What did Jesus say about God's Timing?

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Revelation 3:7–13 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

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10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

11 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

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7 “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

8 “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

9 Behold, I make some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

11 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

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Historical source · 1897 · selected excerpts

Philadelphia

a city of Lydia in Asia Minor […] It was the seat of one of the "seven churches" (Rev. 3:7-12).

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39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

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32 “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”

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35 “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe.

37 All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

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56 But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”

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50 “Friend, why are you here?”

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52 “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

53 Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

55 “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

56 But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”

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Temple

This word is generally used in Scripture of the sacred house erected on the summit of Mount Moriah for the worship of God.

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15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

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4 “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

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7 “Let’s go into Judea again.”

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9 “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

11 “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

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14 “Lazarus is dead.

15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

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Historical source · 1897 · selected excerpts

Judea

But under the Romans, in the time of Christ, it denoted the southernmost of the three divisions of Palestine (Matt. 2:1, 5; 3:1; 4:25), although it was also sometimes used for Palestine generally (Acts 28:21).

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John 16:5–15 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

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7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

9 about sin, because they don’t believe in me;

10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

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5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

9 about sin, because they don’t believe in me;

10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

13 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you.

15 All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you.

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Historical source · 1897 · selected excerpts

Counselor

It means properly "one who is summoned to the side of another" to help him in a court of justice by defending him, "one who is summoned to plead a cause."

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Matthew 3:15 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

15 “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

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Luke 22:67–70 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

67 “If I tell you, you won’t believe,

68 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.

69 From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

70 “You say it, because I am.”

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18 “Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”

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20 “It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.

21 For the Son of Man goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

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Mark 4:26–29 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

26 “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

28 For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

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35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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32 “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

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34 “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

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Luke 9:22 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

22 “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

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Historical source · 1897 · selected excerpts

Scribes

In later times, after the Captivity, when the nation lost its independence, the scribes turned their attention to the law, gaining for themselves distinction by their intimate acquaintance with its contents. On them devolved the duty of multiplying copies of the law and of teaching it to others (Ezra 7:6, 10-12; Neh. 8:1, 4, 9, 13).

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Priest

They represented the people before God, and offered the various sacrifices prescribed in the law.

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Revelation 22:7 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

7 “Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

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John 10:11–18 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

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18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

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11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.

13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

16 I have other sheep which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

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Hired hand

A labourer employed on hire for a limited time (Job 7:1; 14:6; Mark 1:20). His wages were paid as soon as his work was over (Lev. 19:13).

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Sheep fold

An enclosure for flocks to rest together (Isa. 13:20).

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12 “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

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16 I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

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Alpha and Omega

Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last.

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Luke 12:42–48 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

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45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,

46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

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42 “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

44 Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,

46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

47 That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

48 but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

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John 13:31–35 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

31 “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.

33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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Luke 6:3–5 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

3 “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

4 how he entered into God’s house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?”

5 “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

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Historical source · 1897 · selected excerpts

Bread

Bread was prepared by kneading in wooden bowls or "kneading troughs" (Gen. 18:6; Ex. 12:34; Jer. 7:18). The dough was mixed with leaven and made into thin cakes, round or oval, and then baked.

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Priest

They represented the people before God, and offered the various sacrifices prescribed in the law.

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This bread consisted of twelve loaves made of the finest flour. […] They were renewed every Sabbath (Lev. 24:5-9), and those that were removed to give place to the new ones were to be eaten by the priests only in the holy place (see 1 Sam. 21:3-6; comp. Matt. 12:3, 4).

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Sabbath

(Heb. verb shabbath, meaning "to rest from labour"), the day of rest.

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Parallel to Luke 6:5; Mark 2:28

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8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

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3 “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:

4 how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?

6 But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

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Historical source · 1897 · selected excerpts

Bread

Bread was prepared by kneading in wooden bowls or "kneading troughs" (Gen. 18:6; Ex. 12:34; Jer. 7:18). The dough was mixed with leaven and made into thin cakes, round or oval, and then baked.

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Priest

They represented the people before God, and offered the various sacrifices prescribed in the law.

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Show bread

This bread consisted of twelve loaves made of the finest flour. […] They were renewed every Sabbath (Lev. 24:5-9), and those that were removed to give place to the new ones were to be eaten by the priests only in the holy place (see 1 Sam. 21:3-6; comp. Matt. 12:3, 4).

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Sabbath

(Heb. verb shabbath, meaning "to rest from labour"), the day of rest.

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Temple

This word is generally used in Scripture of the sacred house erected on the summit of Mount Moriah for the worship of God.

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Same saying, another account

Parallel to Luke 6:5; Matthew 12:8

25 “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?

26 How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?”

27 “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

28 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

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Historical source · 1897 · selected excerpts

Bread

Bread was prepared by kneading in wooden bowls or "kneading troughs" (Gen. 18:6; Ex. 12:34; Jer. 7:18). The dough was mixed with leaven and made into thin cakes, round or oval, and then baked.

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Priest

They represented the people before God, and offered the various sacrifices prescribed in the law.

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Show bread

This bread consisted of twelve loaves made of the finest flour. […] They were renewed every Sabbath (Lev. 24:5-9), and those that were removed to give place to the new ones were to be eaten by the priests only in the holy place (see 1 Sam. 21:3-6; comp. Matt. 12:3, 4).

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Sabbath

(Heb. verb shabbath, meaning "to rest from labour"), the day of rest.

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John 16:1–4 · WEBTopic: God's Timing

1 “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.

4 But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

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Synagogue

The synagogue was also sometimes used as a court of judicature, in which the rulers presided (Matt. 10:17; Mark 5:22; Luke 12:11; 21:12; Acts 13:15; 22:19); also as public schools.

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21 “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

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23 “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.

24 The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

25 “You said it.”

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56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

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49 “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.

50 But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

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54 “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

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58 “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

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