Interesting that you see the priests as being types of Adam, this sheds light on the Messiah as being the new Adam, and also a Melchizadekian priest.

Preach! That was a great presentarion. In going to go back to the beginning and do the whole series. Thanks.

You are amazing!

@DiscipleDojo

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Scripture is amazing. :)

Its worth doing a permaculture design course. Many of these ancient forms of horticulture are recovered and it brings a much deeper meaning to these texts.

The series had perfect timing for me. I've been following your Ruth's Chris Bible study podcast and I just got to Leviticus 20 when this series started.

19:46 if we use LXX, we see the same name, number, and order of stones in Exodus High Priest’s Breastplate and the King of Tyre passage.

Excellent Hebrew Cosmology series. God bless. *Gonna give this video a Like.

@DiscipleDojo

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Much appreciated!

This is really good material and well presented. I like the weaving together of different issues like cosmic geography and eschatology and creation issues. A year or two back after reading John Walton's book Spirits and Demons in Biblical Theology I tried to connect the dots between the creation accounts and the new creation accounts (which arrives at "the end" and is therefore eschatological). At the creation there is the snake and at the new creation the ancient snake is destroyed, so the topic also connects with the "spirits and demons" and Satan topic too. These mullti-topic connections and integrations are the most interesting area for me, but it is the most difficult to discuss and express yourself on. Walton has a lot of good work on understanding the creation accounts, and his angle is that what is being described is not a material creation but a functional creation. I think it is also a legal, institutional and political creation of man, in the male-female configuration, to rule the "animals" (or the "beasts") rather than for men to rule over other men. But the "beast" man is to rule is sin (e.g. Gen. 4:7) and it is also the embodiment of sin into political creations such as dynasties, patriarchies, kingdoms and empires, such as Egypt, the sea monster Rahab etc. The biblical story is that Israel is created and saved out of Egypt, but then she returns to Egypt when she breaks the covenant and becomes Egypt. Israel ultimately becomes "the beast" that is destroyed at the eschaton, she becomes the Old Creation, the body of sin, the body of Moses, the corpse to be eaten by the vultures. She also becomes the brood of vipers (e.g. Mat. 3, 23) and the ancient serpent, the sea monster, the dragon (Is. 27:1) to be slain by YHWH's terrible sword. Every time the Lord and the New Testament writers refer or allude to Daniel's prophecies of judgement against the Fourth Beast and against the feet of iron and clay, they apply it to the judgement of Israel: for example, the Lord applies the judgement of the rock that smashes the feet of iron and clay to Israel in Mat. 21:33-45 and the flood judgement against the Second Temple in Dan. 9:24-27 to the "house" of those who rejected the gospel (Mat. 7:24-27; cf. 23:38). The judgement of the Son of Man coming on the clouds to destroy the Fourth Beast's little horn, and the Fourth Beast itself, the Lord applies to the destruction of the Second Temple in Mat. 24:15-21. And to himself coming in judgement upon the Sanhedrin that condemned him (Mat. 26:64). The Son of Man comes in judgement when the tribes of the land mourn (Mat. 24:30; Rev. 1:7). Ultimately, if the original creation is about the creation of man into a social and political and civilisation system, a creation that is marred by sin and political developments (the grasping for power in the knowledge of good and evil, and the building by men of "names" (dynasties) for themselves, the emergence of the "mighty men" war lords etc.), and if the new creation is the downfall of the Old Creation of wayward Israel which has become Egypt and Sodom (Rev. 11:8 cf. Deut. 32) at the judgement of the Great City "where their Lord was crucified" (Rev. 11:7) in the First Century, and if Satan and the devil are "the ancient serpent" of Is. 27:1 (i.e. wayward Israel), then the new creation is not a physical re-creation of the material world but the spiritual re-creation of God's people into a new body. Anyway, the reason I originally planned to comment was to ask you about the relationship between resurrection and the cosmological and spiritual system that your video is mostly about. When a man dies he goes down into the earth, he goes into the waters below the land, he goes into the underworld Sheol by means of the abyss of water. Given that, based on your video, this downward journey describes the man's loss of access to life and order, and him being swallowed up by the chaos monsters etc. doesn't this mean that the language has to be taken in a metaphorical sense? Sure, they believed in the system as a more-or-less physical cosmology as well, the personal journey into death seems to be expressing the loss of the man's access to the knowledge and functions of life under the sun living on the land rather than some non-material "part" of the man, his soul or shade, separating from his body and "going" somewhere, to a "place" called Sheol. And, isn't the converse also true? If a man is said to ascend to heaven, and to arrive on the cosmic mountain and to sit among the stars, and to become a god or a son of god, or when we are said to "sit in heavenly places" (Eph. 2), doesn't that also refer to his political and spiritual advancement into the world of power, order and extended life? If this language, both in the upward and the downward direction refers issues of function, status and/or moral position, doesn't this make resurrection primarily about one's status and level of functioning in the world rather than a) about some non-physical "part" of a man that "goes" somewhere or b) about his physical re-constitution and restoration of physical life to one's corpse? Doesn't Heb. 12:22-24 mean that we have come to the new creation, that we have come to the Mountian of God, to the Divine Council, to the New Jerusalem, and the Heavenly Country not in any physical sense? Granted, the vast majority of resurrection language examples are obviously not talking about physical bodies, but the above issues seem to address the other cases where, perhaps, the language might be more ambiguous.

