew Christians, the Jews would take the New Testament scripture written in Hebrew, and carefully cut the name of God out. Then they would place the divine name in a safe place to keep. Following that, they then would burn the remainder of the scrolls in a fire. Rabbi Yose who lived during the second century AD states that, "One cuts out the reference to the Divine Name which are in them [the New Testament writings] and stores them away, and the rest burns." One of his characteristic sayings is, "He who proclaimed the coming of the Messiah,[John] and he who hated scholars [Yahshua] and his disciples; and that false prophet and those slanderers, will have no part in the future world." According to Wilhelm Bacher this was directed against the Hebrew Christians. And so it is an established fact then, that the Disciples of Christ did in fact write the Holy Name of God into the original New Testament.

The New Testament was written originally in Greek not Hebrew. And what biblical basis do you have that Jesus (or Yahshua, as you call Him) hated scholars?

 

[CherubRam]

The New Testament was written originally in Greek not Hebrew. And what biblical basis do you have that Jesus (or Yahshua, as you call Him) hated scholars?

The New Testament was first written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and then Greek, in that order.
Hebrew and Aramaic are much alike and that was basic in Israel. It was later that Paul wrote in Greek.

Matthew 23:13
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Matthew 23:15
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of Gehenna as you are.

Matthew 23:16
“Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’

Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Matthew 23:25
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Matthew 23:29
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

Matthew 23:33
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to Gehenna?

• John 5:2
  Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
  
  
• John 19:13
  When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
  
  
• John 19:17
  Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).
  
  
• John 19:20
  Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
  
  
• John 20:16
  Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
  
  
• Acts 21:40
  After receiving the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic:
  
  
• Acts 22:2
  When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet. Then Paul said:
  
  
• Acts 26:14
  We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

• John 5:2
  Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
  
  
• John 19:13
  When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
  
  
• John 19:17
  They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha:
  
  
• John 19:20
  This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek.
  
  
• John 20:16
  Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turneth herself, and saith unto him in Hebrew, Rabboni; which is to say, Teacher.
  
  
• Acts 21:40
  And when he had given him leave, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with the hand unto the people; and when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, saying,
  
  
• Acts 22:2
  And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,
  
  
• Acts 26:14
  And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

 

[David Lamb]

The New Testament was first written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and then Greek, in that order.
Hebrew and Aramaic are much alike and that was basic in Israel. It was later that Paul wrote in Greek.

Matthew 23:13
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Matthew 23:15
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of Gehenna as you are.

Matthew 23:16
“Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’

Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Matthew 23:25
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Matthew 23:29
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

Matthew 23:33
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to Gehenna?

• John 5:2
  Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
  
  
• John 19:13
  When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
  
  
• John 19:17
  Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).
  
  
• John 19:20
  Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
  
  
• John 20:16
  Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
  
  
• Acts 21:40
  After receiving the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic:
  
  
• Acts 22:2
  When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet. Then Paul said:
  
  
• Acts 26:14
  We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

• John 5:2
  Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
  
  
• John 19:13
  When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
  
  
• John 19:17
  They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha:
  
  
• John 19:20
  This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek.
  
  
• John 20:16
  Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turneth herself, and saith unto him in Hebrew, Rabboni; which is to say, Teacher.
  
  
• Acts 21:40
  And when he had given him leave, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with the hand unto the people; and when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, saying,
  
  
• Acts 22:2
  And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,
  
  
• Acts 26:14
  And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

If the New Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic there would have been no point in those verses you quote, such as
John 5:2
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.

I have never heard or read that the whole New Testament was originally written in Hebrew/Aramaic. I came across this site: Was the New Testament Written in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek? It includes the following paragraph:

"With the conquest of Alexander the Great in the late fourth century, Greek gained prominence as the common language of government, trade, and elite culture throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, including Judea and Galilee. By the third century BC at the latest, the Jewish expatriate community in Egypt had largely lost the ability to speak Hebrew and/or Aramaic, and so they translated the books of the Hebrew Bible into their then-native Greek. These translations—collectively called the “Septuagint”—became the main Scriptures used in the Jewish diaspora, the Jewish people living outside of the land of Israel. Many Jewish works from the diaspora, as well as some from Judea, were also written in Greek in this period."

 

[CherubRam]

If any original New Testament writings are found they are destroyed immediately.

 

[David Lamb]

If any original New Testament writings are found they are destroyed immediately.

And your authority for that is what?

 

[CherubRam]

If the New Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic there would have been no point in those verses you quote, such as
John 5:2
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.

I have never heard or read that the whole New Testament was originally written in Hebrew/Aramaic. I came across this site: Was the New Testament Written in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek? It includes the following paragraph:

"With the conquest of Alexander the Great in the late fourth century, Greek gained prominence as the common language of government, trade, and elite culture throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, including Judea and Galilee. By the third century BC at the latest, the Jewish expatriate community in Egypt had largely lost the ability to speak Hebrew and/or Aramaic, and so they translated the books of the Hebrew Bible into their then-native Greek. These translations—collectively called the “Septuagint”—became the main Scriptures used in the Jewish diaspora, the Jewish people living outside of the land of Israel. Many Jewish works from the diaspora, as well as some from Judea, were also written in Greek in this period."

