Mark 16: 15-20 The Apostels Doctrine

                                                    Jos 4:1 ASV - And it came to pass, when all the nation were Clean passed over the Jordan, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,      Jos 4:2 ASV - Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.  Jhn 15:3   Already ye are Clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.                            Clean       tä·mam'  Hebrew    to be complete, be finished, be at an end , to be finished, be completed
1.    completely, wholly, entirely (as auxiliary with verb)
to be finished, come to an end, cease
to be complete (of number)
to be consumed, be exhausted, be spent

Clean in the Greek  
clean, pure

1. physically
   
   1. purified by fire
   2. in a similitude, like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit

1Th 5:22 ASV - abstain from every form of evil.  Holiness comes through Christ we are the righteousness of God through Christ.   1Pe 1:15 ASV - but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;   Your God requires sanctification from this world,  that you separate your self's from this world and be ye holy.   I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.   Jhn 3:6 ASV - That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.    Rom 8:2 ASV - For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
1Co 15:56 ASV - The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
1Jo 2:15 ASV - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Jhn 15:19 ASV - If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
1Jo 3:1 ASV - Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
1Th 5:23 ASV - And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
  

Jordan = "descender" Whole (Made), Wholly, Wholesome:   Greek: holoteles"wholly," 1Th 5:23, is lit., "whole-complete" (A, No. 1, and telos, "an end"), i.e., "through and through;" the Apostle's desire is that the sanctification of the believer may extend to every part of his being. The word is similar in meaning to No. 4; holokleros draws attention to the person as a "whole," holoteles, to the several parts which constitute him.

Jos 4:2 ASV - Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,         Mat 10:2 ASV - Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
Rev 21:14 ASV - And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.                                                                                                  Mat 16:15 ASV - He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am?
Mat 16:16 ASV - And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mat 16:17 ASV - And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 16:18 ASV - And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19 ASV - I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.    Jos 4-2   This scripture is another type and shadow a prophecy of the coming salvation of the whole creation.  Everything is hinged upon the coming of Christ and he came to show us who is the father.  The twelve stones are the Apostles doctrine the word made flesh and he dwell among them .  What does Genesis have to do with Revelations it has Everything to do with man today based on his salvation .                Jhn 1:1 ASV - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jhn 1:2 ASV - The same was in the beginning with God.
Jhn 1:3 ASV - All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.
 Jos 4:3 ASV - and command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night.
Jos 4:4 ASV - Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:        This is prophetic as to when Jesus chose out twelve men to be the messengers of his fathers gospel to be Apostles  ,             2Co 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.                2Co 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Rom 16:17 ASV - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.
Eph 4:14 ASV - that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
1Ti 6:3 ASV - If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
Jos 4:5 ASV - and Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;       The stone the builders rejected Christ the corner stone ,   These men were a type a shadow of the Apostles in the scripture  Luk 6:13 ASV - And when it was day, he called his disciples; and he chose from them twelve, whom also he named apostles:    They carried this stone upon their shoulders they also had a cross to carry ,  this was not a small stone it was symbolic of the great weight of the gospel that Jesus told Peter I will build my church upon this truth this foundation .     Luk 24:44 ASV - And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me.      Act 9:15 ASV - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel:
Act 9:16 ASV - for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Jos 4:6 ASV - that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?     Matt 12:39  But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.     Luke 11:30   For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.  

Jos 4:7 ASV - then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever .      Jos 3 :16 ASV   that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.    The city of Adam another type and shadow of the coming of the Messiah .  Jesus spoke of a cross for every man to bear an instrument of suffering .  Is was his final destination for his life on this earth and he became our Passover Lamb ,  he bore the sins of the world unto remission,  he became that physical sacrifice for our spiritual sacrifice.   
1Co 15:42 ASV - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43 ASV - it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1Co 15:44 ASV - it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 ASV - So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Co 15:46 ASV - Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47 ASV - The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.

The first Adam has mankind cut off through the nature of the flesh being born of Adam and his curse,  just as the harvest water had the children of God cut off from their promise land .   It is about death , burial and resurrection  The serpent on the pole that Moses rose up before the plague of the fiery serpent , it stood between the children and the plague of death  . A brass serpent on the pole ,    and the pole being the cross and the brass was a symbol of sin and the judgement of sin.   Isa 53:12 ASV - Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.


