It is so simple that it is hard to believe. In fact, we usually can’t believe it unless we attach qualifications to it. But Yahweh doesn’t put in qualifiers, he keeps it simple. What does Yahweh keep simple? Being judged righteous. Faith is the easiest thing that Yahweh could have used for his people to be counted righteous, but we seem to do our best to make people stress and strain over it. As we studied from “out of faith into faith”, or from out of credence into fidelity, the righteous live by faith. One way to look at faith is to understand that faith is credence and credence is “acceptance”. Faith is also fidelity, and fidelity is “loyalty”. The righteous live by their convictions or by their acceptance and loyalty; faith. Faith is trust. It does not matter what all the chicken littles say. It does not matter what the big bad wolf threatens. It does not matter what the plans of Drakōn and Satanas are for the future. What matters is something as simple as faith, trust, conviction. Faith makes us righteous and righteousness saves us from out of death. The righteous, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were mentioned by Yahweh as an example for being rescued. Yahweh tells Ezekiel that if those men were living during the time leading up to the third wave of captivity into Babylon that they would be rescued because of their own righteousness. We are not burdened with the sins of others, we are only burdened with our own faith. Paul explains that the law increased sin, but Yahweh’s favor superabounds. Paul also says that the world is scheduled for a day of judgment in righteousness, which will be judged by Jesus Christ.
Abram is our first example of faith. All Abram had to do was to trust that what Yahweh said was true, and then he was righteous. In the context, Abram is speaking with Yahweh regarding an heir, and Yahweh tells him that one would come forth from Abram. Yahweh leads Abram outside to look at the stars and tells him that that will be his seed, innumerable.
Genesis 15:6 G2532 And G4100 Abram trusted G* G3588 G2316 in God, G2532 and G3049 it was imputed G1473 to him G1519 for G1343 righteousness.
1343 LSJ Gloss:δικαιοσύνη righteousness, justice
Dodson:δικαιοσύνη justice, justness, righteousness (usually if not always in a Jewish atmosphere), justice, justness, righteousness, righteousness of which God is the source or author, but practically: a divine righteousness.
TBESG:δικαιοσύνη righteousness
G:N-F
δικαιοσύνη, -ης, ἡ
Thayer:
1) in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God
1a) the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God
1b) integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking feeling, and acting
2) in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due
δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosunē dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay From G1342; equity (of character or act); specifically (Christian) justification KJV Usage: righteousness.
Because Abram had pisteuō, faith, trust, belief, in the Elohim, the Elohim counted or esteemed Abram dikaiosunē righteous or just. Faith equals righteousness. If one has faith, that one is counted righteous. This is simple. Abram did not have scrolls of the law, Moses wasn’t even born. Abram had the knowledge that he gained from Noah and Shem, and he had knowledge of Enoch’s writings as Noah and Shem possessed them. That was it. Yet he believed the Elohim Master Yahweh. Then Yahweh reveals to Abram that he, Yahweh, is the “I Am”, the Elohim. Yahweh also mentions that Abrams’ seed will be sojourners and enslaved in another land for four hundred years, but that the fourth generation will return to this land. As we see, at this time Yahweh considers a generation to be one hundred years. All Abram did was to believe what Yahweh said. Then, being righteous, he was told of the future. Let’s fast forward to Solomon.
Proverbs 10:2 G3756 [2shall not G5623 3benefit G2344 1Treasures] G459 the lawless; G1343 but righteousness G1161 G4506 shall rescue G1537 from out of G2288 death.
There is a comparison between the lawless and the righteous. Righteousness rescues from out of death. What makes one righteous? Faith in the Elohim. Righteousness saves us from eternal death. Notice what Ezekiel tells us.
Jezekiel 14:12 (EC Marsh) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 13 Son of man, if a land shall sin against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast. 14 And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, and Daniel, and Job, they alone should be delivered by their righteousness, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel was among the second wave of captives from Judah. He sees what caused Yahweh to disperse the nation into Babylon. He is giving prophecies for the people to understand the gravity of the situation. Then Yahweh says that if a land sins against Yahweh he will stretch his hand against them. Pay close attention to what Yahweh says. Not every famine is from Yahweh. But if Yahweh was sending a famine then Noah, Daniel, and Job would be delivered from the famine. Why? Because of their own righteousness. How did they become righteous? They believed what Yahweh said.
