DAQQ and NIG spiral into nonsense while Chrys returns from his banishment to continue an ongoing conversation with himself. So much for this thread.
While we are on the subject, how does one unsubscribe to a thread. I haven't been able to spot that thingy since the latest upgrade and I'm guessing that using this function from time to time would save the site a little bandwidth.
Ah, good morning, what a great sleep, like the watch in a thousand-year night beside the Master.
Actually we were on-topic but it is much like the scripture, that is, speaking surface things while a deeper truth lies beneath if one does not truly know the scripture. Have you not read 2Peter which speaks of what I said in my previous post? We also spoke of thorns in the flesh and other supernal things that are found in the scripture. For starters the passage from 2Peter can be understood in two ways but the physical minded man always sees only what is to his own benefit: and what is to his own benefit in this case? He presumes to himself the right as a believer to a coming literal physical 1000-year rule and reign, upon a literal physical earth, in a literal physical global world dominion empire, with himself ruling over what I can only imagine he assumes to be the "lesser brethren sheeple" who were lucky enough to make it through seven years of a world-wide destruction were Elohim literally kills one third of mankind and the other two thirds do not repent, (Rev 9:15-21 taken literally by the carnal and physical minded warmonger man). But if one reads the passage from 2Peter it is clear as day that a thousand years may also be ONE DAY depending on the perception and the mindset of the reader:
2 Peter 3:8 W/H
8 εν δε τουτο μη λανθανετω υμας αγαπητοι οτι μια ημερα παρα κυριω ως χιλια ετη και χιλια ετη ως ημερα μια
8 But this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with-beside the Master is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as day one.
What therefore does the statement strongly imply? It strongly implies that one day with or beside the Master may as well be a thousand years. This thinking likewise comes from the only holy scriptures that were available at the time this may have been written, which is the Tanach, that is, the Torah, Prophets, and Writings. The authorship of Psalm 90 is claimed by Moshe himself at the opening of the Psalm, which says this:
Psalm 90:1-4 KJV
1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Thus we can be sure that in the time of king David and his son, king Solomon, this prayer of Moshe the man of the Elohim was known. So what does Solomon tell us about a thousand years? Does the Preacher say anything about a thousand years? Yes, he does:
Ecclesiastes 6:6 KJV
6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
What does he mean a thousand years twice told? The word used here actually means twice times, which is pa'amayim, from pa'am, which means a beat, like a heartbeat, a pulse, or a moment, or a "time", and in more general terms "an occasion" or the instance of an occurrence. Do the authors of our holy texts speak of things they know nothing about? Surely the Preacher knows of what he speaks: would you not agree? How then does he know what it means to live a thousand years twice told, twice times, or two times? The answer is found in another place which employs the same word pa'am-pa'amiym-pa'amayim, and that is where we read how the Father made Himself known to Solomon on two occasions, twice times, twofold, two times:
1 Kings 11:9
9 And YHWH was displeased with Solomon, because his heart was turned from YHWH Elohey Yisrael, which had made an appearance unto him twice: [pa'amayim - two times]
Therefore indeed the Preacher knew what it meant to live a thousand years two times; for the Most High had made Himself known by way of visions two times unto Solomon. These two appearances therefore constitute a thousand years each in the mind of the Preacher, though his heart was turned away in latter days, (but that does not mean he never repented). And this word pa'am goes all the way back to the beginning where it is used of the helpmate, (the flesh), that is to say the first woman, like a thorn in the side of man, for the scripture says:
Genesis 2:22-23
22 And of the rib, which YHWH Elohim had taken from the adam, He made an iyshshah-woman, and brought her unto the adam.
23 And the adam said, This ha-pa'am is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called ishshah-woman; for out of an iysh-man this was taken!
Paraphrase: this pa'am-heartbeat-pulsating-agitating thorn in my flesh that was beating to come forth is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh! And what does the woman become when she is deceived by the serpent? She becomes a messenger of Satan because she then gives to the man from what she herself did, and he does likewise, and they fall. Eve is therefore an allegory of the flesh, (the mother of all chay-raw-life). Therefore Paul says; do not allow your flesh to speak for you, do not allow her to teach or have superiority over a man: she is deceived. It is not a commandment about those who are female gender on the outside but rather about the allegory of the flesh of all mankind, which is called Eve, and utterly deceived. It is only the flesh which can be "saved" through child birth because it speaks of physical procreation and the continuance of a strictly physical seed line. Oh the depth of the riches of the knowledge that is in Messiah the Word! The kingdom of Elohim is within you; but sin, evil beasts of man, and all sorts of evil things dwell in the flesh outer bounds common profane area of your body-temple. Perhaps I will be back in another thousand years; but if not, have a nice thread. :chuckle: