IF FRED COULTER OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLICAL CHURCH OF GOD, IS USING ANOTHER GREEK OTHER THAN THE RECEIVED TEXT, OR AUTHORIZED VERSION, OR MAJORITY TEXT—— WE MAY NEVER AGREE ON WHAT THIS PASSAGE IS SAYING.
Keith Hunt
TECHNICAL UNDERSTANDING
OF 1 JOHN 4: 1-4
THIS IS THE LITERAL GREEK TRANSLATION BY THE SCHOLAR GEORGE RICKER BERRY, Ph.D
USING THE AUTHORIZED VERSION——
“BELOVED, NOT EVERY SPIRIT BELIEVE, BUT PROVE THE SPIRITS, IF OF GOD THEY ARE, BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS HAVE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD. BY THIS YOU KNOW THE SPIRIT OF GOD; EVERY SPIRIT WHICH CONFESSES JESUS CHRIST IN FLESH COME OF GOD IS; AND ANY SPIRIT WHICH CONFESSES NOT JESUS CHRIST IN FLESH COME; OF GOD NOT IS. AND THIS IS THAT POWER OF THE ANTI-CHRIST.[OF WHICH] YOU HEAD THAT IT COMES; AND NOW IT IS IN THE WORLD ALREADY. YOU OF GOD ARE, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM.
BECAUSE GREATER IS HE WHO IS IN YOU, THAN HE THOSE IN THE WORLD.”
THE WORDS “COME” “COME” “HAVE
OVERCOME” ARE HEAR IN THE PERFECT TENCE.
I’LL COME BACK TO ALL THAT SHORTLY.
TIME TO SEE HOW THE SCHOLAR J. P. GREEN SR. Ph.D. TRANSLATED THIS PASSAGE IN HIS GREEK / ENGLISH INTERLINEAR / CODED WITH STRONG’S CONCORDANCE NUMBER——
“BELOVED NOT EVERY SPIRIT BELIEVE, BUT TEST THE SPIRITS, IF OF GOD THEY ARE, BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS HAVE GONE FORTH INTO THE WORLD. BUT THIS KNOW THE SPIRIT OF GOD; EVERY SPIRIT WHICH CONFESSES JESUS CHRIST IN [THE] FLESH HAVING COME [2064], OF GOD IS. AND EVERY SPIRIT WHICH NOT CONFESSES JESUS CHRIST IN [THE] FLESH HAVING COME [2064] OF GOD NOT IS, AND THIS IS THE ANTICHRIST, WHICH YOU HEARD THAT IT IS COMING [2064] AND NOW IN THE WORLD IS ALREADY. YOU OF GOD ARE, LITTLE CHILDREN AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM, BECAUSE GREATER IS THE [ONE] IN YOU THAN THE ONE IN THE WORLD.”
STRONG’S NUMBER 2064 IS THE IMPORTANT GREEK TO NOTE——
STRONG’S CONCORDANCE SAYS—- “2064— ERCHOMAL— ER’KHOM-AHEE - MID. OF A PRIN. VERB [ONLY USED IN THE PRESENT AND IMPERFECT TENSES, THE OTHERS BEING SUPPLIED BY THE KINDRED [MID].
ELEUTHOMAL - EL-YOO-THOM-AHEE OR [ACT]
ELTHO - EL-THO; WHICH DO NOT OTHERWISE OCCUR; TO COME OR GO [IN A GREAT VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS, LIT. AND FIG.]— ACCOMPANY, APPEAR, BRING, COME ENTER, FALL OUT, GO, GROW, X LIGHT, X NEXT, PASS, RESORT, TO SET.
UNDER THIS WORD IN THE ANALYTICAL GREEK LEXICON WE READ— ACC. SING. MASC. PART, PERF 2.
NOW TO THE COMPLETE WORD STUDY NEW TESTAMENT [BRINGING THE ORIGINAL TEST TO LIFE] BY SPIROS ZODHIATES, Ph.D.
FOR THE WORD “COME” IN VERSE 2 AND VERSE 3—— HE PUTS PFP2064
THIS IS HIS SYTEM TO GIVE YOU STRONG’S NUMBER PLUS THE TENSES.
ON HIS CHART FOR PFP —— PERFECT PARTICIPLE ACTIVE
SO WE HAVE— THE PERFECT TENSE
I NOW GO ONCE MORE TO THE ANALYTICAL GREEK LEXICON FOR “THE USE OF THE TENSES”
“…… THE PERFECT CONVEYS THE DOUBLE NOTION OF AN ACTION TERMINATED IN THE PAST TIME, AND OF ITS EFFECT EXISTING IN THE PRESENT; AS 1 COR. 7: 39.