Jezekiel 14:15 If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it be ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts: 16 and if these three men should be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed. 17 Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast: 18 though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, they shall not deliver sons or daughters, but they only shall be saved themselves. 19 Or if again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast: 20 and should Noe, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.
If Yahweh brings evil beasts to take vengeance on Judah, only Noah, Daniel, and Job would be saved, not their sons or daughters, not their wives or their parents. The land would be destroyed, but the righteous Noah, Daniel, and Job would be saved. If Yahweh sends his wrath to destroy everything, then the righteousness of Noah, Daniel, and Job will save their souls. Yahweh explains righteousness.
Jezekiel 18:4 For all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.
5 But the man who shall be just, who executes judgment and righteousness,…9 and has walked in my commandments and kept mine ordinances, to do them; he is righteous, he shall surely live, saith the Lord.
All souls are Yahweh’s, yet that does not mean that all souls go to heaven. Clearly the soul that sins will die. The person who is just or righteous does what is right and just in judgment. That person walks in the commands of Yahweh and does Yahweh’s ordinances and then lives. Yahweh continues.
Jezekiel 18:19 But ye will say, Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father? Because the son has wrought judgment and mercy, has kept all my statues, and done them, he shall surely live. 20 But the soul that sins shall die: and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.
The children are not responsible for the sins of their own Father if the children are righteous. Likewise, the parents are not responsible for the sins of their children. Whoever is righteous is righteous, whoever sins is responsible for his own sin. Think of the time period. The priests were defiling the temple with male and female prostitution, burning incense to idols, worshipping the constellations and stars, passing their children through the fires of Moloch, and the like. The priests were responsible for those behaviors. If their children never entered the priesthood and had no knowledge to what is going on then they were not responsible for the sins of their fathers, the idolatrous priests. Those children would go into captivity if they were righteous, just as the rest of the people who were not slain who were marked because they mourned for the temple. Yes that is correct. The people who mourned and were righteous were marked by angels and then went into captivity. In seventy years their heirs would repopulate Judah again.
Jezekiel 18:21 And if the transgressor turn away from all his iniquities which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do justice and mercy, he shall surely live, and shall by no means die. 22 None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembers: in his righteousness which he has done he shall live. 23 Shall I at all desire death of the sinner, saith the Lord, as I desire that he should turn from his evil way, and live?
Yahweh would rather people turn away from their sin than die in their sin. If one dies in his/her sin that one is separated from Yahweh. Yahweh says that there is hope that the sinner will repent and turn away from sin. Yahweh extended this provision of repentance so that people can become righteous, walking in His commands and keeping His ordinances. But what if the righteous man turns away from Yahweh?
Jezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die.
This is all quite simple. If you walk with Yahweh, keep walking with him up to death. How many people turn away from Yahweh? Enough so that he points out that if one wishes to chase after sin, then whatever righteousness that one had is not remembered. We cannot count on what we did when we were seven years old to make us righteous. The point is, keep on being righteous by continuing to have faith in Yahweh and in what Yahweh says. Go from accepting Yahweh and his word, to loyalty in Yahweh and his word, and live in that loyalty.
Jezekiel 18:25 Yet ye have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? Is your way straight? 26 When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall even die in it. 27 And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgment and justice, he has kept his soul, 28 and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.
We can see that the people of Judah thought that all of Yahweh’s ways were mixed up. Who would have caused that confusion? Later during the time of Jesus the Pharisees made such a mess of the laws and commands that in order to fulfill their version of the law they actually stole the homes of widowed women, leaving them homeless. Yahweh’s ways are straight. Yahweh is keeping it simple here. We will live if we are righteous, we will die if we are not. We will be rescued due to our righteousness which comes by our faith or we will perish due to our sin.
Paul gives us a comparison along these same lines but builds on the idea by explaining that through faith in Jesus Christ we receive righteousness as a gift.
Romans 5:17 G1487 For if G1063 G3588 in the G3588 [2of the G1520 3one G3900 1transgression] G3588 G2288 death G936 reigned G1223 through G3588 the G1520 one, G4183 how much G3123 more G3588 the ones G3588 [2the G4050 3abundance G3588 G5484 4of favor G2532 5and G3588 6the G1431 7gift G3588 G1343 8of righteousness G2983 1receiving] G1722 [2in G2222 3life G936 1shall reign] G1223 through G3588 the G1520 one man G* Jesus G5547 Christ.
