Present tense of prophecy list

Bible.org Rev 22:12 “I am coming” in the Greek is a present tense verb. It is what we call a futuristic or prophetic present. This is used of an event which is so certain that it is regarded as already in the process of coming to pass.

For future judgment:

• John 3:36b "the wrath of God remains on him."

• Matt 3:10 The axe is already laid at the root of the trees...every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

• Matt 23:38 "your house is left desolate";

• Matt 26:28 “this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”

• Eph. 5.6 the wrath of God "has come upon"; cp. Rom 1.18 "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven"; 

• 1Cor 10:11 “the end of the ages has come”!

For the coming Kingdom on earth:

• John 3.36 "anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life";

• Matt 23:13 "are entering the kingdom of heaven";

• Eph. 1.14 holy spirit is the guarantee of "our inheritance," cp. Eph. 5.5 "has any inheritance";

• Rev 5.10 some manuscripts read "they are reigning";

For the coming Messiah:

A Layman's Theology, James Clark, p 93. "The prophecies generally considered to apply to Jesus in Isa 9 and Isa 53 are couched in all three major tenses - past, present, and future."

• Isa 40:3a “a voice is calling”;

• Isa 53:2b “he has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon him”

• Isa 53:5b "by his wounds we are healed";

• Isa 63:1 "Who is this who comes from Edom? He is majesty, marching."

For the Resurrection from the dead:

• John 5:25 "an hour is coming and is now [here]"

All 3 Tenses:

Henry Jones in Principles of Interpreting the Prophecies, p 70. "The promiscous use of the present, past, and future tenses in the ancient Prophets, shows that the sign of the past tense was no sign against the future fulfilling of the things thus written. [see Isa 40.2-6; 53.1-3; 63.1-6]"

• Hebrew 8:13 "He has made the first one obsolete [past]; and what is obsolete [present] and aging will soon disappear [future]". NOTE: spoken from the perspective of when the words first spoken by God through the prophet hundreds of years earlier.

• John 5:24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life [present tense] and will not be judged [future] but has crossed over from death to life [past tense].”

• Rev 17:8 "The beast that you saw was [past], and is not [present], and is about to rise [future] from the bottomless pit and go to destruction."

1 Timothy 3: Should women be ordained elders?

What’s always ignored or missed, perhaps due to the uninspired chapter breaks, is the fact that Paul goes on to explain what he means by not allowing a woman to oversee a man. For example, in 1Tim 3 Paul limits the office of an overseer, aka pastor/elder, to males only by the phrase "the husband of one wife," which literally means "a-one-woman-man."

NOTE Paul's presupposition that a man is to be faithfully married does not of course mean that a single man was disqualified from the position. Paul himself was probably single and elsewhere even recognized celibacy as perfectly suitable for ministry.

The ESV Study Bible note on 1Tim 2.12 explains that “Since the role of pastor/elder/overseer is rooted in the task of teaching and exercising authority over the church, this verse would also exclude women from serving in this office (cf. 1 Tim. 3:2). Thus, when Paul calls for the women to be quiet, he means quiet with respect to the teaching responsibility that is limited in the assembled church."

The NET Bible adds that the phrase "must remain quiet" is used in Greek literature either of absolute silence or of a quiet demeanor. For example, in 2Thess 3:12 Paul uses the same Greek word to urge some in the church to do their work quietly. Hence, my paraphrase:

The woman is not to oversee the church by taking on the teaching and authority of the male elder but instead she should maintain a quiet demeanor.

Favorite Pro-Life slogans

 

Life begins at conception. It ends at Planned Parenthood.

 

I worked in the abortion industry. I am now pro-life. You CAN quit!

 

Heartbeats detected must be protected.

 

1/3 of my generation is missing.

 

It’s a child – not a choice; I regret my abortion.

 

I mourn my aborted sibling.

 

I regret lost fatherhood.

 

Terrorists have killed 3,000 since 1990. Abortionists killed over 2,500 in America yesterday.

 

We protect: rainforests, whales, trees – but not unborn babies.

 

Call me an extremist but I think that dismemberment is wrong.

 

No law can give me the right to do what is wrong.

 

This feminist opposes discrimination by dismemberment.

 

A fetus=a child=a human being (Luke 1:39-45).

 

Real men love babies.

 

In the name of women’s rights – babies’ rights are snuffed out.

 

I am the pro-life generation; my generation will end abortion.

 

There is no argument for abortion that makes sense!

 

Both lives matter! Life is for everyone!

 

If abortion is about women’s rights – where were mine?

 

All those in favor of abortion have already been born!

 

The greatest threat to Planned Parenthood is the Truth!

 

Abortion is called a choice – but someone dies.

