In this connection God tells King Solomon, "I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually."(1 Ki.9:3) God laid the condition on Solomon which he failed to keep.
'Put my name there forever'
'Forever ' in the above passage serves the same purpose as Amen at the end of the Lord's Prayer. In conclusion we have this v.13. "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." We are praying to 'Our Father which art in heaven' and we conclude referring to the power and glory of his Son and Amen is an act of faith.
I recently read about chiasitic structure in the Bible. Apparently, Revelation is written using that interesting style. I am still reading up on it. But, I wanted to share.
The Bible is the God document in which the Spirit uses an inversion mode in presenting Salvation Plan of God in terms of Alpha Omega referring Jesus Christ. Since God the Father sent his Son in human likeness which was set in God's time, the Spirit gives it as 'in the fulness of time'. His death and resurrection was also in the divine Will the Father Son relationship has to be presented in terms of mankind. So a Chiasitic structure is well suited for the purpose. "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."(Ac.1:11)
Use of numbers is another method, So 'time, times and a half" (42 weeks) refers to the period of the earthly ministry of the Son of man.
Ge 1:1 "In the beginning" is set in a reconstituted time into which earth time as well as eternal will also have to be reconciled. 'When the fulness of time was come' (Gal.4:4) refers to it. The latter days hold the other end. This Christ as the beginning and the ending every event, names of persons, places and nations shall be graded in terms of the Son. "All things were created by him, and for him:/ And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." Fulness of divine Will is made manifest in the Son. He is the Word become flesh. "In the beginning" therefore is placed by the Spirit in the Gospel of John.(1:1)
Thus " So the last shall be first, and the first last" to cite an example of chiasmus refers to Israel. (Matt.20:16). Afterall God blessed all families in the earth through Abraham, whose faith established the basis of the sonship. The Spirit uses the birth of Phares and Zarah, in order to teach us this point. The scarlet thread around Zarah' wrist foreshadows the Gentile nations coming into the fold after the falling of Israel. Since 2015 I have been blogging on the correct approach to the Bible, comparing spiritual with spiritual. Chiastic structure is one among many modes employed by the Spirit.
Good afternoon Bennymkje, Some further thoughts. The pale horse with death (spiritual) as a rider and Hell (after this time) following within a percentage of restraint, has/will kill (spiritually) with the sword, with death, with hunger and with beasts. This horse follows the times since Christ within its restraint.
It would be helpful if you shall set it down firstly the overall structure and how it relates to the whole.Then tackle it piecemeal. May the light of the Spirit lead you.
In this connection God tells King Solomon, "I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually."(1 Ki.9:3) God laid the condition on Solomon which he failed to keep.
'Put my name there forever'
'Forever ' in the above passage serves the same purpose as Amen at the end of the Lord's Prayer. In conclusion we have this v.13. "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." We are praying to 'Our Father which art in heaven' and we conclude referring to the power and glory of his Son and Amen is an act of faith.
I recently read about chiasitic structure in the Bible. Apparently, Revelation is written using that interesting style. I am still reading up on it. But, I wanted to share.
The Bible is the God document in which the Spirit uses an inversion mode in presenting Salvation Plan of God in terms of Alpha Omega referring Jesus Christ. Since God the Father sent his Son in human likeness which was set in God's time, the Spirit gives it as 'in the fulness of time'. His death and resurrection was also in the divine Will the Father Son relationship has to be presented in terms of mankind. So a Chiasitic structure is well suited for the purpose. "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."(Ac.1:11)
Use of numbers is another method, So 'time, times and a half" (42 weeks) refers to the period of the earthly ministry of the Son of man.
Ge 1:1 "In the beginning" is set in a reconstituted time into which earth time as well as eternal will also have to be reconciled. 'When the fulness of time was come' (Gal.4:4) refers to it. The latter days hold the other end. This Christ as the beginning and the ending every event, names of persons, places and nations shall be graded in terms of the Son. "All things were created by him, and for him:/ And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." Fulness of divine Will is made manifest in the Son. He is the Word become flesh. "In the beginning" therefore is placed by the Spirit in the Gospel of John.(1:1)
Thus " So the last shall be first, and the first last" to cite an example of chiasmus refers to Israel. (Matt.20:16). Afterall God blessed all families in the earth through Abraham, whose faith established the basis of the sonship. The Spirit uses the birth of Phares and Zarah, in order to teach us this point. The scarlet thread around Zarah' wrist foreshadows the Gentile nations coming into the fold after the falling of Israel. Since 2015 I have been blogging on the correct approach to the Bible, comparing spiritual with spiritual. Chiastic structure is one among many modes employed by the Spirit.
I have placed my comments on the same so I shall refrain from repeating it.
It would be helpful if you shall set it down firstly the overall structure and how it relates to the whole.Then tackle it piecemeal. May the light of the Spirit lead you.
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