Steven Braun (14 Dec 2014) "PROOF OF A RAPTURE REFERENCE FOUND IN THE LORD’S PRAYER (MATTHEW 6:13)"
PROOF OF A RAPTURE REFERENCE FOUND IN
THE LORD’S PRAYER (MATTHEW 6:13)
For some time now this one Scripture has bothered me
and until just two days ago, the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) opens my mind (so
to speak) and I will put my thoughts on paper.
Glory, Honour and Praise be to our Elohim, YHWH in the
Name of Yahshua HaMashiach!
The Scripture in question is found in the Lord’s
Prayer which the disciples asked Yahshua to teach them how to pray. As can be
seen from the Scripture below, I could not wrap my mind around the fact that we
ask ABBA YHWH not to lead us into temptation and I know for a fact that
our heavenly Father is not the one that tempts us but the enemy of our souls is
the one that tempt us into committing sin. The following Scriptures is proof;
Matt 26:41, Mark 14:38, Luke 4:13, Luke 22:46, 1 Tim 6:9 and James 1:12.
So there has to be a deeper meaning within this
particular Scripture, as we shall examine, and expounded upon.
Matthew 6:13 (KJV)
“And lead us notintotemptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.”
Another reference to “into temptation”
is found in the following Scriptures;
“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed
is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:31)
“And when he was at the place, he said
unto them, Pray that ye enter not
into temptation.” (Luke 22:40)
“And said unto them, Why sleep ye? Rise
and pray, lest ye enter into
temptation.” (Luke 22:46)
“But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
(1 Timothy 6:9)
These Scriptures are different from Matthew 6:13, where the LORD tells
them the pray which is a safeguard against temptation; but I need to add
another that will be the platform from which my thoughts are based on.
Revelation 3:10 (KJV)
“Because thou
hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,
which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth”
The Strong’s no for temptation is; G3986
“Peirasmos”
Also means; “trial, proving: the trial made of you
by my bodily condition, since condition served as to test the love of the
Galatians toward Paul (Gal. 4:14)”
“The trial of man's fidelity, integrity,
virtue, constancy”
“Temptation
(i.e. trial) of God by men”
The following translations reveal the correct
terminology of the above Scriptures;
The Brit
Chadashah (Hebrew Bible)
Matthew 6:13
“And do not
lead us into trial, but deliver
us from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory
forever and ever.”
Revelation 3:10
“Because you
kept the Word of My patience, I also
will keep you out of the hour of trial which is going to come upon all the world in order to try
those dwelling on the earth.”
The Besorah
Matthew 6:13
“And do not lead
us into trial, but deliver
us from the wicked one – because
yours is the reignand
the powerand the esteem, forever. Amĕn.”
Revelation 3:10
“Because you
have guarded My Word of endurance, I also shall guard you
from the hour of trial
which shall come upon all the world,
to try those who dwell on the
earth.”
The Amplified
Revelation 3:10
“Because you have guarded {and} kept My word of
patient endurance [have held fast the lesson of My patience with the expectant
endurance that I give you], I also will
keep you [safe] from the hour of trial (testing) which
is coming on the whole world to try those who dwell upon the earth.”
I need to interject here to get a
more clear understanding of the word “temptation”. According to the website, www.hebrew4christians.com the Lord’s
Prayer is given in Hebrew and the specific scripture is translated as follows,
in Hebrew;
I need to draw your attention to the
word “massah” which translates as ‘temptation’ and this is
what the writer expresses;
“Massah
comes from a root that means to melt, dissolve, or consume – as by fire that
tests the quality of something. As a noun, the word is often translated as “test,” “trail,” or “temptation,”
and is directly used to name the place where the children of Israel rebelled
against God (YHWH) in the wilderness (Ex 17:7; Deut 6:16, Psalm 95:8; Hebrews
3:7-9).”
Notice here that the writer is
mentioning the ‘place of testing, trial,
or temptation’ that the Children of Israel had to go through because of
their rebellion, comparing Matthew 6:13, where the prayer of our hearts are ‘not to lead us into’ that place,
so to speak.
Now first we need to establish what
will come upon the whole world and when will it happen as mentioned in
Revelation 3:10? Here are my thoughts.
Scriptures relating to “the whole world” and I quote;
Revelation 12:9
“And the great dragon was
cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he
was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
Revelation 16:14
“For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the
earth and of thewholeworld, to
gather them to thebattle of that great day of
God Almighty.”
We have to
backtrack a bit to see where Revelation 12:9 fits into the end time scenario.
Revelation 12:6
reveals that “the woman
fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God that they
should feed her there a thousand two
hundred and threescore days.”
This clearly shows that
Israel will flee into the wilderness where a place has been prepared for them for 1260 days, which is also known as 42
Hebrew months. Also note that satan will be cast out of the second heaven
at the beginning of the Great Tribulation, which is the last 1260 days, and he
will gather his forces to come against the LORD of Host at the battle of
Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14)
The following Scripture
pinpoint when the devil / satan and his angels have been cast out into the
earth.
Revelation 12:7-8 reads;
“And there was
war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon
fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.”
Let’s look again at
Revelation 3:10 where the Scripture talks about the ‘hour of trial’ and ‘to try those who dwell on the earth.’
According to the
Dictionary, “Trial” is defined as “The act of trying,
testing, or putting to the proof.”
From the same
Dictionary, “Try” is defined as “To put to a severe test; subject to strain, as of endurance, patience, affliction, or trouble.”
Both terms used
in these passages relates to a time of ‘testing’ which means that those who are
left on the earth will be tried and tested because of the Faith in Yahshua and
they have to endure right to the end.
Now I need to
establish what does the Scripture means by “the hour of trial”.
Now it will
become a little technical, but please bear with me. My research leads me to the
following webpage which I will quote verbatim.