 

The unborn are human beings just like you and me. That is why it is wrong to kill them

 

A massacre of Innocents; abortion is an American holocaust.

 

I survived the rape. I never got over my abortion.

 

It is not a war on choice; it is a revulsion against killing.

 

Abortion is an industry of death.

 

Abortion is always wrong because it is always killing.

 

We march for those who can’t.

 

One unborn baby is murdered every 98 secs.

 

Abortion on demand = the gospel of choice.

 

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you can live as you wish. ( Mother Teresa?)

 

No law can give you the right to do what is wrong,

 

Abortion is legal because babies can’t vote.

 

Every abortion has 2 victims: one damaged, one dead.

 

It’s not science; it’s violence. Pro-life is pro-science.

 

Speak up for those who cannot. I cannot stand by while innocent lives are being lost.

 

Butchering babies for trade in the open market is barbaric.

 

The most dangerous place for a black American baby is in the womb of its black American mother.

 

My birth mother walked out of Planned Parenthood. 60,086,776 babies never left. I walk for them.

 

Your baby has its own DNA. That makes you separate humans!

 

I love adoption!

 

Abortion is the definition of evil – pure and simple.

 

The Constitution says: “No state shall deprive any person of life…” So why is abortion legal?

 

Abortion really is about adults wanting to kill children legally.

 

I am pro-life because there is always a better answer than abortion.

 

Abortion is not medicine. It is not necessary. It is just a license to kill.

 

Why do grown-ups get to bash the baby, when we kids don’t get to break our toys or hurt our pets? Isn’t abortion like breaking my doll – only worse?

 

One unplanned pregnancy saved us all!

 

Help us make abortion unthinkable.

 

You have to join the side you are on!

 

Some babies die by chance, None should die by choice!

 

Sanctity of Life vs. Sanctity of choice!

 

It’s OK to kill a baby in the womb when?____________________

 

Life is for everyone!

 

It’s not choice – it’s violence.

The Friday of Passover Week: John 19:14

 From The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties 

The uniform impression conveyed by the synoptic Gospels is that the Crucifixion took place on Friday of Holy Week. If it were not for John 19:14, the point would never have come up for debate. But John 19:14 says (according to NASB): 

"Now it was the day of preparation [paraskeue] for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he [Pilate] said to the Jews, `Behold, your King!'" 

The NIV suggests a somewhat less difficult handling of the apparent discrepancy: 

"It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour." 

This latter translation takes note of two very important matters of usage. 

First, the word paraskeue had already by the first century A.D. become a technical term for "Friday," since every Friday was the day of preparation for Saturday, that is, the Sabbath. In Modern Greek the word for "Friday" is paraskeue.   

Second, the Greek term tou pascha (lit., "of the Passover") is taken to be equivalent to the Passover Week. This refers to the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Heb. massot) that immediately followed the initial slaughtering and eating of the Passover lamb on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month Abib, which by Hebrew reckoning would mean the commencement of the fifteenth day, right after sunset. The week of masso-t, coming right on the heels of Passover itself (during which masso-t were actually eaten, along with the lamb, bitter herbs, etc.) very naturally came to be known as Passover Week (cf. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th ed., 12:1041), extending from the fifteenth to the twenty-first of Abib, inclusively. (Arndt and Gingrich [Greek-English Lexicon, pp. 638-39] state: "This [i.e., Passover] was followed immediately by the Feast of Unleavened Bread...on the 15th to the 21st. Popular usage merged the two festivals and treated them as a unity, as they were for practical purposes.") It was unnecessary to insert a specific term for "week" (such as sa-bua`) for it to be understood as such. Therefore, that which might be translated literally as "the preparation of the Passover" must in this context be rendered "Friday of Passover Week."   

It turns out, therefore, that John affirms just as clearly as the Synoptics that Christ was crucified on Friday and that His sacrificial death represented an antitypical fulfillment of the Passover ordinance itself, which was instituted by God in the days of the Exodus as a means of making Calvary available by faith to the ancient people of God even before the coming of Christ.   

Note that in 1 Corinthians 5:7 Jesus is referred to as the Passover Lamb for believers: 

"Purge out the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, just as you were unleavened. For Christ our Lamb was sacrificed for us." 

The statement of E. C. Hoskyns on John 19:14 is very appropriate here: 

"The hour of double sacrifice is drawing near. It is midday. The Passover lambs are being prepared for sacrifice, and the Lamb of God is likewise sentenced to death" (The Fourth Gospel [London: Farber and Farber, 1940], ad loc.). 

