Revelation Chapter 6

 

Revelation Chapter 6

Introduction:

Chapter 6 is the opening of the first six of the seven seals of The Scroll: seal 1 is the rider of the white horse with a crown and a bow who conquers; seal 2 is the rider of the red horse with a sword who takes peace from the earth and causes people to kill each other; seal 3 is the rider of the black horse with a pair of scales who causes inflation; seal 4 is the rider of the pallid horse named death who is followed by hell, they kill one-fourth of humanity by plagues, famine, war and by wild animals; seal 5 is the martyrs put to death for their witness and proclaiming The Word; seal 6 is a great earthquake, the sun turned black and the moon blood red, stars fall from heaven to the earth and the sky recedes like a scroll rolled up, mountains and islands are moved and all peoples call out to be hidden from The LAMB’s wrath.

:1-2 Now I saw when The Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!*” I looked and beheld a white horse** its rider had a bow***; a crown was given to him and he went out conquering.

                John saw The Lamb (JESUS) open one of the seals and heard one of  the living creatures say in a commanding voice Go or Come, (this happens in verses 1, 3, 5 and 7 where the four horses and their riders are revealed) some believe that the living creature was telling John to go or to come and see what was happening. I do not believe that the living creature was speaking to John but to the horses and their riders. I believe that the living creature was commanding the horse and rider to come or to go forth, this may be the start of the seven years of The Great Tribulation that GOD is going to bring on the earth; even though the effects of these horses and riders have been rampaging over the earth since the flood. The rider of the white horse has authority (a crown) and power (a bow**) to conquer.

*“Come!” - In the KJV and NKJV it says, “Come and see.” The Greek word used for come can mean come or go (Strong’s Greek Dictionary of The New Testament) “and see” is not in the earliest texts. In the TLV it says “Go!” with a note that “and see” is added by some translations; in the CJB it says “Come!”; in the NIV it says “Come!”

** Heavenly horses are mentioned several times in the Bible, 2 Kings 2:11, 6:15-17; Zechariah 1:8, 6:1-8; Revelation 19:11-14.

*** Bow – I heard a teaching about the bow in this verse and with no mention of arrows that it was not meant as a weapon (What?). If you have a rifle or pistol and you are going hunting or shooting do say I am going to get my gun and bullets and go hunting or shooting? No, the bullets are assumed! The arrows are the bullets of the bow, many times in the scriptures the bow is mentioned as a weapon without mentioning the arrows and a few time the arrows of GOD are mentioned without a bow, you can hit people with the bow or stab people with the arrows, but they just work better together than alone (Genesis 27:3, 48:22; Joshua 24:12; Psalm 21:12, 38:1-2, 45:4-5).

:3-4 When He opened the second seal I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” (In the NKJV in the notes for verse 3 it is noted that some translations do not say, “and see.”) Another horse, fiery red, went out and its rider was given a great sword to take peace from the earth and that people should kill (murder and wars) one another.

            This rider has power to take peace from the world; for thousands of years there have been places in the earth where there was no peace and the number of places in the earth where there is no peace is increasing. The sword is a weapon of maiming and death and it is used to keep people in fear, therefore they have no peace.

:5-6 When He opened the third seal I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” so I looked and beheld a black horse and its rider had a pair of scales (balances) in his hand. I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures (whose?) saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”

                This is inflation, in some countries today this is the prevailing wage, a meal for a day’s work. Inflation is from greed!

:7-8 When He opened the fourth seal I heard the fourth living creature say, “Come!” So I looked and I beheld a pale (plaid or greenish) horse and its rider was named Death, and Hell followed it. Authority (power) was given them over a quarter of the earth to kill with sword (war), hunger (famine), death (disease) and by the beasts (pestilence) of the earth.

                The sword does not only represent war, but murder; hunger is not just from a lack of food but also from poor quality food, or food that is contaminated; death does not come only from disease but accidents; beasts of the earth are not just wild animals but insects, viruses and microorganisms.

All four of these judgments have been happening since the grandchildren of Noah started to spread over the face of the earth; especially after GOD confused their language (2 Chronicles 7:13-14; Ezekiel 5:11-12; Jeremiah 15:1-3; Matthew 24:6-7).

