What's the definition of prophecy?
What is the Book of Life?
This is a book of the living with the names of people that have been saved by accepting Christ's gift of salvation. See Psalm 69:28
A book kept by God with the list of names of people who will escape God's wrath (Psalm 69:28; Rev. 21:27). Those who names are not in the book of Life are cast into hell (Rev. 20:15).
God illuminates scripture to his children.
Wisdom: Proverbs 1:7 says:
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise
wisdom and instruction.
We need knowledge but how can we understand the fear of the Lord? Take a look at Proverbs chapter 2.
The very first verse talks about "His son" which means "His children" or those that have been saved.
So first you need to become a child of God.
Then take a look at verse 5. If you do the things mentioned in Proverbs 2: 1-5 then you will understand
the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
9Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
7I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
8But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
9Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Greek
This week's Greek phrase is located in:
1 Thessalonians chapter 4
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The phrase "caught up" in the KJV is translated from the G726 Greek word: harpazō which means:
1) to seize, carry off by force
2) to seize on, claim for one's self eagerly
3) to snatch out or away
This is where we get the word "rapture" which means to be caught up or carried away.
Referenced from the Blue Letter Bible
Hebrew
Shalom