It simply needs to be pointed out that the lambs referred to here are not those that were slaughtered and eaten in private homes--a rite Jesus had already observed with His disciples the night before ("Maundy Thursday")--but the lambs to be offered on the altar of the Lord on behalf of the whole nation of Israel. (For the household observance on the evening of the fourteenth of Abib, cf. Exod. 12:6; for the public sacrifice on the altar, cf. Exod. 12:16-17; Lev. 23:4-8; 2 Chron. 30:15-19; 35:11-16. These were all known as Passover sacrifices, since they were presented during Passover week.)   

Thus it turns out that there has been a simple misunderstanding of the phrase paraskeue tou pascha that has occasioned such perplexity that even Guthrie (New Bible Commentary, p.964) deduced an original error, for which he had no solution to offer. The various ingenious explanations offered by others, that Christ held His personal Passover a night early, knowing that He would be crucified before the evening of the fourteenth; that Christ and His movement held to a different calendar, reckoning the fourteenth to be a day earlier than the calendar of the official Jerusalem priesthood; or that He was following a revised calendar observed by the Essenes at Qumran--all these theories are quite improbable and altogether unnecessary. There is no contradiction whatever between John and the Synoptics as to the day on which Christ died--it was Friday. 

Study notes: Romans 13

 CONTEXT: Romans 12:14-21

• v. 14: "bless those who persecute (you), bless and do not curse."

• Paul choes Jesus, “love your enemies”: Mat 5.38-39

• Change of the OC law “an eye for an eye” (lex talionis): Lev. 24.20

Cp. God commands lethal self-defense: Ex 22.2. But Jesus says “pray” for them: Luke 6.28-29

• v.19 Don't be an avenger, AB footnote

Paul sees the state as a tool of vengeance in 13:4, but he never imagined that believers assume that role. NT believers are not part of the present political world-system. They are resident aliens, and should not be fighting in the wars of this world-system. Satan’s kingdoms become the Kingdom of God only at the future seventh trumpet which signals the arrival of Messiah to rule with the saints (Rev. 11:15-18). Jesus did not attempt to interfere with politics at his first coming.

Gregory Boyd, author Myth of a Christian Religion and Myth of a Christian Nation.

Jesus’ complete lack of interest becomes even more significant when we remember that he lived in politically volatile times. The reason is that the kingdom of God that Jesus [preached] has nothing to do with having the “right” opinions about how the kingdoms of the world should run. It’s rather a kingdom that “is not of this world” (Jn. 18:36). The only instructions Christians are given vis-à-vis government in the New Testament is to respect and submit to authorities as much as possible, to pay our taxes and to pray for leaders so there will be peace (paying taxes, Mk 12:13-17; Rom 13:1-7; 1 Pet 2:13-17). And even these instructions are not given out of any concern for how government should run but to simply facilitate the spreading of the Gospel.

J.W. Allen, A History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century, 1928, p 132.

"Yet it would be a gross mistake to suppose that men, at any time, took their political opinions from St. Paul."

CONTEXT: Roman government headed by Nero (57-64 AD).

• According to some killed his mother (poison or drowned); killed his 2nd wife (kicked her while pregnant!)

• Blamed Christians for burning Rome;

• CFs called him the first persecutor of the faith; others the AntiChrist!

• Tradition states he martyred Paul and Peter!

Roman 13:1, Authorities = Government

• Paul echoes OT scheme, God “removes and sets kings…they rule and make laws” Dan 2.21; Prov. 8.15.

• The point is “What God allows, He is sometimes said to ordain.”

• True even of Satan, Luke 4:6

The devil said to Him, “I will give You all this domain and its glory, for it has been handed over to me [by Adam!], and I give it to whomever I want."

Romans 13:2 rebels "will bring judgment upon themselves"

• Example from John the Baptist who criticized Herod.

• Paul and Silas beaten by the Roman magistrates at Philippi (Acts 16:23).

Romans 13:3 The "rulers"

• The Greek archon used for human rulers, cp. Josephus ref. to Roman rulers over Jews during the War.

Romans 13:4, Gods’ servants for good and evil, I.e., avenger!

• God has given government the responsibility to punish evil, even capital punishment.

• This job is explicitly forbidden to the Christian (12:17a, 19)!

Rom 12:17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil;

12:19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends!

• Again, Paul echoes Hebrew Scriptures where God sometimes uses the nations to punish His own people.

Romans 13:6-7, pay your taxes.

• Ancient Rome funded military conquests, the same that persecuted Christians;

• Funded public works like the coliseums, gladiatorial games, orgies, etc.

John MacArthur US revolutionary war was “contrary to the clear teachings and commands of Rome 13:1-7.”

“So the United States was actually born out of a violation of New Testament principles, and any blessings God has bestowed on America have come in spite of that disobedience by the Founding Fathers.”