:9-11 When He opened the fifth seal I saw under The Altar the souls of those who had been slain for The Word of GOD and for the testimony they held (2 Timothy 1:8; Hebrews 11:39-40; Revelation 1:9, 12:11, 20:4). They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long LORD, Holy and True, until You Judge and Avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth (Exodus 2:23-25; Joel 1:13-14; Matthew 7:7-11; Revelation 11:16-18)?” Then a White robe (Revelation 7:9, 19:14) was given to each of them and it was said (by Whom?) to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.

                People have been killed for their Faith and Obedience to GOD, again since the grandchildren of Noah spread out over the face of the earth, possibly even before the flood.

:12-17 I looked when He opened the sixth seal and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair; and the whole moon became like blood. The stars of the heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a great wind. Then the sky receded (or split apart) as a scroll when it is rolled up (Isaiah 34:4; 2 Peter 3:7-13); and every mountain and island was moved out of its place (Joel 2:10-11, 30-31, 3:14-16; Matthew 24:29-31). The kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every freeman hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains, “Fall on us and hide us from the Face of Him Who sits on The Throne (Psalm 45:6; Acts 1:; Revelation 3:21, 20:11) and from The Wrath of The LAMB! For the Great Day of His wrath has come and who is able to stand (Psalm 2:2-5; Isaiah 2:10-12, 20-21; Luke 23:30; Revelation 11:15-19, 16:17-21)?”

                This sounds like The Last Day; The Day CHRIST returns to establish His thousand year reign over the nations with a Rod of iron (Psalm 45:6); but there is one more seal in chapter 8 (this is one of the things that confuses people when they read the Revelation. Chapter 7 would fit better before chapter 14, but this is the order in which things were revealed to John.

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Works And Faith!

 

Works And Faith!

 

John 10:31-39 JESUS’ Works show He Is GOD!

“Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. JESUS answered them, ‘Many Good Works I have shown you from My Father; for which of those Works do you stone Me?’ The Jews answered Him, saying, ‘For a Good Work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy, and because You being a Man make Yourself  GOD.’ JESUS answered them, ‘Is it not written in your Law, “I said, ‘You are gods.’”? If He called them gods, to whom The Word of GOD came (and The scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him Whom The Father Sanctified and Sent into the world, “You are blaspheming,” because I said, “I Am The Son of GOD”? If I do not do the Works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe The Works, that you may know and believe that The Father is in Me, and I in Him.’ Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.”

 

Ephesians 2:8-10 – Faith comes from GOD not from our Works!

“For by Grace you have been Saved through Faith, and that not of yourselves; it is The Gift of GOD, not of Works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His Workmanship created in CHRIST JESUS for Good Works, which GOD prepared before hand that we should walk in them.”

Philippians 2:12-16 – We have to Work to maintain our Salvation!

“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not in my presence only but now much more in my absence, Work out your own Salvation with Fear and Trembling; for it is GOD Who Works in you both to Will and to Do for His Good Pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become Blameless and Harmless Children of GOD without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you Shine as Lights in the world, Holding Fast The Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in The Day of CHRST that I have not Run in Vain or Labored in vain.”

James 1:19-27 – Be Doers of The Word!

“So then my beloved brethren, let every man be Swift to Hear, Slow to Speak, Slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce The Righteousness of GOD. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and abundance of wickedness, and receive with Meekness the Implanted Word, which is able to Save your souls. But be Doers of The Word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of The Word and not a Doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the Perfect Law of Liberty and Continues in It and is not a forgetful hearer but a Doer of The Work, this one will be Blessed in What he Does. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and Undefiled Religion before GOD and The Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”

James 2:14-26 – Faith without Works is Dead!

“What does it profit my brethren, if someone says he has Faith but does not have Works? Can Faith Save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Depart in Peace, be warmed and filled.’ But you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also Faith by itself if it does not have Works, is dead. But someone will say, ‘You have Faith and I have Works.’ Show me your Faith without your works and I will show you my Faith by my Works. For you believe there is One GOD; you do well, even the demons believe – and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without Works is dead? Was not Abraham our father Justified for Works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that Faith was Working together with his Works and by Works Faith was made complete? And The Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘Abraham Believed GOD, and it was accounted to him for Righteousness.’ And he was called the friend of GOD. You see then that a man is Justified by Works and not by Faith only. Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also Justified by Works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so Faith without Works is dead also.”