18 G686 It is so G3767 then G5613 as G1223 through G1520 one G3900 transgression G1519 it was unto G3956 all G444 men G1519 for G2631 condemnation; G3779 so G2532 also G1223 through G1520 one G1345 right action G1519 it was unto G3956 all G444 men G1519 for G1347 justification G2222 of life.
19 G5618 For as G1063 G1223 by G3588 the G3876 disobedience G3588 of the G1520 one G444 man G268 [3 as sinners G2525 2were established G3588 G4183 1many]; G3779 so G2532 also G1223 by G3588 the G5218 obedience G3588 of the G1520 one man G1342 [3 as righteous G2525 2shall be established G3588 G4183 1many].
1342 LSJ Gloss:δίκαιος observant of custom and social rule, well-ordered, civilised
Dodson:δίκαιος just, righteous, impartial just; especially, just in the eyes of God; righteous; the elect (a Jewish idea).
TBESG:δίκαιος just
G:A
δίκαιος, -α, -ον
Thayer:
1) righteous, observing divine laws
1a) in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
1a1) of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined
1a2) innocent, faultless, guiltless
1a3) used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life
1a3a) only Christ truly
1a4) approved of or acceptable of God
1b) in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them
δίκαιος
dikaios dik'-ah-yos From G1349; equitable (in character or act); by implication innocent, holy (absolutely or relatively) KJV Usage: just, meet, right (-eous).
Through the adam we all became sinners because the adam brought sin into the world through his disobedience. The adam was to be the ruler of the earth or the prince of the earth, but Satanas now has that position. Yet through Jesus Christ who was sinless, many people can now be made righteous. Paul tells us that the law makes more sin.
Romans 5:20 G3551 But law G1161 G3922 entered privately, G2443 that G4121 [2should be superabundant G3588 G3900 1transgression]. G3739 But where G1161 G4121 [2was superabundant G3588 G266 1sin], G5248 [2superabounded G3588 G5484 1favor];
The law came in alongside in order that transgressions would increase. Where sin increased favor abounded exceedingly. What favor? Favor for what? Forgiveness and redemption. The law increased transgressions. As soon as we say ‘do not do this’, people do it. The law exposed sin. By way of the law we could clearly see how many people revered Yahweh and how many people did not. However Yahweh had a remedy for sin which is favor. Favor is spiritual, it is divine influence or merciful kindness. Yahweh’s gracious and merciful kindness superabounded because of the abundance of sin.
Romans 5:21 G2443 that G5618 as G936 [2reigned G3588 G266 1sin] G1722 in G3588 G2288 death, G3779 so G2532 also G3588 the G5484 favor G936 should reign G1223 through G1343 righteousness G1519 to G2222 life G166 eternal G1223 through G* Jesus G5547 Christ G3588 G2962 our Lord. G1473
Sin ruled in death, yet favor ruled by means of righteousness into eternal life by means of Jesus Christ our Yahweh. Favor rules by way of righteousness. Righteousness comes by faith. The natural progressive order is faith in Jesus Christ our Lord which makes one righteous, which means favor rules over sin, giving us eternal life. While the law exposed sin, and sin then abounded, there were many people who did not wallow in sin. However there were more people who did sin than lived by the law.
Review the story of Oolla and Ooliba, in Ezekiel chapter 23, it is the story of Israel, both the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom.
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2019/01/sporting-with-devil-not-victims-but.html
Faith is so simple. It is belief in understanding expectations. Whatever we expect or hope for, faith is understanding those things which haven’t come to pass yet. We hope for things that we currently don’t see such as paradise, heaven, eternal life.
Hebrews 11:1 G1510.2.3 [3is G1161 1And G4102 2belief G1679 5of hoping G5287 4 the reality] G4229 of things, G1650 the proof G3756 not G991 being seen.
5287 LSJ Gloss:ὑπόστασις that which settles at the bottom, sediment
Dodson:ὑπόστασις assurance, substance, reality (lit: an underlying), (a) confidence, assurance, (b) a giving substance (or reality) to, or a guaranteeing, (c) substance, reality.
Thayer:
1) a setting or placing under
1a) thing put under, substructure, foundation
2) that which has foundation, is firm
2a) that which has actual existence
2a1) a substance, real being
2b) the substantial quality, nature, of a person or thing
2c) the steadfastness of mind, firmness, courage, resolution
2c1) confidence, firm trust, assurance
ὑπόστασις
hupostasis hoop-os'-tas-is From a compound of G5259 and G2476; a setting under (support), that is, (figuratively) concretely essence, or abstractly assurance (objectively or subjectively) KJV Usage: confidence, confident, person, substance.