 Jos 3:15 ASV - and when they that bare the ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,)    It was the time of Harvest . 
Jhn 4:35 ASV - Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.
  Harvest:    Greek: therismos      the crop," figuratively, Mat 9:37, 38; Luk 10:2; Rev 14:15. The beginning of "harvest" varied according to natural conditions, but took place on the average about the middle of April in the eastern lowlands of Palestine, in the latter part of the month in the coast plains and a little later in high districts. Barley "harvest" usually came first and then wheat. "Harvesting" lasted about seven weeks, and was the occasion of festivities.
This is more than symbolic it is prophetic to our day ,  they were separated from their promised land by this great river of flooding .  It is the waters of separation being obedient to the gospel of Jesus Christ and he was sent to preach his fathers gospel .       Mar 1:14 ASV - Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, 
Eph 5:25 ASV - Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Eph 5:26 ASV - that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
Eph 5:27 ASV - that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Jesus said it is a commandant to be baptized in water for the remission of your sins ,  Jesus told John the baptist to baptize him so that all Righteousness may be fulfilled .         Act 1:5 ASV - For John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.
Act 2:38 ASV - And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
1Pe 3:18 ASV - Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
1Pe 3:19 ASV - in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
1Pe 3:20 ASV - that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
1Pe 3:21 ASV - which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

     Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.

And it came to pass, when all the nation were CLEAN passed over the Jordan, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,       Clean       tä·mam'  Hebrew    to be complete, be finished, be at an end , to be finished, be completed
1.    completely, wholly, entirely (as auxiliary with verb)
to be finished, come to an end, cease
to be complete (of number)
to be consumed, be exhausted, be spent
Jordan = "descender"
1.    the river of Palestine running from the roots of Anti-Lebanon to the Dead Sea a distance of approx 200 miles (320 km)
This is a spiritual type of water baptism for the children of Israel , a type and a shadow of better things to come . The better things to come is Jesus Christ and his sacrifice unto eternal salvation.     Death ,burial and resurrection .
1Co 15:42 ASV 1Co 15:42 ASV - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43 ASV - it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1Co 15:44 ASV - it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 ASV - So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Co 15:46 ASV - Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47 ASV - The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
1Co 15:43 ASV - it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1Co 15:44 ASV - it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 ASV - So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Co 15:46 ASV - Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47 ASV - The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.

