thus “peculiar people”, Titus 2:14. According to a deeper root translation a more accurate meaning for “peculiar people” should be considered as a people wherein God had a superlative, propriety interest above and beyond the common interest of all other nations of the world. Therefore, the most accurate translation should rather be “His treasured people.”
Peripoiesis, pronounced per-ee-poy’-ay-sis; means “purchased, or possession. A people for the Lord’s own possession; a people who are His very own”.
I Peter 2:9,10 declared, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:”
“Which in times past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy”.
Each one of the Scriptures of the Old Testament reveals God’s given commandments unto His people prior to them being called peculiar. Peculiar people are required to faithfully keep and observe the Lord’s ordinances; they are the chosen holy people of God, favored over all the nations of the earth.
Another Hebrew word for peculiar is cuwr, (pronounced, soor); it renders the meaning “of the Temple” (Exodus 19:5). This indicates the meaning of God’s ownership or property; His holy possession. Our body is the Temple of the Lord where He inhabits, dwells, or abides. The Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus (American Edition) defines peculiar as “strange; odd; unusual; exclusively belonging to the individual as particular; special”.
There are earthly peculiar descriptions (kinds, or types), heavenly peculiar descriptions, and natural, earthly representations that possess heavenly qualities. For...
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... of maintaining the strength and power of words often seen in the Holy Bible. As we have seen and come to know; God himself has used the term “peculiar” when referring to the nation of Israel and those who live holy unto Him; also called “peculiar treasures”. It would therefore belittle the significance of this word to use it loosely in biblical teachings; thereby, making it common. To use a word such as peculiar which has such great meaning in the Scriptures, other than to describe what God considers dear and adoring to His heart, greatly lessens the impact of the power and effect of His Word. As we have learned, the application of this word, “peculiar”, is solely used when referring to God’s people. Why then utilize this significant word for any common connotation other than to reaffirm God’s statement of peculiar beings associated with His chosen people.
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Yet these foreigners were not required to keep most of the ceremonial aspects of the Mosaic law (Ex. 12:43,44,48; 9:33; Deut. 14:21). Only the circumcised were allowed to participate in the Passover, the old covenant communion meal. The two "marks of the covenant" separated members of the "church" from members of the "state." There was also a separation between the priests of the ceremonial law, the Levites, and the magistrates of the civil law, the elders and judges (Lev. 14:35; 27:11; Deut. 1:16; 16:18; 19:12; 21:2; 25:1).
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In 1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:22 King David was called a man after God’s own heart, but even he did things contrary to God’s Law. When David ate the Shrewbread of the Temple in Samuel 21:1-6 he broke the law and yet in Matthew 12:3-4, Mark 2:25-26, and Luke 6:1-5 Jesus uses David’s example of eating the shrewbread to justify his disciples. This paper is going to show how David’s actions compare to the Law, how Jesus describes David’s actions, and how David’s actions compare to the kings of other nations.
Vine, W. E., Merrill F. Unger, and William White. Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words: With Topical Index. Nashville: T.
Within the old testament the ten commandments are used to convey the idea of justice. Along with the ideas of democracy, individual worth, freedom, the rights of human divine purpose in the world. The commandments are a set of rules that are given by god to allow an individual to take the “just” path to righteousness. When you look within the ten commandments you begin to see that the first four targeting the person vs person relationship while the last six focus the person vs person interaction . The ten commandments
Pope, in his Essay on Man, takes the religious approach when thinking about the common man. In the epistles, Pope suggests that the common man is ungrateful of God. He claims that man only blames God for their hardships, but does not thank him for their bounty. Pope brings to light a theological theory that man attempts to claim that they are better than God, to which he responds with scathing regard. Pope regards the common man as disrespecting because of their blasphemous lack of appreciation of their lord. In this philosophical poem, it could be seen that his distaste for the common man’s disregard of God is relates to Pope’s presentation of his view on the Universe; that no matter how imperfect, complex, inscrutable and disturbing the Universe
...universe. 2 Corinthians 5:20 We are Christ’s ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, “Be reconciled to God!” 2 Peter 2:9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are a kingdom of royal priests, God’s holy nation, his very own possession. This is so you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
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As someone that has been called from darkness into the Kingdom of light, proclaiming the good news to the entire world is not only a matter of necessity but it is also compulsory, and it requires our immediate action. {1 Peter, 2:-9}
Prayer is an important part of our daily lives. In praying regularly we grow closer to God for we are communicating with God. In prayer we may be asking him for help or thanking and praising him for His blessings but we are speaking with the Lord and He sincerly wants to hear and answer the prayers of His people. The second petition in the Lord’s prayer is your kingdom come. This petition is mentioned in Luke 11 when Jesus is teaching his disciples to pray and in Matthew 6:10 in Jesus’ sermon on the mount where the subject was the kingdom of heaven.
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Jewish scholars attributed "ideal" preexistence to things (law, temple) and persons (Adam, Moses) deeply reverenced, echoed perhaps in Paul's calling Christ "last Adam. . . from heaven." Greek thinking, reflected in Philo, was familiar with preexistence of souls. But it is unnecessary to find here more than a source of usable terms. The idea that the Son of God, eternally preexisting in glory with the Father, moved by love became incarnate was too central to Christian faith to depend upon coincidences of language for its basis.