After decades of devoted studies I’ve concluded that knowing what to believe and what not to believe is difficult, sometimes almost impossible nowadays regardless of which subject we pick, secular or biblical but I’m pretty sure now that it was J N Darby and C I Schofield* who were largely responsible for the very recent ‘read literal where possible’ approach to Bible interpretation we see all throughout the UK today. Prior to that I’m led to believe it was more a case of ‘the Bible interprets the Bible’ and once we realise so much of the Bible is written poetically then we also realise that it’s critical that we understand something about both Greek and especially Hebrew figurative language.

Not everyone has time to study and for those whose calling lies elsewhere, below is a compact list of crucial and helpful terms and figures that I’m accumulating that every Christian should know regardless of individual calling, ones I’ve gleaned from various sources over the years and a list that continues to grow as my studies continue. I have been careful which ones to include as I do believe there are people deliberately introducing disinformation on even this subject, and these few below have stood the test of time for me so far. Please do feel free to correct me through if you can show biblically how any are clearly not correct, but I do know some are rather vague and require ‘fine tuning’ as my vision hopefully becomes ever clearer. And please remember too that context is King, and so often it is context which dictates differing meanings of the same word.

We’ll take just the first one here, Angels, as a prime example of why it is so very important to recognise figurative language. Malachi 2:7 says in the KJV ‘For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts’. Now, the LXX uses the Greek word ‘angelos’ for the word ‘messenger’ but context in Malachi clearly shows this ‘angel’ is a priest. Now go search all Paul’s use of the word Greek word ‘angelos’, translated ‘angel’, then swap it for ‘priest’ and see how often things start making sense, see if you’d agree with the KJV translators usage of the word to be ‘angels’ 97% of the time I think it is. If you’ve picked up anything at all from the deception spoken of in part two of this site you could possibly now see why we cannot and should not trust our Bible translations. That is just one example of many, that combined have convinced me there is a conspiracy to use subtly compromised Bible translations to support deceptive doctrine taught in churches today.

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LIST OF WORDS/PHRASES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

ANGELS – often messengers, inc priests

BEGOTTEN ‘only begotten’ -one of a ‘kind’. 

BEHEMOTH – beast (an unrestrained man) from the land, a Jew. 

BLOOD – often means death. 

CAST INTO OUTER DARKNESS – to be outside the covenant. 

CREATION – covenantal. He who believes in me will never die, is a new creation. Create, covenant and choose all have same Hebrew root. 

DARK – Chaos, without order. 

DEAD – A covenant status. Unfaithful to the covenant.

DUST – People. ‘From the dust’ is royal election.

EARTH (in prophecy) – where the prophet was sent. Maybe ‘the covenant land’ or area. 

EAST – seen as a forward direction.

EAT – to learn from something, the thing eaten becomes part of us . 

EDEN – Place where God operates ie in covenant. 

EL – Literally might, power ie Cedars of El. 

ELOHIM – A mighty one, a god, person etc Titles and names  have no distinction in Hebrew. See notes on ‘Plurals’ at the bottom.

FIRSTBORN – means highest in rank. 

FLESH – in the flesh, under The Law. Paul says the Law is spiritual so the flesh is man’s way v the spirit, Gods way.

FLESH – One flesh, shared kinship. 

GARDEN – A temple. A fenced off area.

 

HEAVEN (in prophecy) – covenant rulers, of the earth which are the covenant people ie the term heaven and earth is the covenant land/people. 

JEHOVAH – The righteous or judge like name ie aspect of God. 

KEYS – authority

KNOW – to own, to acknowledge or acknowledged as ones own. 

KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL – may mean sitting in judgement ie choosing ourselves what is right or wrong, Gods way or ours. 

LAND – Israel

LAW – 5 books of the Pentateuch. 

LAW – Man’s way. This was Adam’s choosing. 

LEVIATHAN – beast from the sea, a gentile

LIGHT – Order, structure. God’s ways. 

LIVING – A covenantal status, faithful to the covenant. 

LOCUSTS – Invading armies

LOGOS – see end 

OAK – An emblem of the Covenant. 

OUTER darkness is an ‘outside the covenant’ location. He who believes in me will never die, therefore death must be covenantal death. 

ONE FLESH shared kinship. 

ONLY BEGOTTEN only one of that kind. 

ROCK – Has reference to a covenant. See P319 Hutchinson ‘The Covenant in the Cherubim’.

SATAN – adversary, often the Jewish leadership. 

SEA – gentiles. Sea monsters are world empires.

SNAKES – religious leaders 

SON – a building block

SONS OF GOD – Faithful covenant people. Remember the meaning behind the word son is a building block. 

SPIRIT – God’s way. See ‘flesh’ and ‘Law’. 

SPIRIT – possibly? Used as a figure of speech in various combinations by the Hebrews to denote the greatest degree of any mental quality eg Luke 10:21 Jesus rejoiced in spirit ie exceedingly, and Acts 20:23 “behold, I go bound in the spirit into Jerusalem “i.e. with a fixed determination and a settled purpose.

THOUSAND – Fullness/completeness. Consider this carefully with regard to the so called Millennium, the completedness of the years. 

TYRE – Maybe gentiles. 

WIND – Maybe covenant life. 

WORLD – specifically the Greek ‘kosmos’. NOT our modern undertaking of this planet but, an ordered system. Context dictates it’s huge variation in meaning. Worth reading https://www.preceptaustin.org/world-kosmos

WORLD – Oikoumene. The place inhabited by Greeks. Later, the whole Roman Empire. 

WORLD – Aion. “a space or period of time,” especially “a lifetime, life.” It is used of one’s time of life, age, the age of man, an age, a generation. It also means “a long space of time, eternity, forever, a dispensation”. 

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LOGOS

Adam was to subdue and have dominion, meaning he was created as the image of Logos. The image of the Logos had the capacity to maintain the covenant in accordance with the divine pattern, not simply to observe it. Logos or rationality had a particular meaning at that time, and it had mainly to do with the capacity of the human being to collect what is diversified and even fragmented in this world and make a beautiful and harmonious world (cosmos) out of that. Rationality was not, as it came to be understood later, simply a capacity to reason with one’s mind. Instead, as the ancient Greeks thought of logos, it is man’s capacity to achieve the unity of the world and to make a cosmos out of it. Man has the capacity to unite the world.

Sadly, I’ve forgotten where I discovered that text from but now read John 1:1 and it makes more sense now, doesn’t it?! John is telling his Greek audience that Jesus is the man, the Logos, who unites the world, he is not telling us our Bibles (the Word) are God, which some guys once taught me.

PLURALS – Another very very useful piece of knowledge I learned is that Hebrew plurals are qualitive as well as quantitative. Again, context dictates when words like Elohim for example mean many gods (which may simply mean many important men or one important man) or the One and only superior God. That is absolutely critical when trying to work out our correct doctrine and if we’re being deceived by anyone’s teaching.

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NOTE* Just as with all scientific studies today it’s so important to try to find out who bankrolls the research, similarly here, if we spend just 5 minutes digging under surface level it’s important to note we soon find links to funding from wealthy Zionists.