New Testament in Hebrew

Yahshua understood Hebrew, although in his everyday life may have been conducted in Aramaic. The first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark records Yahshua using Aramaic terms and phrases. In Luke 4:16, he was shown reading Hebrew from the Bible at a synagogue.

Luke 23:38. KJ21
And a superscription also was written over Him in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew: This Is The King Of The Jews.

The Jews in Jerusalem and Judaea in the period from 400 BCE to 150 CE spoke Mishnaic Hebrew.

“Matthew put down the words of the Lord in the Hebrew language, and others have translated them, each as best he could.”-Papias, bishop of Hierapolis, c. 150 A.D.

"Matthew, indeed, produced his Gospel written among the Hebrews in their own dialect.”– Irenaeus (120-202 A.D.)
Bishop of Lions, France.

“The first Gospel composed in the Hebrew language, was written by Matthew…for those who came to faith from Judaism.”
Origen (225 A.D.)

“Matthew had first preached to the Hebrews, and when he was about to go to others also, he transmitted his Gospel in writing in his
native language”
(Ecclesiastical History III 24, 6)

“Matthew collected and wrote the oracles in the Hebrew language”
(Ecclesiastical History, III, 39, 16.)

“both the Church Fathers as well as the recently
discovered Dead Sea Scrolls state quite clearly
and without any equivocation that Hebrew WAS the
language spoken and written at the time of the
Messiah and his Disciples.”
-Hebrew New Testament
by, Dr. D. Briggs, Ph.D., Walden University

“the issue of the New Testament being written
in Greek or Aramaic was non-existent prior to
the Fourth or Fifth Century A.D. It has been
a rather modern theory based upon anti-semitism
which is a hatred of anything Jewish.”
-Hebrew New Testament
by, Dr. D. Briggs, Ph.D., Walden University

“There were debates concerning the destruction of the New Testament scrolls, because they contained the divine Name of God in
Hebrew (Yahwah).” The debate clearly documents that the gospels were written in Hebrew.
The Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat 116a),The Jerusalem Talmud (Shabbat 15c),
And the Tosefta (Shabbat 13:5).

Yahwah's name was in the original New Testament scriptures​

After killing Hebrew Christians, the Jews would take the New Testament scripture written in Hebrew, and carefully cut the name of God out. Then they would place the divine name in a safe place to keep. Following that, they then would burn the remainder of the scrolls in a fire. Rabbi Yose who lived during the second century AD states that, "One cuts out the reference to the Divine Name which are in them [the New Testament writings] and stores them away, and the rest burns." One of his characteristic sayings is, "He who proclaimed the coming of the Messiah,[John] and he who hated scholars [Yahshua] and his disciples; and that false prophet and those slanderers, will have no part in the future world." According to Wilhelm Bacher this was directed against the Hebrew Christians. And so it is an established fact then, that the Disciples of Christ did in fact write the Holy Name of God into the original New Testament.

 

[CherubRam]

Note: Second century BC Aramaic was still in use in the first century AD according to carbon dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

 

[Mr GLee]

The word "water" is being used as a parable. A lake is a body of "water.

Water just blood, both metaphors used in parables to represent the pouring out of the unseen Holy Spirit of Christ in jeopardy of his own spirit life (power) Blood and water interchangeable.

Deuteronomy 32 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. ;My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Water in all forms used to include the pouring out of His Holy Spirit as if sweat. to show the father and son are working

Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was "as it were" great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

Mark 7:33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

Water blood = the pouring out of the Spirit of Christ on dying flesh

 

[CherubRam]

Water just blood, both metaphors used in parables to represent the pouring out of the unseen Holy Spirit of Christ in jeopardy of his own spirit life (power) Blood and water interchangeable.

Deuteronomy 32 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. ;My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Water in all forms used to include the pouring out of His Holy Spirit as if sweat. to show the father and son are working

Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was "as it were" great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

Mark 7:33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

Water blood = the pouring out of the Spirit of Christ on dying flesh

Blood represents sacrifice. It also has parabolic meaning for pollution or cleansing, depending on circumstances.

You need to keep in mind that parabolic words are also used in a literal sense.

 

[Mr GLee]

Blood represents sacrifice. It also has parabolic meaning for pollution or cleansing, depending on circumstances.

You need to keep in mind that parabolic words are also used in a literal sense.

Yes, the life of the dying flesh is in the blood, but that spirit life is not seen.

Life without the spirit is dead; The lifeless blood must be poured out so it can return to dust ,

A living sacrifice suffering, pouring out life

The Spirit of Christ poured out His Holy Spirit on dying flesh and blood as water in jeopardy of His own Spirit life.

