Michigan Camp Meeting 2018: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Hermeneutics - Why it's Important how we Interpret the Bible

Daniel Scarone

Hermeneutics - Why it’s Important how we Interpret the Bible - Part 1

Hermeneutics - Why it’s Important how we Interpret the Bible - Part 2

Hermeneutics - Why it’s Important how we Interpret the Bible - Part 3

Hermeneutics - Why it’s Important how we Interpret the Bible - Part 4

Hermeneutics - Why it’s Important how we Interpret the Bible - Part 5

Father in Heaven, thank you for your blessings of the day.

Thank you for the moments in which we were enjoying this meeting in the seminars and the blessings of the teachings and learning process.

Be with us as we prepare ourselves to share things with our family, church, and also to build up our minds regarding your Word.

If I put the tape and thing, the microphone and the connection.

Yes, I am fully wired in this moment, so don't disclose anything secret because it's going to be revealed and sealed for cheap.

Okay, we are reconstructing what I've been calling the hermeneutical circle in the process.

Because we are growing in every moment, and there are disciplines that we need to attach in the process of amniotics.

I am beginning to work in a manuscript, by the way.

And let me tell you that there are certain other things that probably in the future I have to include in this because there is a lot of elements and some elements are coming from history, like archaeology and those kind of things that we need to attach in the process because it is important.

And Archaeo-Mneutics is growing because it's taking elements coming from these new research elements appearing in new archaeological things.

Every time that they are digging something and appears something else, it's going to put new information regarding those things.

But so far, so far, as I said before, when we compare the process with other situations in other religions, and yesterday we were finishing probably the presentation comparing the biblical hermeneutics with the case of, for example, the Islam and the Book of Mormon and so on, we do have a strong, strong basis for interpretation based upon history and geography and all those elements are helping us in the process of interpretation.

Because when you say Belem, you go to Belem, still Belem exists.

If you say Nazareth, Nazareth exists, still exists.

And Jericho, and when you are comparing elements to elements, you are going to see that the Bible is shining because there are elements in history, in geography, that still are there.

Yesterday we were talking about, we were starting this in the process of our relationship with the Bible.

And my recommendation is to work with the author.

The relationship of the author with the book is powerful.

Sean and Matthew, New Testament guys, gospel writers, very different 1 of the other.

Different backgrounds, different elements, different cultures involved with them.

And 1 was a publican, and the other was a descendant of fishers, probably in the same line of profession.

And you are going to see that in the sub-product in which the inspiration works with them.

So let me tell you that I respect everybody, and I learned to respect everybody because in the Bible you are going to find out that there is not a PhD that is writing this book or this other or this other.

And there are especially learned people and people, very common people, that are people from the crowd, by the way.

Is he inspired and I have to respect him?

Of course, because the Lord used all of them equally.

And that is the beauty of the Bible, because in a certain sense, that is the charge, too.

I regret sometimes with people that having certain degree beliefs is superior of other without a degree.

I am trying to put, when I do a presentation, I put only my name.

Right at the foot of the cross, the ground is leveled.

Everybody is a candidate for the kingdom of heaven.

So from that point, we need to see us and each other, and we are going to gain a lot of experience in doing that process, because we are co-learning.

Let me tell you that every time that I'm teaching, I am learning too.

So let's go to the process in which we were dealing with.

And I today added something that was not yesterday and is isolated there, but is coming together with the flux of the process.

We need to go to the text and review the context, Because it's important, the text with a context.

Sometimes I like very much textual preaching in the Bible.

Sometimes 1 verse, Sometimes 2, 3, no more than that.

Of course, when you are expanding, it's not a textual sermon.

You know, it's a little bigger because you need more ideas.

But I like very much the textual preaching in the Bible.

And I like very much to know the languages involved, the meaning that is involved, what does it mean.

For example, elements that are in the Bible.

Let's put an example about what we might be able to learn and disclose, especially in the practical sense in the Bible.

And let's go to the beginning of the book of Job.

And let's talk a little – thank you very much, very mucho, gracias.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was who?

Blameless, in my version says, perfect and upright and 1 that feared God and eschewed evil.

By the way, that is very, very important, what he says here.

So when you go to the book, you know there is a lot of element of poetry, almost, very earlier poetry in the book of Job.

But there are some kind of elements in which we need to put attention here.

My version here, King James version, that I am using here in the iPhone is King James version.

I have the Latino version, Latin version here, rectus, with no that kind of person that is not blending.

Rectus, that is the meaning, you know, for that.

Perfect, upright, a 1 that fear God and eschew evil.

And there were born unto him 7 sons and 3 daughters.

His substance was also 7, 000 sheep, 3, 000 camels, 500 yoke oxen, and 500 she-asses, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the men in the East." Let me share with you some elements regarding process of interpretation and how we might be able to apply, for example, for a sermon.

Because here, there are very, very good elements here.

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Hermeneutics - Why it's Important how we Interpret the Bible

Hermeneutics - Why it’s Important how we Interpret the Bible - Part 3

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