Gospel Studies & Pericopes

TCAT_The Nativity Story 

Document Excerpt: “Thy Prayer is Heard” (From the Gospel of God)

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And Mary arose in those days to seek Elisabeth, (on Adar 3/Mar. 14, 5 B.C.) and went into the hill country with haste. And in the wilderness of Israel, under the faint lights of heaven, young, innocent, wearied by her journey, the blessed handmaiden fell into a deep sleep without comfort from the night. But comforted by the word of the Lord, she believed that though she made her bed alone, the Lord would be with her.

TCAT_The Baptism Of Jesus_Passover 2014

Document Excerpt: Paragraph 107 of The Gospel of God with conflation details

((Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened: (And Jesus, when he was baptized, and straightway coming up out of the water, went up straightway out of the water:) (and, lo, Jesus saw the heavens were opened unto John, and he saw the Spirit of God, even the Holy Ghost, descending in a bodily shape like a dove, and lighting upon John:) (and there came a voice from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased!) And, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!!))

TCAT_3 Days & 3 Nights _Passover 2014

Document Excerpt:

Of the “three days” and the “three nights” that Christ will be in the grave, his “first death, first day, first night, and second night all happen within a few minutes after the sixth hour: The Spirit of God: Christ: The Light of the World: all ‘die’: the first death: the first day: the first night: and the second night: high noon to 3pm: from the top of the seventh hour to the end of the ninth hour: in a darkness that enshrouds all the earth.

TCAT_Strength_Of_Sin_Passover 2014

Document Excerpt:

“THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW”: Letter to Jennifer

“Free will and the Motions of sin”

“It is by the ‘motions of sin’ that you are so easily beset: for by the law of Moses is the knowledge of sin; and the strength of sin is the law; for sin is the transgression of the law, and the law works condemnation and wrath upon the ‘motions of sin’; (unless one is reprobate and past feeling, having his conscience seared.)”…

TCAT_The Parabolic Nature Of Scripture_Passover 2014

Document Excerpt: A detailed word study on the word parable and it’s use in both old and new testaments. This is only a primer. 

Strong’s Number: #3850 parabole parabole {par-ab-ol-ay’}
from 3846; TDNT – 5:744,773; n f
AV – parable 46, figure 2, comparison 1, proverb 1; 50
1) a placing of one thing by the side of another, juxtaposition, as of ships in battle
2) metaph.
2a) a comparing, comparison of one thing with another, likeness, similitude
2b) an example by which a doctrine or precept is illustrated
2c) a narrative, fictitious but agreeable to the laws and usages of human life, by which either the
duties of men or the things of God, particularly the nature and history of God’s kingdom are figuratively
portrayed
2d) a parable: an earthly story with a heavenly meaning
3) a pithy and instructive saying, involving some likeness or comparison and having preceptive or
admonitory force
3a) an aphorism, a maxim
4) a proverb
5) an act by which one exposes himself or his possessions to danger, a venture, a risk