JESUS COMING AS A PHYSICAL HUMAN TO DIE FOR SINS; AND HIS RESURRECTION TO LIVE IN HIS DISCIPLES---- DEATH AND LIFE OF JESUS SAVES US--- ROMANS 5: 1-10. JUST ADMITTING JESUS CAME AS A HUMAN DOES NOT SAVE YOU; JUST THAT TRUTH DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE ON GOD'S TEAM, AS OPPOSED TO NOT BEING ON HIS TEAM. YOU HAVE TO HAVE JESUS AND THE FATHER IN YOU TO SAVE YOU, AS PAUL TOLD US IN ROMANS 5, AND AS HE REPEATED IN ROMANS 8.
SO WE HAVE JESUS CHRIST WHO CAME IN FLESH, BLOOD, BONE. IT WAS A ONE TIME ACTION OF GOD BEING MADE AS A HUMAN, BORN OF A PHYSICAL WOMAN. AND HIS LITERAL PHYSICAL BODY WAS TERMINATED AT HIS CRUCIFIXION DEATH. BUT THAT BEING SO, AND HIS BEING RAISED FROM DEATH TO GLORIOUS IMMORTALITY, THE EFFECT OF IT EXISTS IN THE PRESENT.
JESUS IS ALIVE, AND HE COMES IN THE PRESENT TO LIVE INSIDE HIS PHYSICAL DISCIPLES, THE CHILDREN OF GOD THE FATHER.
TO BE EVEN MORE CORRECT— BOTH THE FATHER AND SON COME TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT INSIDE TRUE CHRISTIANS, INSIDE FLESH AND BLOOD DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
JESUS.
THAT MIGHTY AND GREAT TRUTH IS FOUND IN JOHN 14: 23— “IF A MAN LOVE ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORDS, AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM; AND WE WILL COME UNTO HIM, AND MAKE OUR ABODE WITH HIM.”
JOHN IN 1 JOHN 4: 1-4 IS GIVING US THE FIRST AND NUMBER ONE TEST TO PROVE WHO TEACHES THE TRUTH OF GOD, AND WHO ARE THE ANTI-CHRISTS!
IT IS QUITE SIMPLE; THE NUMBER ONE TESTING OF THE SPIRITS, IS NOT SAYING JESUS WAS A HUMAN PERSON [FOR ALL ROMAN CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS TEACH THAT], BUT THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL TEACH THAT THE CONTINUAL FACT IS, JESUS WAS HUMAN, WAS FLESH AT ONE TIME, AND IS NOW EXISTING IN THE PRESENT BY COMING INTO PHYSICAL FLESH DISCIPLES, TO LIVE OVER AGAIN IN THE FLESH OF HIS DISCIPLES.
THAT IS WHY JOHN WENT ON TO SAY—— GREATER IS HE WHO IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD!
THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE WAS WRITTEN FOR THE FACT THAT THE GREEK AND/OR HEBREW CAN NOT CONVEY A CERTAIN WORD OR PHRASE, IN ENGLISH WITHOUT THE ENGLISH EXPANDING ON THE WORD. YES THERE IS TRUTH TO THIS AND THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE CAN THEN HAVE GREAT SERVICE FOR THE ENGLISH READER.
SO LET ME DO MY AMPLIFICATION OF 1 JOHN 4: 1-4.
“BELOVED, BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT [COMING FROM MAN], BUT TRY THE SPIRITS [PROVE WHO SPEAKS FROM GOD], WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD; BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD [THEY SPEAK NOT THE TRUTHS OF GOD].
HEREBY KNOW YOU THE SPIRIT OF GOD [THE MIND AND TRUTHS OF GOD]; EVERY SPIRIT [EVERY PERSON] THAT CONFESSES THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH [ HAS BEEN HUMAN AND IS COMING INTO FLESH OF HIS DISCIPLES, LIVING HIS LIFE OVER IN THEM].
AND EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSES NOT THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH [ONCE CAME AS A HUMAN BEING AND LIVES HIS LIFE AGAIN IN HIS FLESH DISCIPLES] IS NOT OF GOD; AND THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF ANTI-CHRIST, WHEREOF YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT SHOULD COME; AND EVEN NOW ALREADY IS IT IN THER WORLD.
YOU ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN [IN ATTITUDE OF MIND AND FAITH], AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM [BY KNOWING THE TRUTH] BECAUSE GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU [JESUS LIVING IN YOU] THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD [THE ONES INFLUENCED AND DECEIVED BY THE FORCES OF FALSE TEACHINGS].
HOW TO LIVE WITH JESUS IN YOU IS VERY SIMPLE; YOU STUDY THE GOSPELS; YOU SEE WHAT JESUS TAUGHT AND WHAT HE PRACTICED. AND SO JESUS COMING INTO HIS DISCIPLE WILL LIVE AGAIN AS SHOWN IN THE GOSPELS.
JESUS OBEYED THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, INCLUDING THE 4TH SABBATH COMMANDMENT. JESUS OBSERVED THE FEASTS OF GOD.
