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On Matthew 13:10-13 and Becoming Spiritually Stupefied
"And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto
them in parables?
11. He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to
know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not
given.
12. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have
more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away
even that he hath.
13. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see
not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." Matthew
13: 10-13
And then Christ adds in Matthew 13:14-15, "And in them is fulfilled
the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull
of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they
should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should
heal them."
Waxed gross is from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 3975 pachuno, "to
thicken, by implication to fatten, figuratively stupefy or render
callous, wax gross."
Webster's 1828 Dictionary defines stupefy as "To make stupid; to make
dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding; to deprive
of sensibility, and stupor as "Great diminution or suspension of
sensibility; suppression of sense; numbness; as the stupor of a limb."
Stupefy might also mean to bring into a state of mental or cognitive
dullness, and to make dull or stupid. Stupor might be defined as
mental and/or moral dullness. In Matthew 5: 13 and Luke 14: 34,
about the salt of the church loosing its savour, it turns out to be
about a loss of cognitive clarity or intelligence, which, for the
church, is loss of its spiritual intelligence and strength. Savour
is from moraino, and from moros, Strong's number 3474, "dull or
stupid...blockhead."
Millions of church people have been spiritually and cognitively
stupefied through the preaching of false doctrines by the many false prophjets.
Many believe they are born again because
they heard a "gospel" that lacks the spiritual power of the message of
the Cross of Jesus Christ, and were led in a "sinner's prayer" and/or
by experiencing the group dynamic of an alter call to a preacher in
front of a large congregation.
To become spiritually and intellectually stupefied and put into a
state of strong delusion of II Thessalonians 2: 11 is to be put into
the condition of the natural man of I Corinthians 2: 14, who cannot
receive the things of the Spirit of God. Those who cannot receive the
things of the Spirit are spiritually dead. Christ said in Luke 9: 60,
"Let the dead bury their dead," meaning not that the physically dead
could bury the dead, but that those who are spiritually dead could do
so.
So, to be put into a state of spiritual dumbness by the false
doctrines spoken by the false prophets, the priests and preachers, is
to be made spiritually dead.
In Revelation 9:14-19 four angels are loosed to kill the third part
of men. The four angels do not carry out the killing themselves, for
in verse 6 a huge "army" of horsemen are described. Revelation 9: 7
says "out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone." Then
verse 8 says the third part of men are killed by that which comes out
of the mouths of this huge army of horsemen. Verse 9 says "For their
power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like
unto serpents, and had heads, and with them do hurt."
Serpents as a metaphor for Pharisees is found in Matthew 23: 33, where
Christ calls the Pharisees "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers..."
Christ tells us to beware the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees in
Matthew 16: 6, and Matthew 16: 12 explains that Christ meant to
beware of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. The Pharisees
are the false prophets of Christ's time.
The third part of men cannot be literally or physically killed by what
is spoken out of the mouths of this army of horsemen. The third part
of men that is killed is man's spiritual part, leaving him two parts
out of three, or .666, which is the number of the beast in Revelation
13: 8. This is the number of man without his spiritual part; it is
the natural man who cannot discern the things of the Spirit.
Those who are not born again but claim to be Christians are called
tares in Matthew 13. In Matthew 13:25-40 Christ talks about the
parable of the sower and of the wheat and the tares. Tares is from the
Greek word zizanion, Strong's number 2215, meaning "darnel or false
grain." See: darnel - definition of darnel by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
"darnel - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other
cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous."
The word stupify appears also in the definition of desolate in Daniel
11: 30-31, "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him:
therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation
against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and
have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. 31.
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the
sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and
they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. "
Desolate is Strong's number 8074, shamem, "to shun, grow numb, i.e,
devastate, or figuratively stupify..."
The abomination is something that devastates and stupfies people. It
is some kind of false doctrine mentioned in Daniel 11: 31 that
devastates and stupifies the spitritual life of people. It 'kills"
them spiritually.
In Daniel 8: 23 the word transgressors is from is Strong's number
6586, pasha, "to break away from just authority, i.e, trespass,
apostatize, quarrel, offend, rebel, revolt, transgress."