An Abiding City ,The City Which Is To Come

                                             
 Mat 24:14 ASV - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.
Mat 24:15 ASV - When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),
Mat 24:16 ASV - then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:
Mat 24:17 ASV - let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house:   Mat 24:18 ASV - and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak
Mat 13:38 ASV - and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom;           They obey the true gospel of God they are  sons of God !         and the tares are the sons of the evil one;  The sons of the evil one are they that have believed the false Gospel of men,   another gospel.  No repentance in their life or they have a repentance that is regretted  !     not being truly sorry for their sins.   2Co 7:10 ASV - For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.  
 There is no cross in their Gospel no sacrifice of their flesh .   Rom 12:1    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.   Jesus said all true believers have a cross to bear , a cross is an instrument suffering , putting to death the deeds of our flesh .  Our altar is our cross , we fall on our cross daily and pour out our life before the Lord he righteous and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanses us of all unrighteousness .  If we fail the Lord he does not condemn us he leads us into paths of righteousness for his name sake.   If we are faithless he remains faithful because he cannot deny himself.  You are the righteousness of God in Christ .  if we Love him we will obey his commandants , if we call him Lord than we follow what his word tells us which is the way the truth and the Life .
Mat 10:38 ASV - And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.    Phl 3:10 ASV - that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;   Power  Ability, Able:   Greek: dunamis"power, ability," physical or moral, as residing in a person or thing;  Resurrection:    Greek: anastasis  "a raising up," or "rising" (ana, "up," and histemi, "to cause to stand"), Luk 2:34, "the rising up;" the AV "again" obscures the meaning; the Child would be like a stone against which many in Israel would stumble while many others would find in its strength and firmness a means of their salvation and spiritual life;
Sufferings   Afflict (-ed), Affliction:   Greek: pathemab   of the sufferings of Christ, signifies "destined to suffer from pathos, "suffering," signifies "affliction
Conformed    Conformed, Conformable: Greek: summorphizo  "to make of like form with another person or thing, to render like" (sun, "with," morphe, "a form"), is found in Phl 3:10 (in the Passive Participle of the verb), "becoming conformed" (or "growing into conformity") to the death of Christ, indicating the practical apprehension of the death of the carnal self, and fulfilling his share of the sufferings following upon the sufferings of Christ
1Co 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.  Rom 8:3 ASV - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:    It is very important here to grasp water baptism and the revelation of that commandant .  Jesus was baptized by John , he had no sin in him he was the Lamb with out spot or wrinkle.  John said as he saw him coming behold the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world .  There is no shadow in his turning he was the light of the word coming into man Jhn 1:4 ASV - In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
  Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
( 1Pe 4:7 ASV - But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer: )  ,   This verse catches men unaware of the signs of the times ( We thought we had more time  )   Living a worldly life being influenced by the world and the lust of that worldly life.   V 38    and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one.                                                                                                                     
  1Co 15:36 ASV - Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:
1Co 15:37 ASV - and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;
1Co 15:38 ASV - but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
1Co 15:41 ASV - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
1Co 15:42 ASV - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43 ASV - it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
 Rom 12:2 ASV - And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.         Conformed  Rom 12:2 being outwardly "conformed" to the things of this age is contrasted with being "transformed" (or transfigured) inwardly by the renewal of the thoughts through the Holy Spirit's power. A similar distinction holds good in Phl 3:21; the Lord will "fashion anew," or change outwardly, the body of our humiliation, and "conform" it in its nature (summorphos) to the body of His glory  to conform one's self (i.e. one's mind and character) to another's pattern, (fashion one's self according to)
Mat 13:23 ASV - And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.     Jesus said he must go away so the promise of the father will come .
 Luk 24:49 ASV - And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.    Jesus told Nicodemus you must  be born again of the water and the spirit .  The water is the word of God the washing of regeneration the washing of the pure word .  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.   the body the bride of Christ .   Body Greek: soma Body, Bodily:      The word is also used for physical nature, as distinct from pneuma, "the spiritual nature," e.g., 1Cr 5:3, and from psuche, "the soul," e.g., 1Th 5:23. "Soma, 'body,' and pneuma, 'spirit,' may be separated; pneuma and psuche, 'soul,' can only be distinguished   It is also used metaphorically, of the mystic Body of Christ, with reference to the whole Church, e.g., Eph 1:23; Col 1:18, 22, 24; also of a local church, 1Cr 12:27
Col 1:26 ASV - even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,
Col 1:27 ASV - to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
 Jhn 1:18 ASV - No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.    Jesus came to show the father to the world ,         Jhn 14:6 ASV - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jhn 14:7 ASV - If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Jhn 14:8 ASV - Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.  It is imperative that the called of God understand the truth of this verse ,  to be truly born of God is to be filled with his spirit , endued with his power .   Mark 16 is still alive and working with the power Jesus spoke of .    Jhn 1:12 ASV - But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Jhn 1:13 ASV - who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God  .   That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.    1Co 15:45 ASV - So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.   Adam gave us his flesh and Jesus gave us eternal life .  Rom 5:10 ASV - For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
2Co 5:18 ASV - But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;
Col 1:22 ASV - yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

Jhn 14:9 ASV - Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?   Jesus said his father is   spirit and those that worship him must worship him in truth and in Spirit .  2Co 5:16 ASV - Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
2Co 5:17 ASV - Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.  
Jhn 14:10 ASV - Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.