5259
ὑπό
hupo hoop-o' A primary preposition; under, that is, (with the genitive) of place (beneath), or with verbs (the agency or means, through); (with the accusative) of place (whither [underneath ] or where [below ]) or time (when [at ]) KJV Usage: among, by, from, in, of, under, with. In compounds it retains the same genitive applications, especially of inferior position or condition, and specifically covertly or moderately .
2476
ἵστημι
histēmi his'-tay-mee A prolonged form of a primary word στάω staō (of the same meaning, and used for it in certain tenses); to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively) KJV Usage: abide, appoint, bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set (up), stanch, stand (by, forth, still, up).
“But persuasion is understanding expectation, deeds proof not seen.”
Faith or pistis is not a “substance” or an “assurance”. Those things are not solid. How many times have we been assured that things will be fine when they are not? Substance sounds like something mysterious, something we don’t know how to attain. This leaves us with a problem in how to attain faith. Is it like a smiling nurse who doesn’t want to give us the bad news? Or is it a thing that we have to search for but we may not know if we have found it? The unusual translation has caused us problems. It is hupostasis, “under standing”. It is hupo meaning “under”, and histēmi meaning “to stand”. Understanding is “comprehension, grasping, mastery, or perception”. Therefore faith is understanding.
To break down these words, persuasion (noun) is pistis, meaning “faith or moral conviction”. An example of faith is that we all believe air is safe to breathe, and that the ground is firm to stand on. It is something that is concrete in our perception. We were born with this reality and we don’t question it. It is something that we are persuaded in. We don’t wear weighted space suits and breathe oxygen from a tank all day long. Understanding (noun) is hupostasis meaning “perceiving reality”, it is the foundation that one stands on. We comprehend that air is safe to breathe and that the ground is safe to walk on. We believe it, we grasp it. We are not afraid to get out of bed and put our feet on the ground. We are not afraid to inhale. We don’t spend undue time thinking about it, we simply do it. Expectation (verb) elpizō means “to hope for, look for, or expecting”. We expect that when we breathe, the oxygen will be safe for us. We expect that when we stand up, the earth will not cave in underneath us. We expect that the sun will rise whether we see it or not. We expect that storms will come whether we are in them or we watch them from far off. Expectation is a supposition or a calculation that something will happen. We know it will happen, but we do not always know when.
Persuasion is a thing, understanding is a thing, and expectation is an action.
We could say that our moral conviction is the understanding of what we expect will happen, the proof of deeds not yet seen. The two verbs in both statements are “expecting” and “seen”. We are taking action in expectation of what is not seen. Faith is understanding expectation. We are expecting to see the proof of deeds not yet seen. Our moral conviction is a perceived reality for us. We have calculated that the proofs of the workings of Yahweh in the people who have come before us are indeed truth. We calculate that if Yahweh can work in those people and they trusted Him, then Yahweh can work in us and we can trust Him.
This is what we are to be outspoken about. This is what we need cheerful endurance for. We are well pleasing when we don’t hold back, but instead tell others about Jesus the Messiah, our complete sacrifice. Our persuasion is that Jesus died and rose up on the third day. Our understanding is that Jesus died and rose up on the third day. Our expectation is that just as Jesus rose up, Jesus will call for us from the clouds. The harpazo hasn’t happened yet, we haven’t seen it. But the reality is that Jesus was crucified and that people saw Him after he died. Just as Jesus was seen by thousands of people, Jesus will call from the clouds, and later He will return back to earth.
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/12/understanding-expectation-our.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-he-find-faith-out-of-persuasion.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2019/05/no-wrath-without-faith-becoming-well.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2013/02/sanctified-and-not-judged-yet-nations.html
We see that persuasion is understanding expectation, deeds proof not seen. Let’s take this a step further. Fidelity is understanding expectation. Remember that we studied from credence to fidelity, Romans 1:17. “Righteousness for Elohim uncovered in us, from out of persuasion into persuasion, just as written ‘but the just live from out of persuasion’”. We grow from credence to fidelity, or acceptance to loyalty. The righteous live from out of fidelity. Fidelity is understanding expectation or understanding what we hope for, and what we hope for is the deeds that prove the unseen. We are uncovered as righteous from out of acceptance into loyalty, and the righteous live from out of loyalty. Loyalty to Jesus Christ is understanding our expectation of His actions that prove what is unseen. We are righteous because we accept that Jesus is Lord. We are loyal to Jesus as our Lord. We understand what to expect from Jesus our Lord. We await Jesus’ actions which will be proof that we believed, trusted, and were persuaded in Him.