I WAS BLESSED AT ABOUT AGE 14, WHEN A LADY IN THE CHURCH I WAS ATTENDING SINCE I WAS 7, GAVE ME A RED LETTER NEW TESTAMENT, THE WORDS OF CHRIST IN RED. SHE SAID IT WAS A GIFT FROM HER BECAUSE OF MY FAITHFUL CHURCH ATTENDANCE. I HAD NEVER SEEN A RED LETTER NEW TESTAMENT. I WAS SO DELIGHTED TO HAVE IT. ALL THROUGH MY TEENAGE YEARS I READ SOME OF THE WORDS OF JESUS, EACH NIGHT BEFORE FALLING ASLEEP.
I READ THE GOSPEL WORDS OF JESUS OVER AND OVER DURING THOSE TEENAGE YEARS OF MINE.
I HAD A SOLID FOUNDATION!
WHEN I CAME TO CANADA AT AGE 18, AND MET THESE PROTESTANT FUNDAMENTAL GROUPS, WITH THEIR OVER-EMPHASIS ON GRACE AND THEIR OVER EMOTIONALISM, I WAS GROUNDED ON THE WORDS OF JESUS.
WHEN, I WAS 20 AND LEARNED SUNDAY WAS NOT THE 7TH DAY OF THE WEEK, I KNEW FROM THE WORDS OF CHRIST, ALL CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT CHURCHES, DID NOT HAVE JESUS IN THEM. WHEN I LEARNED MOST OF THEIR PRACTICES WERE NOT FROM THE BIBLE, BUT FROM PAGAN TRADITIONS OF MEN, AND MAN MADE, MAN INVENTED PRACTICES, I HAD THE SOLID WORDS OF JESUS TO KEEP ME GROUNDED IN TRUTH.
IT WAS EASY FOR ME TO PROVE WHO HAD JESUS COMING INTO THE FLESH.
FOR GREATER WAS HE IN ME, THAN ALL THOSE IN THE WORLD’S SO-CALLED CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.
IT WAS SHOCKING TO DISCOVER ALL THIS; BUT IT WAS ALL BEFORE ME; GOD WAS SAYING, “I HAVE BROUGHT YOU TO SEE THE TRUTH FROM THE ERROR; NOW WHAT WILL YOU DO?”
I DID WHAT ONLY A TRUE DISCIPLE OF JESUS CAN DO—— I CONTINUED TO FOLLOW JESUS!
Keith Hunt
P.S.
IF JOHN WAS WANTING TO ONLY CONVEY THE FACT OF JESUS GOD, COMING AS FLESH AND BLOOD TO EARTH; GOD IN THE FLESH [IMMANUEL], HE COULD HAVE EASILY CHOSEN, AND I CONTEND WOULD HAVE CHOSEN THE GREEK TENSE---- AORIST.
THIS TENSE IS EXPLAINED IN THE ANALYTICAL GREEK LEXICON----
"THE AORIST IS STRICTLY THE EXPRESSION OF A MOMENTARY OR TRANSIENT SINGLE ACTION, BEING THUS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE IMPERFECT; AND IN THE INDICATIVE MOOD IS ORDINARILY SIGNIFIES PAST ACTION. IT IS, HOWEVER, USED OF A PROLONGED ACTION, IF THERE IS NO POSITIVE NEED TO MAKE IT A DIRECT EXPRESSION OF THAT CIRCUMSTANCE. IT IS THUS OF CONSTANT USE IN THE NARRATIVE OF PAST TRANSACTIONS."
IF JOHN WAS GIVING THE BIG ONE TEST TO KNOW WHO WAS NOT OF GOD, THOSE WHO DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE JESUS IN THE PAST, CAME AS A HUMAN BEING; THEN THE AORIST TENSE HE WOULD SURELY HAVE CHOSEN. AS ONCE IN THE PAST JESUS CAME AS A HUMAN BEING---- ACTION PROLONGED BUT NOW IN THE PAST, OVER AND DONE WITH PERIOD.
IF THAT IS JOHN'S GREAT BIG FIRST ONE TEST; THEN IT IS A MIGHTY WEAK ONE; I MEAN A HUGE, MASSIVE, COLOSSAL WEAK TEST---- FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PROTESTANT CHURCHES TEACH JESUS DID COME AS A FLESH AND BLOOD HUMAN PERSON.
IF THAT WAS JOHN'S TEST WE ARE TO USE BETWEEN THE FALSE AND TRUE TEACHERS OF GOD---- WE AIN'T GOT NOWHERE; ON THE TABLE OF DIVIDING THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE, WE STILL HAVE THE CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT CHURCHES. ONLY A VERY VERY TINY BIT OF FALSE HAS FALLEN OFF THE DIVIDING TABLE. A VERY FEW, VERY FEW, TEACH JESUS WAS NEVER REALLY HUMAN.
MY EXPLANATION BLOWS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT CHURCHES OFF THE DIVIDING TABLE, BLOWS THEM AWAY INTO NEVER NEVER LAND, INTO THE LAND OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THE STUFF OF WALT DISNEY DREAMS AND NOT REALITY.
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