Mat 13:24 ASV - Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field:
Mat 13:25 ASV - but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.         Slept  Asleep, Sleep:   Greek: katheudo   of carnal indifference to spiritual things on the part of believers, Eph 5:14; 1Th 5:6, 10 (as in Mar 13:36), a condition of insensibility to Divine things involving conformity to the world  to be indifferent to one's salvation . Another sobering verse is of the ten virgins                              Matt 25 :1-13   
Virgin        of "a local church" in its relation to Christ, 2Cr 11:2;
(f) metaphorically of "chaste persons," Rev 14:4.
  a man who has abstained from all uncleanness and whoredom attendant on idolatry, and so has kept his chastity  .   
Rev 21:2 ASV - And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven of God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
Bride, Bridechamber, Bridegroom:  Greek: numphe
For the relationship between Christ and a local church, under this figure, see 2Cr 11:2; regarding the whole Church, Eph 5:23-32; Rev 22:17. 
The Holy the Elect the body of Christ    Gal 3:28 ASV - There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.        Mar 12:25 ASV - For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven.
Mat 13:37 ASV - And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
Asleep, Sleep:   Greek: katheudo   of carnal indifference to spiritual things on the part of believers, Eph 5:14; 1Th 5:6, 10 (as in Mar 13:36), a condition of insensibility to Divine things involving conformity to the world  to be indifferent to one's salvation
Mat 24:18 ASV - and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
FIELD  Country:    Greek: agros denotes "a field, especially a cultivated field;" hence, "the country" in contrast to the town (Eng., "agrarian, agriculture"), e.g., Mar 5:14; 6:36; 15:21; 16:12; Luk 8:34; 9:12 (plural, lit., "fields"); 23:26; a piece of ground, e.g., Mar 10:29; Act 4:37.
 Cloak          Apparel, Apparelled:   Greek: himation
a diminutive of heima, "a robe," was used especially of an outer cloak or mantle, and in general of raiment, "apparel" in 1Pe 3:3. The word is not in the original in the next verse, but is supplied in English to complete the sentence.
See CLOTHING, No. 2, GARMENT, RAIMENT, ROBE.                    
 1Co 15:47 ASV - The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
1Co 15:49 ASV - And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 

Mat 24:19 ASV - But woe unto them that are with Child and to them that give suck in those days!        Child   Ability, Able:   Greek: echo
"to have," is translated "your ability" in 2Cr 8:11, and "ye may be able" in 2Pe 1:15, and is equivalent to the phrase "to have the means of."
Suck     Suck (Give Suck), Suckling:     Greek: thelazo
from thele, "a breast," is used
(a) of the mother, "to suckle," Mat 24:19; Mar 13:17; Luk 21:23; in some texts in Luk 23:29 (the best have trepho);
(b) of the young, "to suck," Mat 21:16, "sucklings;" Luk 11:27.
 But solid food is for fullgrown men ,     For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.     For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.     But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil .      Skilled in the word of righteousness
This verse runs parallel with  1Co 13:10-13      ASV - but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.    If all the gifts are gone then so must the gift of faith also right . The bible says Rom 11:29 ASV - For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.     It is coming into a mature man being made into the image of Christ himself ,  growing up into all things righteous . God had to have a body to manifest himself to the world ,  but that body died and resurrected in newness of life .  1Co 15:53 ASV - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 ASV - But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Pe 1:23 ASV - having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
Mat 24:14 ASV - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.
Mat 24:15 ASV - When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),
Mat 24:16 ASV - then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:
Mat 24:17 ASV - let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house:    1Co 3:1 ASV - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.  The four verses above are speaking of a mans spiritual condition .        Heb 5:12 ASV - For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
Heb 5:13 ASV - For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
Heb 5:14 ASV - But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to Discern Good and Evil. !
 Luk 11:27 ASV - And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck.         This woman was  Comparing the spiritual to the flesh       Jhn 3:6 ASV - That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.    We are no longer children    Luk 11:28 ASV - But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.                    Luk 8:20 ASV - And it was told him, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
Luk 8:21 ASV - But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these that hear the word of God, and do it.     The body of Christ
The great hindrance  to Gods called people in his Church today  ,  is the belief that all of this died ceased with the last Apostle .         It is called the doctrine of cessation  ,  it is what the bible calls doctrine of men.     1Ti 4:1 ASV - But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
1Ti 4:2 ASV - through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;   
Mar 7:13 ASV - making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
    Corban   a gift offered to God," Mar 7:11. Jews were much addicted to rash vows; a saying of the Rabbis was, "It is hard for the parents, but the law is clear, vows must be kept."    Mark 7:11   Another gospel a law unto themselves ,  neglecting the true word for another word.   I believe that pride motivated this error these men are like the same men that would stand up and pray loud repetitious prayers just to be heard ,  religious and proud . And Jesus said they are neglecting their mothers and fathers .  Making void the word of God

    This word below must be operating in the church,  the ministry Jesus gave to his church for the perfecting of his children.  It is his promise his word  of grace to his church.                
 Heb    2:1 ASV - Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them.
Heb 2:2 ASV - For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
Heb 2:3 ASV - how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;
Heb 2:4 ASV - God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.      Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
Mar 16:17 ASV - And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mar 16:18 ASV - they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Eph 4:11 ASV - And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph 4:12 ASV - for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:13 ASV - till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Eph 4:14 ASV - that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
Eph 4:15 ASV - but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;
 Heb 4:9 ASV - There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.
                                                                                     