"And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are
come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark
sentences, shall stand up." Daniel 8: 23
The huge number of false prophets and their followers apostatize,
offend, rebel and quarrel with the truth as they cast the truth to the
ground.
Then in the NT II Peter 2:1-3 says "But there were false prophets
also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among
you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the
Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
and their damnation slumbereth not.
"Through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise
of you" is metaphoric in that people are not literally merchandise. To
make merchandise of people as a metaphor means to change them, while
in the NIV exploit you does not necessarily mean to change your
spiritual state and ability to discern and love the truth. The NIV
avoids the metaphoric meaning in II Peter 2: 3. It also diminishes the
metaphoric meaning of Revelation 9: 15 and 9: 18 by translating
"triton ton anthropon" as "a third of mankind," meaning one third of
all people will be killed. On the other hand, the Tyndale, Geneva and
KJV all have "the third part of men," which can mean man in three
parts is "killed" in one part. That is. one part of three part man is
"killed." This provides far different knowledge that saying "a third
of mankind" is to be literally killed.
The spirit of life from God enters into the Two Witnesses "killed" by
the beast from the bottomless pit in Revelation 11: 11. They were not
literally and physically killed by the beast out of the bottomless
pit, but their spiritual life was killed as in Revelation 9:14-19.
They were made merchandise of by the false prophets acting under the
beast from the bottomless pit. This is connecting two scriptures that
are kept in separate compartments by the false prophets to make it
harder to see connections between end time prophecy texts. Connecting
scriptures of a strand in end time Bible prophecy is a no-no among
those taught by the false prophets.
The false prophets tend to teach scripture in a compartmentalized way,
trying to isolate the verses of the Bible, and not connecting them
into meaningful strands. A whole strand of scripture put together
makes a stronger and clearer statement on a doctrine. But those
taught by the false prophets will often quarrel against connecting
scriptures into holistic strands of doctrine. It is often easier to
impose a doctrine from a tradition of men upon one scripture seen in
isolation from other texts within that strand. Breaking out of
compartmentalized teaching is important for correcting the false
doctrines taught by the many false prophets of Matthew 24: 11.
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"And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto
them in parables?
11. He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to
know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not
given.
12. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have
more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away
even that he hath.
13. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see
not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." Matthew
13: 10-13
And then Christ adds in Matthew 13:14-15, "And in them is fulfilled
the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull
of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they
should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should
heal them."
Waxed gross is from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 3975 pachuno, "to
thicken, by implication to fatten, figuratively stupefy or render
callous, wax gross."
Webster's 1828 Dictionary defines stupefy as "To make stupid; to make
dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding; to deprive
of sensibility, and stupor as "Great diminution or suspension of
sensibility; suppression of sense; numbness; as the stupor of a limb."
Stupefy might also mean to bring into a state of mental or cognitive
dullness, and to make dull or stupid. Stupor might be defined as
mental and/or moral dullness. In Matthew 5: 13 and Luke 14: 34,
about the salt of the church loosing its savour, it turns out to be
about a loss of cognitive clarity or intelligence, which, for the
church, is loss of its spiritual intelligence and strength. Savour
is from moraino, and from moros, Strong's number 3474, "dull or
stupid...blockhead."
Millions of church people have been spiritually and cognitively
stupefied through the preaching of false doctrines by the many false prophjets.
Many believe they are born again because
they heard a "gospel" that lacks the spiritual power of the message of
the Cross of Jesus Christ, and were led in a "sinner's prayer" and/or
by experiencing the group dynamic of an alter call to a preacher in
front of a large congregation.
To become spiritually and intellectually stupefied and put into a
state of strong delusion of II Thessalonians 2: 11 is to be put into
the condition of the natural man of I Corinthians 2: 14, who cannot
receive the things of the Spirit of God. Those who cannot receive the
things of the Spirit are spiritually dead. Christ said in Luke 9: 60,
"Let the dead bury their dead," meaning not that the physically dead
could bury the dead, but that those who are spiritually dead could do
so.
So, to be put into a state of spiritual dumbness by the false
doctrines spoken by the false prophets, the priests and preachers, is
to be made spiritually dead.
