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by Gregory HHC, d
Minister of His Holy Church
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Elements
of the World and the Kingdom
“Looking for and hasting unto the
coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” 2
Peter 3:12
Some interpreters of the New
Testament suggest that elements melting is referring to
a future nuclear war. The word element is from the Greek
stoicheion from stoicheo “to proceed ... in order... to direct ones life.”
Like with the word exousia we need to question what the author
meant by looking at its meaning and its use at the time.
The same word element is
also used in Galatians 4:3. It is used in reference to being “in
bondage under the elements of the world.” In Galatians 4:9,
we see, “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather
are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements [stoicheion],
whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?”
The same words are seen in
Colossians 2:20, “Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from
the rudiments [stoicheion] of the
world, why, as though living in the world, are ye
subject to ordinances,”
In
Colossians 2:8 we see the word “traditions” which
is also translated ordinances. “Beware lest any man
spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [stoicheion] of the world, and not after Christ.” The
word spoil means “to carry off booty.” In every case the
word “world” is the Greek word defined “constitution,
order, government” or “state” from the Greek word komizo defined “to care for, take care of... provide
for, or carry away.
God wants us to be free souls
under Him and not spoiled under bondage to states like Egypt, Rome,
or Babylon. He does not want you to swear, or contract, or pray for
daily bread and benefits from those men who exercise authority and bring you back into bondage to the elements of the world but to be only in the world and not of it.
Related Articles:
Elements of the World
Not of this world
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Related Articles and Audio:
Romans 13 part 1
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/audio/rm/Romans131.ram
ROMANS 13 verse 1 the higher liberty
Does God want us to be subject or to be free?
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/romans13.php
Romans 13 and I Peter 2,13-14
Is the Bible consistent about setting men free or does it contradict itself?
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/romanspeter.php
Romans 13, NN Video Series:7-10 4:32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEMYx6affo
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