Paul, Timothy, and Silas, were in Berea when the Jews from Thessalonica came to Berea to stir up the people against Paul. The brethren quickly sent Paul to Athens by sea, while Timothy and Silas were left in Berea. This was a fast move by the brethren as they didn’t have time to collect Timothy and Silas. As Paul waited for Timothy and Silas in Athens he debated in the synagogue and wandered around the city. The Epicureans (disciples of Epicurus, an Athenian philosopher) and Stoicks (disciples of Zeno of Citium of Athens, a Hellenistic philosopher) took Paul to the Areopagus or Mars Hill where Paul gave a speech which we might wish to repeat to the unsaved. There was a statue on Mars Hill to the Unknown God. Paul is identifying the Unknown God to them. Remember that Paul was a Hellenist Jew and he knew how to debate and speak to philosophers.
Acts 17:24 G3588 The G2316 God, G3588 the one G4160 making G3588 the G2889 world G2532 and G3956 all G3588 the things G1722 in G1473 it, G3778 this one G3772 [3of heaven G2532 4and G1093 5earth G2962 2Lord G5224 1being], G3756 does not G1722 [2in G5499 3handmade G3485 4temples G2730 1dwell],
25 G3761 nor G5259 by G5495 the hands G444 of men G2323 attending G4326 is there any feeling any want, G5100 G1473 himself G1325 giving G3956 to all G2222 life G2532 and G4157 breath, G2532 and G3588 G3956 all things;
Paul establishes the Unknown God as the Elohim who created the world. Paul says the that Elohim doesn’t need anything from us but instead gave life and breath to all things.
Acts 17:26 G4160 and he made G5037 G1537 of G1520 one G129 blood G3956 every G1484 nation G444 of men, G2730 to dwell G1909 upon G3956 all G3588 the G4383 face G3588 of the G1093 earth, G3724 having confirmed G4367 beforehand G2540 times G2532 and G3588 the G3734 boundaries G3588 of their dwelling -- G2733 27 G2212 to seek G3588 the G2962 Lord…
Paul explains that we are all of one blood. As Paul told the Galatians, there are no Jews or Greeks, bond or free, male or female, but all are one in Christ Jesus. Now Paul says that all who dwell on the earth are separated and assigned for a proper time and the set territory of their dwelling to seek Yahweh. Remember that after the flood Yahweh told Noah’s descendants to spread out over the earth, but they were afraid that in smaller tribes they would be overcome by other related tribes. It was Yahweh’s plan for manfaced to inhabit all the earth.
Acts 17:27 G2212 to seek G3588 the G2962 Lord, G1487 if G686 then perhaps G1065 G5584 they might grope after G1473 him, G2532 and G2147 might find him, G2544 though indeed G3756 [2not G3112 3far G575 4from G1520 6one G1538 5each G1473 7of us G5224 1being].
All people are made from out of one blood, all ethnos, all ethnic groups of manfaced. It is sad how we let the schemes of Satanas and Drakōn divide us by race, color, gender, and beliefs. All manfaced are from out of one blood, all the nations of earth, and are separated and assigned for a proper time, and the set territory of the nations’ dwelling, in order to seek and in order to find Yahweh. Paul then says that at least they might feel Him and find Him although he is not far from each one of us. This is great news. No matter where we live, no matter what language we speak, no matter what color we are, we are able to feel Yahweh and find him. And no matter where we are, or who we are, he is not distant from any of us. There are many people who do not know how close Yahweh is to us. There are many people who feel alone and abandoned. Yet even though we are of one blood we have been divided into different nations to give us a chance to find Yahweh. If we were under one world wide leader, we could easily be turned away from Yahweh, just as Nimrod did, and just as the anti-christ will do in the future. We are all of one blood, the adam’s blood, but manfaced is separated, but not to our detriment. Yet the satan uses our ethnos to divide us, turning us against one another.