 

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Revelation Chapter 5

 

Revelation Chapter 5 

Introduction:

Chapter 5 is the Revelation of the scroll with seven seals that only The LAMB that was slain and is Alive is worthy to open them. So the four living creatures and the twenty-four Elders worshiped Him with harps and bowls of incense which are the prayers of the Saints, along with tens of thousands of angels.

:1 “And I saw in the right hand of Him Who sat on The Throne a Scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals (Ezekiel 2:9-10; Isaiah 29:11-12).

:2-5 Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, ‘Who is Worthy to open The Scroll and to loose it seals?’ And no one in Heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open The Scroll or to look at It. So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll or to look at It. But one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep, Behold, The Lion of The Tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:8-10), The root of David (Isaiah 11:1, 10) has prevailed to open The scroll and to lose Its seven seals.’

:6-7 And I looked and Behold, in the midst of the Throne and the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb (John 1:29) as though it had been slain (1 Peter 1:18-21), having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of GOD sent out into all the earth (Zechariah 4:8-10). Then He came and took The Scroll out of the right hand of Him Who sat on The Throne (Isaiah 6:1).

:8-10 Now when He had taken The scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before The Lamb (Revelation 19:4), each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints (Revelation 8:3-4). And they sang a new song, saying (Revelation 14:1-4), ‘You are Worthy to take The Scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain and have Redeemed us to GOD by Your Blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. And have made us kings and priests (Exodus 19:6; Revelation 1:5-6) to our GOD; and we shall reign on the earth.’

:11-14 Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels around The Throne, the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice: ‘Worthy is The Lamb Who was slain To receive Power and Riches and Wisdom, and Strength and Honor and Glory and Blessing!’ And every creature that is in Heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them (Psalm 145:21; Philippians 2:9-11), I heard saying: ‘Blessing and Honor and Glory and Power be to Him Who sits on The Throne (1 Chronicles 29:10-12; Revelation 20:11), and to the Lamb forever and Ever!’ Then the four living creatures said, ‘Amen!’ and the twenty-four elders fell down and worshipped Him Who Lives Forever and Ever.”

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The Redeemed Are One People!

 

The Redeemed Are One People!

Ephesians 1-4

 

Here is the theme of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians and therefore to All Believers in JESUS CHRIST! Ephesians 1:4-6 “Just as He Chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that We should be Holy and without blame before Him in Love, having Predestined us to Adoption as Sons by JESUS CHRIST to Himself, according to the Good Pleasure of His Will, to the Praise of The Glory of His Grace, by which He Made Us Accepted in the Beloved.”

Jew and Gentile as One Body in JESUS CHRIIST!

 

The Beloved are the Redeemed People (Jews – Deuteronomy 33:12; Psalm 60:4-5, 108:5-6, 127:1-2; Isaiah 5:1-7; Romans 11:26-28) with whom GOD made an Eternal Covenant that is still active and in force today and will be Eternally! That is The Old Covenant with Abraham and his descendants. [JESUS – Matthew 3:17, 12:18; Mark 9:7] Who is The Lamb of GOD Who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29, 35, 17:24). {Church – Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:2-4}, and The New Covenant with those Jews (Acts 3:24-26) and Gentiles who Believe in JESUS CHRIST (Acts 13:22-23; John 3:16-17; Romans 1:16-17)!

 

This is Paul’s teaching; remember Paul started out as a hater of JESUS CHRIST! He believed in GOD’s separation between Israel and all other people groups. He was raised in Jerusalem at the feet of a renowned Pharisee, Gamaliel, by his own claim he was a Pharisee among Pharisees, ahead of his peers in faith and practice of the Torah (Philippians 3:4-6); persecuting the Believers (Acts 22:17-20) until he met JESUS on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-30). So he understood the two faiths (Judaism and The Way [Christianity]) becoming one in JESUS CHRIST The Messiah.

 

Ephesians 2:11-18, “Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh –who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands– that at that time you were without CHRIST, being aliens from the commonwealth (natural state) of Israel and strangers from The Covenants of Promise, having no Hope and without GOD in the world. But now in CHRIST JESUS you who were once far off have been brought near by The Blood of CHRIST.”

GOD raised up Israel to be a nation that showed GOD’s Glory, Grace and Power to the nations of the world. But they failed as was predicted by GOD Who Crucified CHRIST before the foundation of the world (John 17:24; 1 Peter 1:19-20; Revelation 13:8).

