For
most Christians, one of the most important words in their religious vocabulary
is “saved.” Their mission is to save
as many people as possible. Why? They have been taught that only those who are “saved” will spend eternity in Heaven
with God. That was not the focus of Yeshua’s message. His goal was to bring as
many people as possible into the Kingdom
of Heaven -- while they are alive.
He taught that it will only be those that live in the Kingdom of Heaven before death that will ultimately enter eternal
life later. We will be learning much more about that in this series of discussions
that we call “Yeshua’s Kingdom of Heaven Handbook.”
We will reconstructing the teachings of Yeshua so we can understand them more
accurately by incorporating new information that we discover as we learn about
his language, culture and the time period in which he taught his followers. Read
the complete discussion at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/08/how-to-enter-kingdom-of-heaven.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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