Acts 17:28 G1722 [2in G1473 3him G1063 1For] G2198 we live, G2532 and G2795 move, G2532 and G1510.2.4 are; G5613 as G2532 also G5100 some G3588 of the G2596 [2among you G1473 G4163 1poets] G2046 have said, G3588 For of him G1063 G2532 [2also G1085 3a family G1510.2.4 1we are].
Paul is quoting some Athenian poets or performers in this phrase, which tells us that he did his homework on their culture. Fascinating. Paul did not condemn their culture. He found something in their culture to share with them. “For in Him we live and move and we are, for we are namely genos, family”. The poets and performers of Athens believed they were all of one genos, or genetic kin. Paul expounded on this by explaining that not only were the Athenians genetically related but all the nations are genetically related. Paul continues to expound on their own cultural understanding.
Acts 17:29 G1085 [2a family G3767 3then G5224 1Being] G3588 G2316 of God, G3756 ought we G3784 G3543 to think G5557 gold, G2228 or G696 silver, G2228 or G3037 stone, G5480 an imprint G5078 of a craft, G2532 and G1761 thinking G444 of man G3588 [3the G2304 4divine G1510.1 1to be G3664 2like]?
Paul says that possessing therefore the genos of the Elohim, owe no regard to gold, or silver, or stones, engraved art, and inward thoughts and reflections of manfaced, to be similar to divinity. In other words, throw away all the statues, idols, jewelry, and artwork, and stop thinking so much; none of those things are divine. Paul tells the Athenians that the Elohim overlooked this nonsense and wants all men to repent for our benefit.
Acts 17:30 G3588 [3the G3303 1Indeed G3767 2then] G5550 times G3588 G52 of ignorance G5237 [2having overlooked G3588 G2316 1God], G3569 at present G3853 exhorts G3588 G444 all men G3956 G3837 everywhere G3340 to repent;
31 G1360 because G2476 he set G2250 a day G1722 in G3739 which G3195 he is about G2919 to judge G3588 the G3611 world G1722 in G1343 righteousness, G1722 by G435 a man G3739 in whom G3724 he confirmed, G4102 [2belief G3930 1having furnished] G3956 to all, G450 having raised G1473 him G1537 from G3498 the dead.
Paul says, indeed therefore the times of ignorance or willful blindness the Elohim overlooked, yet now commands every manfaced everywhere to repent and change their mind. All manfaced in all nations repent now because the Elohim established a day in which he intends to judge the occupied world in righteousness, in a human man which he declared, provided pistis, faith to all, raised Him up from out of the dead. Let’s take this apart. First the Elohim is no longer overlooking idolatry. These Athenians were smart, but today we are smarter. There is a day when the inhabitants of the world will be judged in righteousness. That day is the harpazō. The day that the world is judged as to whether people are righteous is an important day. The people who are righteous are the ones who believe on Jesus Christ as their Yahweh and who believe he rose up on the third day. The day manfaced is judged by a human man is the day of redemption. The rest of the world who are not righteous, who do not believe that Jesus is Yahweh, are left for judgment, which is seven years of tribulation, known as the wrath of the Lamb and the wrath of the Father.
We should understand that the first judgment on the world is when the world is judged in righteousness by a human man who people have faith in. The word anthrōpos translates as “manfaced”, anēr translates as a “male human being”. There is a reason that Paul used these two different words. When speaking of manfaced it is a differentiation between the people of the genos of the adam, and other sons of God with different genos. Angels have a different genos from the heirs of the adam and other sons of God; as do cherubim, seraphim, and ophanim. Each type is a different genos with the exception of the heirs of the Nephilim, which were a mixed genos, human and angel genetics. Jesus Christ was a human male, and Paul uses anēr to explain that he was a male. Remember, the Greeks had a list of gods and demi-gods that they worshipped (which technically were the Nephilim and their heirs). Paul expresses that they should believe Jesus was human, in a human body. He was not manfaced but he was male.
This human male comes to judge the righteous. How do we become righteous? We believe Jesus is the Messiah and that he rose up on the third day. Faith makes us righteous. We grow from accepting Jesus as Messiah to having loyalty to Jesus as our Messiah. From out of credence into fidelity, the righteous live by faith. This is how we can be judged righteous on the day that Jesus calls his saints from the clouds. This is very simple. There is no work to do, just believe. There is no goal to achieve, just believe. Grow faith from accepting Jesus as Yahweh to having loyalty to Jesus as Yahweh, then being righteous, live by conviction. The simplicity of faith erases the law and the need for works to achieve righteousness. By faith we are saved. Simple.