In Revelation 9:14-19 four angels are loosed to kill the third part
of men. The four angels do not carry out the killing themselves, for
in verse 6 a huge "army" of horsemen are described. Revelation 9: 7
says "out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone." Then
verse 8 says the third part of men are killed by that which comes out
of the mouths of this huge army of horsemen. Verse 9 says "For their
power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like
unto serpents, and had heads, and with them do hurt."
Serpents as a metaphor for Pharisees is found in Matthew 23: 33, where
Christ calls the Pharisees "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers..."
Christ tells us to beware the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees in
Matthew 16: 6, and Matthew 16: 12 explains that Christ meant to
beware of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. The Pharisees
are the false prophets of Christ's time.
The third part of men cannot be literally or physically killed by what
is spoken out of the mouths of this army of horsemen. The third part
of men that is killed is man's spiritual part, leaving him two parts
out of three, or .666, which is the number of the beast in Revelation
13: 8. This is the number of man without his spiritual part; it is
the natural man who cannot discern the things of the Spirit.
Those who are not born again but claim to be Christians are called
tares in Matthew 13. In Matthew 13:25-40 Christ talks about the
parable of the sower and of the wheat and the tares. Tares is from the
Greek word zizanion, Strong's number 2215, meaning "darnel or false
grain." See: darnel - definition of darnel by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
"darnel - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other
cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous."
The word stupify appears also in the definition of desolate in Daniel
11: 30-31, "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him:
therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation
against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and
have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. 31.
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the
sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and
they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. "
Desolate is Strong's number 8074, shamem, "to shun, grow numb, i.e,
devastate, or figuratively stupify..."
The abomination is something that devastates and stupfies people. It
is some kind of false doctrine mentioned in Daniel 11: 31 that
devastates and stupifies the spitritual life of people. It 'kills"
them spiritually.
In Daniel 8: 23 the word transgressors is from is Strong's number
6586, pasha, "to break away from just authority, i.e, trespass,
apostatize, quarrel, offend, rebel, revolt, transgress."
"And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are
come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark
sentences, shall stand up." Daniel 8: 23
The huge number of false prophets and their followers apostatize,
offend, rebel and quarrel with the truth as they cast the truth to the
ground.
Then in the NT II Peter 2:1-3 says "But there were false prophets
also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among
you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the
Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
and their damnation slumbereth not.
"Through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise
of you" is metaphoric in that people are not literally merchandise. To
make merchandise of people as a metaphor means to change them, while
in the NIV exploit you does not necessarily mean to change your
spiritual state and ability to discern and love the truth. The NIV
avoids the metaphoric meaning in II Peter 2: 3. It also diminishes the
metaphoric meaning of Revelation 9: 15 and 9: 18 by translating
"triton ton anthropon" as "a third of mankind," meaning one third of
all people will be killed. On the other hand, the Tyndale, Geneva and
KJV all have "the third part of men," which can mean man in three
parts is "killed" in one part. That is. one part of three part man is
"killed." This provides far different knowledge that saying "a third
of mankind" is to be literally killed.
The spirit of life from God enters into the Two Witnesses "killed" by
the beast from the bottomless pit in Revelation 11: 11. They were not
literally and physically killed by the beast out of the bottomless
pit, but their spiritual life was killed as in Revelation 9:14-19.
They were made merchandise of by the false prophets acting under the
beast from the bottomless pit. This is connecting two scriptures that
are kept in separate compartments by the false prophets to make it
harder to see connections between end time prophecy texts. Connecting
scriptures of a strand in end time Bible prophecy is a no-no among
those taught by the false prophets.
The false prophets tend to teach scripture in a compartmentalized way,
trying to isolate the verses of the Bible, and not connecting them
into meaningful strands. A whole strand of scripture put together
makes a stronger and clearer statement on a doctrine. But those
taught by the false prophets will often quarrel against connecting
scriptures into holistic strands of doctrine. It is often easier to
impose a doctrine from a tradition of men upon one scripture seen in
isolation from other texts within that strand. Breaking out of
compartmentalized teaching is important for correcting the false
doctrines taught by the many false prophets of Matthew 24: 11.
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