 

[eclipseEventSigns]

The New Testament was written originally in Greek not Hebrew. And what biblical basis do you have that Jesus (or Yahshua, as you call Him) hated scholars?

Although @CherubRam has some issues with accuracy of facts, the view that the New Testament was not originally in Greek is actually valid. Look at my previous posts in this thread where I explain how he inadvertently proved this very point by something he misquoted.
Btw, Josephus is our best source for evidence that the New Testament was in Aramaic as he plainly states that the vast majority of Jews of that time did NOT know Greek. Actually Josephus had to act as translator between the Romans and the Jews inside Jerusalem in order to broker the surrender negotiations because the Jews did not know Greek and the Romans did not know Aramaic.

 

[Josheb]

Festival of Tabernacles, Booths, Sukkot

Deuteronomy 31:10
Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles,

Zechariah 14:16
Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, Yahwah Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:18
If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. Yahwah will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:19
This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.

John 7:2-10
2 But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, 3 Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. 4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him.
6 Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. 8 You go to the festival. I am not[a] going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.” 9 After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.
10 However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret.

The Festival of Booths, also known as Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles, is a seven-day Jewish holiday that celebrates the harvest and commemorates the Israelites' exodus from Egypt:
The festival begins on the 15th day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.

The 14th day of Tishri in the Hebrew calendar is the beginning of Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths. On this day, Jews prepare for the festival by building, decorating, and covering their succas, and by acquiring the other three species and an esrog.
Tishri is a month of celebration, transition, uprooting, justice, and fruitfulness. The name Tishri means "beginning" and was originally used to refer to the 7th month after Israel's exile in Babylon.

....and the Christological significance of all of that is........?

 

[eclipseEventSigns]

....and the Christological significance of all of that is........?

There is no command to observe the Feasts of the Lord for Christians. It is left to how you feel you want to worship Yahweh best. However, you might as well start learning all you can about them since some of the Feasts will be observed by everyone in the coming Day of Yahweh - the final millennial kingdom. And it's very likely only less than 10 years away.

 

[Mr GLee]

Although @CherubRam has some issues with accuracy of facts, the view that the New Testament was not originally in Greek is actually valid. Look at my previous posts in this thread where I explain how he inadvertently proved this very point by something he misquoted.
Btw, Josephus is our best source for evidence that the New Testament was in Aramaic as he plainly states that the vast majority of Jews of that time did NOT know Greek. Actually Josephus had to act as translator between the Romans and the Jews inside Jerusalem in order to broker the surrender negotiations because the Jews did not know Greek and the Romans did not know Aramaic.

I would offer. .

There are errors in the Greek. I can think of two that are surely misinterpretations just by looking at the context . Apostle and Sabbath .

Josephus like the church fathers has nothing to with bible interpretations. We have the same fact checking source of Christ's faith just as when they were first delivered from above

God warns us of those who say we do need dying mankind to teach us, guide us and comfort . (1 John2)

Calling them antichrists, false prophets ,false apostles (sent messenger's) as angels. . they must call . .patron saints. A legion of disembodied spirit gods as workers with a familiar spirit .

Saving Faith. Christ's labor of love working in us. It does not come from hearing the commentaries of dying mankind. We can learn but are never the source of faith (Christ in us)

People fail in that way exulting venerating sent messenger apostles above the word of God .

Apostles messengers, errant boys, Fed X, Western Union, UPS turning them into angels a fake word called the patron saints. . invisible spirits

The Greek angelus is "messenger"( apostle) The fake word angel was not even coined until the th11th century .

The earliest known use of the noun "angel" is in the Old English period (pre-1150)

The whole idea Apostolic succession of dying man or Apostle creed anything using the word Apostle as some sort of authority anything that would add to messenger. sent one.

violating the law (Deuteronomy 4:2) not to change the meaning of one word it can change all the commandments

In that way "born again Able" the second born ,the first apostle and martyr Through him the born again seed Christ was replaced with another Enos second born in order to emphasize a man must be born from above .It was then when born agin men to called out to Him not seen .

Genesis 4: 25-26 ;And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.;And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: "then began men" to call upon the name of the Lord.

Can't call on God unless you are a born again child. Jesus said wonder not. but rather believe prophecy .

Its Christ in us working to both reveal his powerful will and empower us to do it to His good pleasure .

No need to use ones imagination of a invisible creation.

Its a legion of angels (patron saints) that does that kind of work

 

[Josheb]

There is no command to observe the Feasts of the Lord for Christians. It is left to how you feel you want to worship Yahweh best.

I was thinking about the festivals this morning. Can you cite and example in the epistolary wherein it is reported the New Testament era Christians practiced any of the Jewish festivals (besides Passover, which they turned into the Lord's Supper)?

However, you might as well start learning all you can about them since some of the Feasts will be observed by everyone in the coming Day of Yahweh - the final millennial kingdom.

Hogwash, and hugely inconsistent with the previous statement.

And it's very likely only less than 10 years away.

More hogwash.