“For He himself is our Peace, Who has made both One and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, that is, the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances, so as to Create in himself One New Man from the Two, thus making Peace, and that He might reconcile them Both to GOD in One Body through the Cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and Preached Peace to you who were afar off (Gentiles) and to those who were near (Israel). For through Him we Both have Access by One SPIRIT to The Father (Matthew 5:17-20; Hebrews 8:7-13).”

 

Ephesians 3:1-6 “For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of CHRIST JESUS for you Gentiles – if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the Grace of GOD which was given to me for you,…that the Gentiles should be Fellow Heirs, of the Same Body and Partakers of His Promise in CHRIST through the Gospel,”

                We are One Body in CHRIST JESUS!

 

There are some Christians who believe that The Church (The Body of CHRIST in the earth) replaces Israel (replacement theology) but that is false! Paul declares that there is only One Body in Ephesians 4:4-6, “There is One Body and One SPIRIT, just as you were Called in One Hope of your Calling; One LORD, One Faith, One Baptism; One GOD and Father of All, Who is above All, and through All, and in you All.”

GOD’s Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is Eternal, that means it is not complete or expired or fulfilled and it will not be completed until the whole creation is judged by fire and The New Heaven, Earth and Jerusalem are revealed (2 Peter 3:1-13;  Revelation 20:11-22:7).

 

Ephesians 4:7-16 “And He gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the Saints for the Work of the Ministry, for the Edifying (Building up) of the Body of CHRIST, till we All come in the Unity of the Faith and of the Knowledge of the Son of GOD, to a Perfect Man, to the Measure of the Stature of The Fullness of CHRIST; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, Speaking The Truth in Love, may Grow up in All Things into Him Who is the Head–CHRIST–from Whom The Whole Body , Joined and Knit Together by what Every Joint Supplies, according to the Effective Working by Which Every Part Does Its Share, causes Growth of the Body for the Edifying of Itself in Love.”

There is only one Body of JESUS CHRIST, it is all who Believe in JESUS as the Son of GOD and Confess that GOD Raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9-10).

 

Ephesians 4:17-24 “This I say, therefore, and testify in The LORD that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind…and that you put on The New Man which was Created according to GOD, in True Righteousness and Holiness.”

                The Call of Unity is the Call of Repentance, we all who Believe in JESUS CHRIST must stop sinning and live a Righteous (Repentant) life, Holy (Dedicated) to GOD (Ephesians 4 :25-5:21).

Psalm 133!

 

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Follow JESUS!

 

Follow JESUS! 

Luke 9:57-62 “Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, ‘LORD, I will follow You wherever You go.’ And JESUS said to him, ‘Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.’ Then He said to another, ‘Follow Me.’ but he said, ‘LORD, let me first go and bury my father.’ JESUS said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and Preach The Kingdom of GOD.’ And another also said, ‘LORD, I will follow You but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.’ But JESUS said to him, ‘No one having put his hand to the plow  and looking back is fit for The Kingdom of GOD.’”

To the first one who volunteered to follow JESUS, JESUS told him a little of what it would be like, there would be a cost in life to walk with JESUS; the Scriptures do not tell us if he decided to lay down his life to follow JESUS.

The second one, JESUS asked him to be a disciple, but he made an excuse. The Scriptures do not tell us if his father was at that time dead, or just old and dying. JESUS told him to lay down his life for the Kingdom of GOD and let the dead (those who reject JESUS) bury themselves. We are not told if the man laid down his life to follow JESUS.

The third man said he would follow JESUS but he wanted to go and tell his family what he was doing. JESUS told him he must not look back at his old life but lay down his life for The Kingdom of GOD. The Scriptures do not tell us if he followed JESUS.

JESUS says to us all, “No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of GOD.” He is upfront in The Gospels telling us there is a cost to follow Him; loss, rejection, persecution, trials and tribulations. He also tells us that we have to “lay down our life, take up our cross and follow (obey) Him (Mark 8:34-38).

Oswald Chambers says, “When once The call of GOD comes, begin to go and never stop going.”

“Seek First The Kingdom of GOD and His Righteousness and all these things will be added to you!” Matthew 6:33

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Righteousness

 

Righteousness!

The videos are Part 1 The Old Testament and Part 2 The New Testament 

What is righteousness and how do we live in righteousness?

JESUS told us to “seek first the Kingdom of GOD and His Righteousness” (Matthew 6:33), so how do we seek GOD’s Righteousness?

