{"id":320,"date":"2015-01-01T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/01\/01\/i-got-all-wrapped-up-in-translations-today\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:15:00","slug":"i-got-all-wrapped-up-in-translations-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/01\/01\/i-got-all-wrapped-up-in-translations-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I Got All Wrapped Up In Translations Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zechariah 1 \u2013 7<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n

Verse 1:6 talks about God\u2019s words versus man:<\/p>\n

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Didn\u2019t My words and My rules that I dictated through My servants the prophets outlive your\u00a0rebellious<\/em>\u00a0ancestors? That\u2019s why they repented eventually<\/em>\u00a0and realized, \u201cThe Eternal, Commander of\u00a0heavenly<\/em>\u00a0armies, has done to us exactly what He decided He would do\u00a0if we behaved this way<\/em>. His punishments match our evil thoughts and acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Notice every one of the figures in the Bible except Elijah and Enoch. Now one could argue both died, but that is not recorded in the Bible and although Jesus was raised He first died. Enough for the technical mumbo jumbo, the point is God\u2019s words have survived since written. How many authors can claim this feet? Sure some texts have survived, but how many are studied daily by so many across the world? There is a power in what is written that makes sense to the reader.<\/p>\n

Verse 3:1 had me want to \u201cstudy\u201d the term \u201cAccuser\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Then the heavenly messenger showed me\u00a0a fourth vision<\/em>: Joshua, the high priest, was standing in front of the Eternal\u2019s Special Messenger\u00a0who was presiding over a heavenly council meeting<\/em>. Standing to Joshua\u2019s right was the one called the Accuser.\u00a0He was ready to argue that Joshua\u00a0was unworthy to serve as high priest<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Many translations have the \u201cAccuser\u201d as \u201cSatan\u201d and was footnoted that way which made me wonder how the word \u201cSatan\u201d came to be. Satan was derived from the Hebrew word \u05e9\u05b8\u05bc\u05c2\u05d8\u05b8\u05df\u00a0(satan <\/em>in phonetic spelling using our alphabet) meaning adversary. So Satan became a \u201ctransliteration\u201d of a Hebrew word to a proper name, like Christ from the Greek word \u201cChristos\u201d.\u00a0 So while Satan is the proper name for the devil in English, that was not translated from text. Again a technically useless fact since today we know evil as Satan. \u201cA rose by any other name is just as sweet\u201d from Romeo and Juliet reminds us not to get hung up on the name of evil, just know it is evil.<\/p>\n

Verse 5:9 makes me think about the \u201cstork\u201d that delivers babies:<\/p>\n

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Then\u00a0in this vision,<\/em>\u00a0I looked up and saw two women moving forward with wings resembling the wings of storks. With\u00a0the power of<\/em>\u00a0the wind in their wings, they lifted the basket up\u00a0to a place somewhere far away,<\/em>\u00a0between heaven and earth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Notice \u201cwomen\u201d and \u201cbaskets\u201d can easily give one the mental image of a stork delivering a baby. This may be using an analogy that people of the time may understand or since the stork is an \u201cunclean\u201d bird it shows the people they are evil. The stork is viewed in nature as a very loyal bird returning to its nest for life therefore great images for mothers. Also, Norse and Roman myths have storks being a symbol of fertility. Greeks had a myth of them stealing babies. The stork could seem benign but have evil undertones and there to \u201cdemonize\u201d our world though childbirth.<\/p>\n

I know that last statement was off in the conspiracy wonderland, but often things like this are true and get dismissed since they seem false. Even still they provide a foundation for demonic influences to creep into our world if left unchecked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zechariah 1 \u2013 7 Verse 1:6 talks about God\u2019s words versus man: Didn\u2019t My words and My rules that I dictated through My servants the prophets outlive your\u00a0rebellious\u00a0ancestors? That\u2019s why they repented eventually\u00a0and realized, \u201cThe Eternal, Commander of\u00a0heavenly\u00a0armies, has done to us exactly what He decided He would do\u00a0if we behaved this way. His punishments … Continue reading “I Got All Wrapped Up In Translations Today”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}