April 10, 2017 Details in Greek Scriptures Not Mentioned in Hebrew Scriptures Salmon became father to Boaz by Rahab. (Matthew 1:5) Have you not read what David did when he and the men with him were hungry? How he entered into the house of God and they ate the loaves of presentation, something that it was not lawful for him or those with him to eat, but for the priests only? (Matthew 12:3, 4) Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and the men with him were hungry? How, in the account about Abiathar the chief priest, he entered into the house of God and ate the loaves of presentation, which it is not lawful for anybody to eat except the priests, and he also gave some to the men who were with him? (Mark 2:25, 26) Have you never read what David did when he and the men with him were hungry? How he entered into the house of God and received the loaves of presentation and ate and gave some to the men with him, which it is not lawful for anyone to eat but for the priests only? (Luke 6:3, 4) Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said: For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh? (Matthew 19:4, 5) Before the Flood [they were] eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away. (Matthew 24:38, 39)
2 They were eating, they were drinking, men were marrying, women were being given in marriage until that day when Noah entered into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:27) There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and a great famine came on all the land. (Luke 4:25) When [Elijah] prayed earnestly for it not to rain, it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. (James 5:17) In the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. But on the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:28, 29) [Devil] was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie. (John 8:44) Abraham rejoiced greatly at the prospect of seeing my day, and he saw it and rejoiced. (John 8:56) [Abraham] was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is God. (Hebrews 11:10) [You] said through holy spirit by the mouth of our forefather David, your servant: Why did nations become agitated and peoples meditate on empty things? [Psalm 2] (Acts 4:25, 26)
3 The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he took up residence in Haran, and he said to him: Go out from your land and from your relatives and come into the land that I will show you. Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and took up residence in Haran. (Acts 7:2-4) Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. In fact, he was powerful in his words and deeds. (Acts 7:22) When [Moses] reached the age of 40, it came into his heart to make a visit on his brothers, the sons of Israel. (Acts 7:23) [Moses] thought that his brothers would grasp that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not grasp it. (Acts 7:25) You received the Law as transmitted by angels. (Acts 7:53) [The Law] was transmitted through angels by the hand of a mediator. (Galatians 3:19) All of that was during about 450 years. [It began in the year 1918 B.C.E. with the birth of Isaac and ended about 1467 B.C.E., when the initial conquest of Canaan reached its conclusion] (Acts 13:20) They demanded a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years. (Acts 13:21) The one [Ishmael] born through natural descent began persecuting the one [Isaac] born through spirit. (Galatians 4:29) Adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and became a transgressor. (1 Timothy 2:14)
4 In the way that Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also go on opposing the truth. (2 Timothy 3:8) He again marks off a certain day by saying long afterward in David s psalm, Today ; just as it has been said above, Today if you listen to his voice, do not harden your hearts. [Psalm 95] (Hebrews 4:7) When Moses had spoken every commandment of the Law to all the people, he took the blood of the young bulls and of the goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the book and all the people. (Hebrews 9:19) By faith Enoch was transferred so as not to see death, and he was nowhere to be found because God had transferred him; for before he was transferred he received the witness that he had pleased God well. (Hebrews 11:5) By faith also Sarah received power to conceive offspring, even when she was past the age, since she considered Him faithful who made the promise. (Hebrews 11:11) [Abraham] reasoned that God was able to raise him [Isaac] up even from the dead. (Hebrews 11:19) By faith Jacob, when about to die, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshipped while leaning on the top of his staff. (Hebrews 11:21) [Moses] considered the reproach of the Christ to be riches greater than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked intently toward the payment of the reward. (Hebrews 11:26)
5 By faith [Moses] observed the Passover and the splashing of the blood, so that the destroyer might not harm their firstborn. (Hebrews 11:28) They were stoned, they were tried, they were sawn in two, they were slaughtered by the sword, they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, while they were in need, in tribulation, mistreated. (Hebrews 11:37) They could not bear the command: If even a beast touches the mountain, it must be stoned. (Hebrews 12:20) Do you think that for no reason the scripture says: The spirit that has taken up residence within us keeps enviously longing? (James 4:5) Certainly God did not refrain from punishing the angels who sinned, but threw them into Tartarus, putting them in chains of dense darkness to be reserved for judgment. (2 Peter 2:4) [God] did not refrain from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a flood upon a world of ungodly people. (2 Peter 2:5) [God] rescued righteous Lot, who was greatly distressed by the brazen conduct of the lawless people for day after day that righteous man was tormenting his righteous soul over the lawless deeds that he saw and heard while dwelling among them. (2 Peter 2:7, 8) They have followed the path of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the reward of wrongdoing. (2 Peter 2:15) [They] have rushed into the erroneous course of Balaam for reward. (Jude 11)
6 The angels who did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place, he has reserved with eternal bonds in dense darkness for the judgment of the great day. (Jude 6) Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them are placed before us as a warning example by undergoing the judicial punishment of everlasting fire. (Jude 7) When Michael the archangel had a difference with the Devil and was disputing about Moses body, he did not dare to bring a judgment against him in abusive terms, but said: May Jehovah rebuke you. (Jude 9) The seventh one in line from Adam, Enoch, also prophesied about them when he said: Look! Jehovah came with his holy myriads to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds that they did in an ungodly way, and concerning all the shocking things that ungodly sinners spoke against him. (Jude 14, 15) So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth. (Revelation 12:9) He seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for 1,000 years. (Revelation 20:2)