I have talked about Holiness, what Holiness is and that GOD has called us to be Holy because He is HOLY (Leviticus 20:7-8, 27; 1 Peter 1:15-16). GOD is HOLY – set apart – because He Is GOD. Everything exists in Him, by Him and for His Good Pleasure. So we, as those forgiven by The Blood of JESUS, who are now His Children and Servants of His Kingdom in the earth; should be set apart to Him and Him only! We can only do that if we live righteously or in righteousness.

Righteousness is the process of being Holy to GOD! (See the definitions below)

Genesis 15:1-6 GOD accounted Abraham’s Faith to him for Righteousness – Romans 4 GOD accounted Abraham’s Faith for Righteousness before he was circumcised, and after GOD told Abraham to sacrifice his promised son, Isaac.

Job 29 Job describing why he walked in righteousness;  “I put on righteousness and it clothed me.” (14)

Psalm 4:1” I call, O GOD of my righteousness” David challenges his followers to live righteously before GOD (2-5) – Jeremiah 23:5-6 “The LORD our Righteousness!” Jeremiah prophesies of JESUS The CHRIST.

Psalm 24:1-5 “…He shall receive Blessing from The LORD and Righteousness from The GOD of his Salvation.”

Psalm 35:27-28 We shall speak of GOD’s Righteousness and Praise.

Psalm 40:4-10 We are to proclaim The Good News of GOD’s Righteousness as JESUS did, Matthew 4:17, 23 (Hebrews 10:5-7).

Psalm 50:-1-6 “Let the heavens declare His Righteousness,” (Psalm 97:1-6)

Psalm 85:10-13 Righteousness and Peace have…Righteousness will go before Him.

Psalm 111:1-3 Righteousness endures forever – Isaiah 51:7-8 My Righteousness will be forever.

Proverbs 10:2-3 Righteousness delivers from death - 2 Peter 2:4-5 Preaching righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 11:3-6 The righteousness of the blameless – Proverbs 3:3-8 how to be righteousness.

Proverbs 12:28 The way of righteousness is life – Romans 5:17, 21  righteousness will reign in life.

Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation – Proverbs 11:11 lack of righteousness (wickedness) overthrows a nation.

Proverbs 21:21 Righteousness produces more righteousness – Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who seek righteousness.

Isaiah 1:21-23 Righteousness can be lost – Luke 19:9-10 JESUS came to seek the lost, to restore righteousness.

Isaiah 45:24 In the LORD I have righteousness – Philippians 3:7-11 not having my own righteousness.

Isaiah 57:12 I will declare your righteousness (GOD’s judgment) – Romans 6:23 wages of sin, Gift of GOD.

Isaiah 59:15-17 Righteousness as a breastplate – Ephesians 6:10-18 the breastplate of righteousness (14).

Isaiah 62:1 GOD’s Righteousness goes forth through His servants. – 1 John 3:4-9 He who practices righteousness is righteous just as JESUS is Righteousness (7).

Jeremiah 33:15 To David a Branch of righteousness; The LORD our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:5-6).

Ezekiel 18:20 The righteousness of the righteous – Acts 10:34-36 those who do the works of righteousness are excepted by GOD.

Daniel 12:3 Who turn many to righteousness – Proverbs 11:30 winning souls is righteousness.

Matthew 3:13-15 GOD has determined and established what is righteousness and how to fulfill it.

Matthew 5:17-20 It’s not the righteousness of the religious but The Righteousness of GOD that counts. (Matthew 21:28-32).

Romans 1:16-17 For The Gospel reveals GOD’s Righteousness.

Romans 3:21-26 The Righteousness of GOD by Faith is revealed.

Romans 10:1-4 Ignorant of GOD’s Righteousness (Matthew 7:21-29)

2 Corinthians 5:21 “For GOD made JESUS, Who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become The Righteousness of GOD in CHRIST JESUS!”

Titus 3:4-7 The righteousness which we have – Ephesians 2:8 is a Gift from GOD.

James 1:19-20 Wrath does not produce The Righteousness of GOD (Ephesians 4:26).

