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THREAD: Strands of Salvation in the Synoptics
Joseph isn’t the only beloved son to be given a multi-coloured coat. Jesus is given one too, though by the hands of ungodly men.
In Matthew it’s scarlet (kokkinos); in Mark it’s purple (porphyra); …
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James Bejon 🇮🇱 retweeted
A proposed seven by seven structure for Revelation for those who are interested. Link below.
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A proposed seven by seven structure for Revelation for those who are interested. Link below.
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James Bejon 🇮🇱 retweeted
Jun 4
At the link below are a few thoughts on the end of Malachi 3.
For more, why not give the Theopolis podcast a go?
jamesbejon.substack.com/p/sp…
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May 30
Dear #Greek folks.
Are there any clues as to how to interpret this? Does the sign-of-the-Son-of-Man appear in heaven? Or does the sign-of-the-Son-of-Man-in-heaven appear?
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James Bejon 🇮🇱 retweeted
May 28
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The Hebrew word ken has five completely different meanings.
Five words. One spelling. Nothing in common.
A thread. 🧵
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May 26
The book of Joel describes three occasions when the sun goes dark, the earth quakes, the stars fall, etc. (Joel 1.15–2.11, 2.28–32, 3.14–21). All three are referred to as days of the Lord.
These three days have an implicit order. The second takes place ‘after’ the first (2.28). And the third, which marks the book’s climax, is a reversal of the second, by which token it must postdate it: while the nations conquer Israel in Joel 2 (2.1–11, 2.28–32, Acts 2.40), the nations are judged in Joel 3 and Israel is vindicated.
Joel’s three days of the Lord thus describe the fall of three different temples. The first day describes the fall of the first temple (Solomon’s) (1.15–2.11), the second the fall of the second temple, as Peter tells us (2.28–32), and the third the fall of a cosmic temple (the world order) (3.14–21).
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James Bejon 🇮🇱 retweeted
May 24
The funniest maths in modern environmentalism.
One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled.
The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy.
Meanwhile, in Cheshire.
A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain.
She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco.
To recap.
600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water.
Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food.
The shopper picks the almond.
She has been told this is the ethical position.
The aquifer would like a word.
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James Bejon 🇮🇱 retweeted
May 21
If Dan. 9.26 & 9.27 describe consecutive events, then some very particular end-times scenarios follow.
But the two verses cover similar ground (the onset of a 70th week, cessation of sacrifices, resultant ‘desolation’, etc.), and have suggestive lexical connections.
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James Bejon 🇮🇱 retweeted
May 21
Could some kind #Hebrew student tell me about the word mamzer?
Contextually it seems like it could refer to someone’s ethnic origins.
Why is it traditionally taken to mean ‘bastard’? And how far does this interpretation go back?
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May 21
If Dan. 9.26 & 9.27 describe consecutive events, then some very particular end-times scenarios follow.
But the two verses cover similar ground (the onset of a 70th week, cessation of sacrifices, resultant ‘desolation’, etc.), and have suggestive lexical connections.
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James Bejon 🇮🇱 retweeted
May 20
When I was Muslim, I compared Muhammad’s last words to Jesus’ last words.
Not just the facts, but the spirit behind them.
And bro, the difference is staggering. It shook my devout Muslim faith.
According to Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad’s final words included: “May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians. They made the graves of their prophets into places of worship.”
Those are words associated with his final moments.
No forgiveness. No reconciliation. No peace.
Now compare that to Jesus.
Beaten, betrayed, tortured, hanging on a cross with nails through His wrists, Jesus says:
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
And then: “It is finished.”
One dies speaking curses.
The other dies extending forgiveness.
One ends by drawing lines and reinforcing division.
The other tears the veil and reconciles heaven and earth.
And whether people like it or not, final words reveal something deeply personal about the heart.
That contrast shook me.
Because one man’s final moments reinforced separation, while the other’s changed eternity through mercy, sacrifice, and love.
Please sit with that honestly.
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May 15
Josh is a great guy, and shares some really great info about Genesis 1.1 here.
May 15
NEW VIDEO: There has been a lot of noise about whether we've misunderstood Genesis 1:1, that it really means "when God began creating..." In this video, I try to explain evidence presented by Ben Kantor in support of the traditional view.
youtube.com/watch?v=m7i7Asue…
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May 13
An interesting example of how our worldview can colour our reading of Scripture.
‘Dwelling in the tents of Shem’ somehow comes to mean ‘becoming greater than the Semitic ancestors of Shem’.
And the claim that ‘Japheth’s line receives the most extensive treatment in Genesis 10’ somehow becomes support for the claim that ‘There is undeniably a biblical prophecy containing a special blessing for White people’.
Interestingly, though, while Japheth’s line is dealt with in a mere four verses, Ham’s takes fifteen verses.
Granted one of its premises, then, shouldn’t this article be retitled, ‘There is undeniably a biblical prophecy containing a special blessing for Black people’?
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May 12
There is undeniably a biblical prophecy containing a special blessing for White people.
If you don’t like it, take it up with God. For those who aren’t so easily offended, here’s an explanation. 👇
Noah’s prophecy in Genesis 9 covers the entire sweep of Western history in three sentences. The European peoples would be enlarged by God, would come to occupy the covenant inheritance of Israel, and would exercise authority over the pagan populations of the Middle East. Anglo-Saxons and Caucasians are in the prophetic canon, named by a prophet who stood on the slopes of Ararat centuries before their civilizations existed.
Don’t blame us for that claim. That’s Biblical prophecy. Noah got off the boat, prophesied to his sons, and prophesied that Japheth’s lineage - Europeans and Caucasians - would be greater than the Semitic ancestors of Shem, and would one day take their place.
Barnes’ Notes commentary says that Noah’s prophecy, “refers not only to the territory and the multitude of the Japhethites, but also to their intellectual and active faculties. The metaphysics of the Hindoos, the philosophy of the Greeks, the military prowess of the Romans, and the modern science and civilization of the world, are due to the race of Japheth.”
Matthew Henry noted that “Japheth’s prosperity peopled all Europe, a great part of Asia, and perhaps America,” and John Gill traced the fulfillment through the Greeks and Romans, observing that Japheth’s sons “made conquests in Asia, in which were the tents of Shem’s posterity.” These were not kooky interpreters reading their cultural assumptions into the text. They were the mainstream of Protestant biblical scholarship, and they read Genesis 9:27 as a prophecy whose fulfillment was visible in the history of Western civilization.
*Read the article at our website by using the link in my bio.
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May 10
As a non-Jew, I was likewise honoured.
The primary problem with anti-Semitism isn’t that it will be anti-some-other-ethnicity next. It’s that it results in dead Jews.
May 10
As a proud British Jew, I’m honoured to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of non-Jews against antisemitism in London.
Keir Starmer: stop kowtowing to Islamist terrorists who want us dead.
We Jews will never surrender. Britain is our home and we are here to stay.
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James Bejon 🇮🇱 retweeted
May 8
Thoughts on Jonah for folk who might be interested. Link below.
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