What do you think it means? I'm not trying to be a smart alec, I just want to know. I've seen almost all of your videos and I think you make a lot more sense than the rest of churchianty. But scriptures like that are really difficult to harmonize.
@zxcvbnm103 I didn't think you were being a smart alec, I was just trying to lead you to find the answer yourself. We've sort of over spiritualized the word blessed in these scriptures; so that we read 'blessed" to mean something like 'holy' or 'saintly' or 'special' or 'pleasing to God,' but blessed doesn't mean that. The Theological Wordbook of The Old Testament Vol. 1 page 132 says this: To bless in the OT means to " …endue with power for success, prosperity, fecundity, logeivity etc.…"
@zxcvbnm103 So when Jesus says Blessed are the poor… what he means is that something good happens to them, they receiving a blessing, they are blessed. Why? In this particular context what Jesus is saying is that they , the poor, get blessed because they've come to listen to him. The poor came to listen to Jesus because they had no other hope and so he says, you're the ones who are going to get the blessing. In contrast the rich didn't come because they didn't need anything.
I looked up the word establish on the dictionary.Establish can mean to be valid or true.So he made them rich so he can prove his covenant with the people of Abraham aka those with faith in CHrist.
thanks. i refused to believe that god wanted us to be poor. it s good to know you.
mysocksss 5 months ago
What is your view about when Jesus said Luke 6:20 "Blessed are the poor for yours is the kingdom of heaven??
zxcvbnm103 8 months ago
@zxcvbnm103 Hey…well what do you think the word "blessed" means?
goyomarquez 8 months ago
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What do you think it means? I'm not trying to be a smart alec, I just want to know. I've seen almost all of your videos and I think you make a lot more sense than the rest of churchianty. But scriptures like that are really difficult to harmonize.
zxcvbnm103 8 months ago
@zxcvbnm103 I didn't think you were being a smart alec, I was just trying to lead you to find the answer yourself. We've sort of over spiritualized the word blessed in these scriptures; so that we read 'blessed" to mean something like 'holy' or 'saintly' or 'special' or 'pleasing to God,' but blessed doesn't mean that. The Theological Wordbook of The Old Testament Vol. 1 page 132 says this: To bless in the OT means to " …endue with power for success, prosperity, fecundity, logeivity etc.…"
MarquezGreg 8 months ago
@zxcvbnm103 So when Jesus says Blessed are the poor… what he means is that something good happens to them, they receiving a blessing, they are blessed. Why? In this particular context what Jesus is saying is that they , the poor, get blessed because they've come to listen to him. The poor came to listen to Jesus because they had no other hope and so he says, you're the ones who are going to get the blessing. In contrast the rich didn't come because they didn't need anything.
MarquezGreg 8 months ago
Thank you for this message.
ifeoye 1 year ago
I looked up the word establish on the dictionary.Establish can mean to be valid or true.So he made them rich so he can prove his covenant with the people of Abraham aka those with faith in CHrist.
6gording6 3 years ago
thanx for making this video lots of explanations god bless.
GodsDrunkenMasterCD 3 years ago