hi Cobus...this is your thread - it kinda got derailed, and since you went off-topic on mine, cut me some slack as i go off topic here
thanks, man.
The Crusaders could have torn it down, too, but the building was so beautiful that they decided not to. Instead, they stabled their horses in it. if they had destroyed the dome, all those wonderful day-year and time-times prophecies about the restoration of Israel in 1948 and the freeing of Jerusalem in 1967 could never have been fulfilled.
lol....that's most definitely a solid foundation for reverse-engineering some math and waving a wand over Daniel's 70th week.
ah yes....a pagan temple in Jerusalem
which now is is the center of everything, fo sho.
we'll even rewrite scripture to make it so.
just no clue what Paul is saying here in
c.54AD (a wee bit before 688AD or 1948AD)
Galatians 4
Sons and Heirs
1I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,a though he is the owner of everything, 2but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principlesb of the world. 4But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
12Brothers,c I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. 13You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first, 14and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. 15What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. 16Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?d 17They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. 18It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, 19my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! 20I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
Example of Hagar and Sarah
21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia;e she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27For it is written,
“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”
28Now you,f brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 31So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
hmm - possible options
1) this is contrasting jews and muslims
2) this is contrasting two covenants
3) this is contrasting two jerusalems
4) this is contrasting christians and jews
5) this is stating plainly who wil,l and who will not inherit eternal life
6) this is stating who persecutes whom, for what reason
7) paul didn't have the right doctrinal update
hmm
what was Paul talking about i wonder?
i suppose he didn't have the new soteriology opened to him like we do today, based on a rock possibly under a desolate temple site.
a place where unregenerate people kill and persecute each other continuously because they both believe
the exact wrong thing about that islamic shrine, and that location.
none of them have any clue Who The Stone is, where Jerusalem is, where Zion is, and what happens when The Corner Stone falls on people who
reject Him - ground to powder.
oh well.
who knew Paul shouldn't have written Galatians?