@DiscipleDojo

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I'm not sure what you're asking. Can you condense it into a single question? :-)

@hillaryfamily

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@@DiscipleDojo How do you think the "journey" language of death, going down to Sheol, should be interpreted? Metaphorically or literally or functionally?

Wow Wow Wow, all your videos are excellent but this one knocked it out of the park. I got goose bumps. Well done!

@DiscipleDojo

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Thank you so much!

Hi JM… Excellent teaching as usual… THANK YOU! One question as I watch. When you talk through the Hebrew/English (at around time stamp 12:20 -ish, you mention that a certain Hebrew word can either be interpreted as ‘eastward’ or ‘earlier’… both fitting, but people hold significance for both (paraphrasing) Question… Do we know today, whether or not, the ancients living in the Near East had any concept of north, south, east or west, as we know it upon our own compass points? After thought… I could look it up I guess, but I like to keep in touch. :)

@DiscipleDojo

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Yes, biblical Hebrew has terms for the cardinal directions, but they had multiple meanings. Yam = West...and also "sea" (as the Mediterranean was West) for instance.

@djpodesta

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@@DiscipleDojo Ok… I think I understand. It just hit when you interpreted ‘eastward.’ from the Hebrew.

@djpodesta

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@@DiscipleDojo Hah! I love it when I am graced with multiple learning points during my down time from work. East: Qedem, Mizrach, Motsa West: Yam, Ma’arav, Achor South: Negev, Darom, Teman, Yamin North: Tsafon, Smol Even with ‘Qedem’ (east) - Did it first mean; forward; toward the rising sun and ‘ancient’ kingdoms (of Babylon, Sumer, etc) Or did it first mean ‘ancient’ because of the direction of the ancient kingdoms. Or a third, unsubstantiated name/location/existence of another ancient kingdom/tribe just east of the Dead Sea area… with the Dead Sea also known as the Eastern Sea, or Ancient Sea; ‘Qadmoni’ Sea. I hope you don’t mind me sharing my thoughts with you James.

Hi, I am very interested in your videos, could you please let me know the reference for the Aftar myth?

@DiscipleDojo

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It's from the Ba'lu (Baal) Myth in Context of Scripture vol.1

Hey, thanks for sharing! Do you have your audio version of your videos in Audea?

@DiscipleDojo

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I don't know what Audea is, I'm afraid.