2 Peter 3:13 A new earth in which righteousness (Revelation 21:1-3).

1 John 2:28-29 He who practices righteousness is born of GOD (1 John 3:4-9).

 Definitions

Righteousness = adv. morally right; virtuous; law-abiding. The Oxford

American Desk Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1998

Righteousness = The state of being upright, moral, holy, and just. Righteousness is accorded to GOD alone throughout most of Scripture (John 17:25). Human righteousness can only be achieved through Faith in CHRIST (Romans 3:21-26). Bible Dictionary Bible Facts At Your Fingertips, Publications International, Ltd., 1999

Hebrew: righteousness, righteousness’, righteousnesses: Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible, A Concise Dictionary Of The Words In The  Hebrew Bible, MacDonald Publishing Company

3718 Daniel 9:18 – righteousnesses (only used once) kephel (from kâphal; a primary root; to fold together; figuratively to repeat:-double.) a duplicate:-double.

6663 Daniel 12:3 – righteousness (only used once) tsâdaq; a primary root; to be (causatively make) right (in a moral or forensic sense):-cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just (-ice, -ify, ify self), (be turn to) righteousness (-ness).

6664 Leviticus 19:15 – righteousness, righteousness’ (first use) tsedeq; (from tsâdaq) the right(natural, moral or legal): also (abstract) equity or (figurative) prosperity:- X even, (X that which is altogether) just (-ice), ([un-]) right (-eous) cause, -ly, -ness).

6665 Daniel 4:27 – righteousness (only used once) tsidqâh; (Chaldean) (corresponds to ts^edâqâh) beneficence:- righteousness.

6666 Genesis 15:6 – righteousness, righteousness’,  (first use) ts^edâqâh; (from tsâdaq) righteous (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity):-justice, moderately, right (-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).

Greek: righteousness, righteousness’: Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible, A Concise Dictionary Of The Words In The  Greek Testament, MacDonald Publishing Company

1343 Matthew 3:15 – righteousness, righteousness’ (first use) dikaiŏsunē; (from dikaiŏs; (equitable in character or act); by implication innocent, holy (absolute or relative):-just, meet, right (-eous).) (equity of character or act); specifically (Christian) justification:-righteousness.

1345 Romans 2:26 – righteousness, righteousness’ (first use)

1346 1 Corinthians 15:34 – righteousness (only used once) dikaiōma; (from dikaiŏō; (render (i.e. to show or regard as) just or innocent:-free, justify (-ier), be righteous.) an equitable deed; by implication a statute or decision:-judgment, justification, ordinance, righteousness.

2118 Hebrews 1:8 – righteousness (only used once) ĕuthutēs; (from ĕuthus; straight, i.e. (literally)  level, or (figuratively) true; adv. (of time)) at once:-anon, by and by, forthwith, immediately, straightway.) rectitude:-righteousness.

 

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"It IS Finished!"

 

“It Is Finished!”

 

I heard this story by The Gathers during an interview on TBN. They told of an old Baptist Evangelist, whose name I did not catch, that Jerry Falwell really loved. This evangelist gave a message called “It Is Finished!” that was heard by the Gathers. This caused them to write a song about it was called “It Is Finished!”

 

As told by the evangelist as best as I understood what the Gathers said: A drop of blood and sweat dripped from JESUS’ face to the ground at the base of the cross when JESUS proclaimed; “It Is Finished!” the drop landed on a blade of grass and proclaimed, “It Is Finished!” A bird swooped down and plucked the blade of grass and the blade of grass proclaimed, “It Is Finished!” The bird flew to the top of a tall tree and proclaimed, “It Is Finished!” The tall tree proclaimed to the heavens, “It Is Finished!” The Heavens proclaimed to all creation, “It Is Finished!” There was an earthquake in Jerusalem, the rocks split and the graves opened proclaiming, “It Is Finished!”  In The Temple, The Veil was torn in two from top to bottom proclaiming, “It Is Finished!”

 

If you do not understand what “It Is Finished!” means for you and the world then you must read the 4 Gospels of The Bible. They tell the story of GOD’s Love for all humanity, whom He created in His Own Image. How JESUS as a man not born of a man but of GOD lived a sinless life as a  man so that He could go to the cross in the place of every human being ever conceived, to take upon Himself the eternal punishment of our sins and restore our relationship with GOD as it was in the beginning.

 

Since JESUS fulfilled GOD’s purpose for His Life as a man and proclaimed, “It Is Finished!” we are now able to repent (stop sinning) and live our life for GOD Who is our Heavenly Father! JESUS said that knowing our Heavenly Father and His Son JESUS is “Eternal Life!”

 

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