A Stay Of Execution

         
                     There is a word below from a brother living in America .   A blog he wrote recently, and I consider it a confirmation to the recent things I have felt in my spirit and related to you in my previous blogs .  The Lord has given us a stay of judgement for a time of testing .  It is a time of repentance and getting into the presence of God daily.    Getting alone in our closets and waiting on the Lord .     There was women waking from a dream just days before the election said the Lord spoke to her that there would be five days of grace coming for this nation.   And I know there are many people that have been praying faithfully for this very thing , That our father would give us Grace and Mercy ,    a stay of judgement for the lost yet to come and the ones living in sin not living a faithful life before the Lord .  As I was praying one morning I was reminded of Lot and his living in Sodom , just as today .      The bible says that Abraham standing before the Lord ask if there be fifty righteous will you spare the city .  The Lord said if there be fifty yes I will spare the city  .      Abraham pleaded with God all the way down to ten if there be ten Lord will you spare the city .    The Lord said if there be ten I will spare the city .  God was merciful to Lot and his family yet they had to be dragged out of Sodom by there hands Angels were sent to deliver Lot and his family  .

Gen 18:32 ASV - And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.
Gen 19:29 ASV - And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
It says that God remembered Abraham and his pleading for mercy for the souls of men , Lot and his family .  There was only one righteous soul in Sodom it was Lot ! and God brought them out by the hands of angels .

2Pe 2:6 ASV - and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 ASV - and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked.   Are we living in a place like Sodom today is judgement of God still coming to this nation .  The word in Matt 24 says yes and his mercy has been extended to this nation for a season with this recent election .

Rev 22:10 ASV - And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 ASV - He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.
Rev 22:12 ASV - Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.

   A stay of execution    by Michael Boldea Jr.

A stay of execution does not a pardon make. I realize that for the individual being walked up the gallows, feeling the rough noose slipping over his head and feeling it tighten around his neck the distinction is meaningless at best, but once he has had time to process, once he has had time to assess, once he has time to come to terms with the reality that he will live to see another sunrise, eventually, inevitably, he will be confronted with the unyielding reality that sooner or later the walk down the gallows will commence anew, and the feel of the tightening rope will once more be a reality.

What happened in America last night was a stay of execution. It was not a pardon. We must be very clear about this because I know as surely as I am sitting here that the voices will begin to chirp anew insisting that God has somehow forgiven a nation that never repented of its sins, and that He has somehow restored a nation that has never humbled itself. Just because we managed to dodge a protracted, painful, and pernicious suicide by political correctness last night, it does not mean that we have somehow come into fellowship with God anew as a nation.

It simply means that God has shown this nation grace, He has stayed its judgment for a season, and if true change is not evident beginning with the church and sweeping out from there, when next He weighs us, when next He will be called upon to once more decide whether He will stay our execution or allow judgment to be poured forth, we will be judged not only for what we are profoundly guilty of up until this point, but also for the season of grace we will have once again squandered from here on in.

Yes, I do believe last night was an act of sovereign grace. If this election had gone the other way, I am certain we would have been at war with Russia within six months of Madame Chairman Rodham being sworn in, and that the persecution against the household of faith would have been accelerated to a breakneck speed. ­­­

A merciful God has once more shown this nation mercy, and now it is up to us to decide what we will do with the mercy we’ve been given. It is up to us to decide what we will do with the reprieve and stay of execution that was handed down by the Judge of the Universe.

This is just the first of many critical moments we will have to face as a nation, and if you think it will be rainbows and kittens from here on in you are fooling yourself.

So, yes, take a second, breathe a sigh of relief, say a prayer of thanks, enjoy the sunshine on your face, but then roll up your sleeves and get to work. Not tonight, not tomorrow, not next week, not whenever we get around to it and we have nothing left on our agenda.

The countdown clock has already started ticking, and in what will seem like the blink of an eye this nation’s case will once more be up for review. What we do from this point to that will determine whether we still have a future, and whether our stay of execution will once more be extended.

Do I believe that we’ve avoided judgment altogether? No, I do not, but the best we could have ever hoped for was a reprieve, a delay, a season of grace wherein we could return to the purity of simply being about our Father’s business and preaching Jesus unashamedly once more.


We have so much work to do, and time is shorter than we might think.

With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.