Kingdom Studies:
The Life Promised and Manifested
(Part 2): Those Who Will Awake
William Ramey
The introduction to
the study underscored that when Christ
appears and inaugurates His Kingdom,
those who are His will be bodily
resurrected imperishable in splendor and
power, a transformation that transpires
in an indivisible moment of time.
The same imperishable body will
subsequently be clothed with immortality
at the consummation of His reign.
The Hebrew prophets
wrote about the resurrection from the
dead of God's people. Although
they never prophesized about the
properties of the resurrected body,
which were to be revealed later as part
of a "mystery" to apostle Paul, a very
special kind of life was promised in the
prophecy given to Daniel.
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Kingdom Studies:
The Life Promised and Manifested
(Part 1): Introduction
William Ramey
The Apostle Paul
authoritatively states that during the
Kingdom Period inaugurated at Jesus
Christ's appearing, He raises to life
those who are His with an imperishable,
spiritual body and subsequently clothes
them with immortality. The nature
of the resurrected spiritual body is
imperishable and the duration of
immortality is without qualification.
"Imperishability" and "immortality" are
not synonymous terms, for each specifies
a differing profound and permanent
effect on the the resurrected body.
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NTGreek In Diagram:
The General Epistles
William Ramey
The General Epistles (also called
Catholic Epistles) are in the form of letters. They
are termed "general" because for the most part they
are addressed to a broad readership rather than to
specific assemblies as is the case with the Pauline
Epistles. However, 2 John and 3 John are commonly
included in this group despite their addresses
respectively to the "elect lady" and to "Gaius".
The Revelation is usually excluded from The General
Epistles because of its distinctive writing style,
but it is actually a letter that was addressed to
seven congregations in Asia Minor.
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NTGreek In Diagram:
The Pauline Epistles
William Ramey
The Pauline
Epistles are the largest extant
collection of letters in the Greek New
Testament. Of the twenty-seven
documents included in the New Testament,
Paul wrote thirteen of them.
However by word count, Paul is the second
most prolific contributor to the New
Testament. Luke's two documents (The
Gospel of Luke and The Acts of the
Apostles) amount to nearly a third of
the New Testament in volume.
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NTGreek In Diagram:
The Epistle to the
Hebrews
William Ramey
The Greek diagrams for
The Epistle to the Hebrews (2008
• First Edition)
are now available. The Epistle to the
Hebrews is the most
Christological epistle in the New Testament concerning His Person,
Work and coming Messianic Kingdom. The author explicitly
quotes the Old Testament thirty-five times, and fourteen of these
quotations are drawn from the Psalms. Because of all the
quotations, the vocabulary and style are more vigorous than that of
any other New Testament epistle.
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NTGreek In Diagram:
The Epistle of James
William Ramey
The
Greek diagrams for The
Epistle of James
(2008 • First Edition)
are now available.
The Epistle of
James is known as one of the General Epistles of the New
Testament. The designation is given to these epistles
because they were written as circular letters for reading by
a number of assemblies. This is in contrast to most of
Paul's epistles, which were addressed to specific assemblies
or to individuals.
The Epistle of James
has been regarded by some as second-tier importance among
the New Testament writings. Perhaps Martin Luther's
overrated disparaging remarks were the case of this, turning
scholarship aside and directing it to the more famous
sister-letters in the Pauline corpus. Much has been
made of "a right strawy epistle".
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NTGreek In Structure: The Structure of
Paul's Letters
Robert Bailey
Mr. Robert Bailey has
recently updated The Structure of Paul's Letters.
In an era of no punctuation, not even spaces between
words, sentences, and paragraphs, and when all
letters were capital letters, Paul made careful use
of internal structures of parallelism. These
structures are like Hebrew poetry, which is not
based on meter or rhyme, but on parallelism of
clauses, a symmetry of form and sense. They
emphasize, organize, and clarify his thoughts.
They can help a careful reader to see his outline
and the units of thought that go together to make a
whole structure of thought. They also made it
difficult for anyone to alter his letters without
making that evident to a careful reader.
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NTGreek In
Diagram: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians
William Ramey
The
Second Epistle to the Corinthians
(2008 • Third Edition)
is now available. In some ways this epistle is
the most Pauline of all of Paul's epistles.
This epistle has long been recognized as providing
valuable motivation for the Christian in daily life
and for the church in its service. At the same
time, its difficulty for scholars is well known.
This is also true for those who diagram it.
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