Category: Bible
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Advent 2022: Week Two, Tuesday, Revelation 1:9-16
Jesus appears to John in the midst of heavily symbolic imagery. 9. I, John, your brother, sharer in the kingdom, and by the patience of Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus. 10. I was in Spirit on the Lord’s day when I heard…
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Advent 2022: Week Two, Monday, Revelation 1:1-8
Jesus is coming, and John wants you to know it. 1. God gave the revelation of Messiah Jesus to his servant John to show his servants what must happen soon. He sent it by his angels. 2. This is what he testified — what he saw — the word of God and the testimony of…
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Advent 2022: Week One, Saturday, Jude 17-25
The first week of my translations for Advent 2022 finish with this beautiful doxology from Jude. 17. But you, dear ones, must remember the words already spoken by the apostles of our Lord Messiah Jesus. 18. For they kept saying to you that in the last times there will be scoffers led away by their…
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Advent 2022: Friday, Jude 1-16
If you thought Peter was brutal, wait until you read Jude. Note, the Greek rendering is Judas, but historically he is known as Jude. I suppose that is to keep him from getting mixed up with that other guy, the one we don’t talk about. 1. Jude [Judas], a slave of Messiah Jesus, brother of…