• Rom. 13:11 “salvation is now closer to us than when we first believed”:

Salvation in the NT is in 3 tenses of the verb:

1. We were saved (Rom 8:24),

2. We are being saved (2Cor 2:15),

3. We will be saved at Messiah’s return (Acts 15:11).

Romans 13:12 The night has advanced toward dawn;

• Messianic symbol, Zecheriah the priest:

Luke 1:78 “Through God’s caring kindness to us, heaven’s dawn will break upon us, 79 to shine on those who live in darkness and under the shadow of death [Dan 12.3], and to guide us along the path which leads to peace.”

Jesus Practiced What he Preached

Throughout the Gospels we see Jesus practicing what he preached and commanding his listening audience to do the same. For example, Jesus is seen eating with "sinners," a word that can only apply to two classes of people: non-religious Jews and the uncircumcised, i.e., Gentiles. So it would make sense that Jesus broke Kosher laws, similar to the allegations against Peter in Acts 11:3; Gal 2.12.

In Mark 7 Jesus uses his criticism of the tradition of the Jewish elders to make a further teaching on the food laws.

"Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. 'All of you listen,' he said, 'and try to understand. It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart'.”

(Mar 7.14-15; NOTE some manuscripts add verse 16, "Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand.")

As a result, Mark later says that by saying these things "Jesus had made all foods clean." (Mar 7.19)

The Apostles likely broke the once a year law on fasting from Lev. 16, i.e., for the Day of Atonement. In Mar 2.19 Jesus clearly says: "They can’t fast while the groom is with them." And we all know that the ministry of Jesus lasted for at least years.

In Numbers 5 God commands the removal of people with all kinds of illnesses "so that they will not defile their camps." The same in Numbers 9.10 where God commands anyone who has been in contact with the dead not to take the Passover. Yet, Jesus and his followers are recorded time and again as having to touch the sick, demonized in order to heal them.

In Matthew 12:1-6 and John 5:17-19 we see Jesus and his followers breaking the Sabbath yet, not making them lawbreakers, i.e., sinners.

Lastly, under Moses you could kill your enemy and even the "intruder: (Lev. 24.20; Ex 22.2) but under Jesus you have to unconditionally “love your enemies” (Mat 5.38-39; cp. Luke 6.28-29).

And under Moses a certificate of divorce was granted (Deut. 24.1-4) but under Jesus divorce is allowed for only one reason (Mat 5.31-32; 19).

The fact is Jesus was sent to preach and practice New Covenant Law (Heb. 9.15; 12.24). As a result, Jesus was under his own Law, what Paul later calls the Law of Messiah (Gal 6.2; 1Cor 9:21, not the same as the Law of Moses!). Hence, Paul clearly says "imitate me as I imitate Messiah" (1Cor 11.1). And though we all know that both Paul and Jesus were "born under the Law" of Moses, it doesn't mean they had to remain Torah-observant for the rest of their life!

The Sound Doctrine Dictionary

Compiled by Sarah Jiménez 

Synonyms for the whole body of established Christian doctrine in 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus

(Note that Christian teaching is not just one doctrine, not a single issue!)

 

The defining text: 1 Tim. 6:3: “Health-giving words – namely the teachings given by our lord Jesus Messiah” = the Gospel about the Kingdom

 

The faith: 1 Tim. 1:2; 1:19; 3:13; 4:1; 5:8; 6:10; 6:12; 6:21; 2 Tim. 3:8; 4:7; Titus 1:1; 1:4; 1:13; 3:15

The truth: 1 Tim. 2:4; 3:15; 4:3; 6:5; 2 Tim. 2:18; 2:25; 3:7-8; 4:4; Titus 1:1; 1:14

The health-giving (sound) teaching (or words): 1 Tim. 1:10; 6:3; 2 Tim. 1:13; 4:3; Titus 1:9; 1:13; 2:1-2; 2:8 (sound message)

The revealed truths (mystery) of the faith: 1 Tim. 3:9; 3:16

The words of the faith and good doctrine: 1 Tim. 4:6

The Gospel of the glory of God = The Gospel of the Kingdom of God: 1 Tim. 1:11

The Gospel: 2 Tim. 1:8; 1:10; 2 Tim. 1:11; 2:8

The word (Gospel) of the truth: 2 Tim. 2:15

The word (Gospel) of God: 2 Tim. 2:9, Titus 2:5

The word (Gospel): 2 Tim. 4:2; Titus 1:3; 1:9

The standard (pattern) of health-giving words: 2 Tim. 1:13

The treasure (deposit) entrusted to you: 2 Tim. 1:14 (see also v. 12: “what has been entrusted to me” and 1 Tim. 1:11, 6:20; 2 Tim. 2:2; Titus 1:3)

The teaching (“Christian teaching,” NET Bible): 1 Tim. 6:1

The teaching of God: Titus 2:10