Just a note,
this is to determine the part in Revelation 3:10 to identify what “the hour of
trial / temptation” means.
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In
Revelation 3:10 “ἐκ” (Greek) is used as
a preposition of time, qualifying the word "hour". Look at
some definitions of how "ἐκ" is used as a preposition of time.
"Temporal: from, from [this point] ... on." Daniel B. Wallace, GREEK GRAMMAR BEYOND THE BASICS Page 371.
"4.7.2. Temporal (time from which). One of the specific
applications of physical or spatial movement is temporal. The preposition ἐκ
may be used of a restricted time from
which someone or something has moved." Stanley E. Porter, IDIOMS OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT Page 155.
"5. of time - a. of
time when something beginsfrom, from - on, for, etc." William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich, A GREEK ENGLISH LEXICON OF THE NEW
TESTAMENT and other early Christian literature. Page 236.
Time = Although not as common, ἐκ can
express the time when something began, as in John 9:1 (blind since birth),
or the length of time that something happens, as in Acts 9:33 (bed-ridden for
eight years). Richard A. Young INTERMEDIATE NEW TESTAMENT GREEK Page 95.
Looking
at these definitions, we may say that, when "ἐκ" is used in a
temporal sense, the prepositional phrase it is used in indicates a point or period in time from which the verb or
adjective it qualifies applies, or a period of time during which the verb or
adjective it qualifies applies to. Let us look at some scriptural examples.
(Matthew 19:20) "The young man says to him, All these I have kept from my youth, what do I still
lack?" (Mark 10:20) "And answering he said to him, Teacher, all these I
have kept from my youth." (Luke 18:21) "And he said, All these I have kept from my youth."
All of
the three examples above are different versions of the same incident, where Yahshua
told the rich young ruler to keep the commandments if he wanted to enter into
eternal life.
In each
version the young man's reply was, "All these I have kept from my youth."
The word "from" is translated from "ἐκ" in the Greek, and is followed by a period of time during
which he said he had kept the commandments, "kept" being the verb qualified, and from (the beginning
of) his youth up to that present time being the time period. Here "ἐκ"
points to a point in time from which
he had begun to keep the commandments.
(Luke 8:27) "A certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time."
In this
example "ἐκ" is translated "for" and is followed by the period of time (a long
time) during which this man had demons. It should be understood to mean
that he had demons from a long time ago up to that time, the
prepositional phrase indicating the startingpoint of that period from which the verb "had" applied.
(John 6:64) "For Jesus knew from the
beginning who they were who did not believe."
Here
"ἐκ" is translated "from" and the prepositional phrase
"from the beginning"
indicates the start of the period of
time from which Yahshua knew who did not believe. It indicates the point
from which the verb "knew" applied.
(John 9:1) "And passing on he saw a man blind from birth."
Here
"ἐκ" is translated "from" and the prepositional phrase "from birth" indicates the point
in time from which the adjective "blind" applied to the man.
(John 9:32) "From the beginning of the age, it was not heard that anyone
opened the eyes of a man who had been born blind."
In this
case the Greek ἐκ τοῦ αἰῶνος (Gtr. ek tou aionos) literally translates as
"From the age" or "For the age" and obviously refers to a period of time from the beginning of the
age up to that present time. It cannot be much plainer than this example, that "ἐκ" followed by a period of time marks the beginning of that
period to which the verb "it was ... heard" applies.
So let us
go back and look at the original scripture.
(Revelation
3:10)
"Because you have kept the
word of my endurance, I will also keep
youfrom the hour of trial,
which is about to come upon the whole habitable world, to test those who dwell
on the earth."
The verb
here is "I will keep",
"ἐκ" is translated "from", and the time period is "the
hour of trial".
The
understanding then is that God (YHWH)
will keep us, from the beginning of the hour of trial onwards.
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Now, from
this study it is clear that the term “the hour of trial” refers to the beginning of a time period, and in this
case the beginning of the “Great
Tribulation”, after satan and his fallen angels has been cast onto the
earth. Very important to grasp this concept!
In Matthew
6:13, the Scripture reads;
“And do not lead us into trial, but deliver us from the evil one,
for Your’s is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.” (Brit
Chadashah)
In this
Scripture, I want to point out the first part of the verse, which reads, “And do not lead us into trial...” which tells
me, that as we ask ABBA YHWH not to lead us into the hour of trial which is
the beginning of the ‘Great Tribulation’ as referred to “trial / temptation” and also the time
period that has been proven in the above paragraphs.
If we analyze the Scripture in part, “…butdeliver us from…”
applying a contextual perspective, one needs to, dig deeper to the root words
in order to arrive at the objective of the sentence in relation to the context
of Scripture.
In the Books of the Prophets, “deliver
us from” which is mentioned in Daniel 3:17 reads;
“If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning
fiery furnace, and he willdeliver us out of thine hand, O
king.”
Very powerful statement that is made here and by faith they knew that
our Elohim is able to deliver them and He will deliver them out of the fiery
furnace!
The Strong’s no are H7804, which is translated as “shĕzab” in
Aramaic. The translation reveals that the word means “to deliver”.
The “Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon” reveals that “shĕzab” means “to set free / to liberate”.
In the Brit Chadashah, Matthew 6:13, “deliver” with Strong’s no; G4506, which is translated as “rhyomai” in Greek, has the meaning of “to rescue, to deliver”.
And this is also a conformation that when the Disciples asked Yahshua to
teach them how to pray, He put in the Prayer our deliverance from the “Great
Tribulation”, meaning, that as we pray the LORD’s prayer, we ask ABBA YHWH
to “rescue / set free / liberate”
us from the beginning and duration
of the “Great Tribulation”, and that
He will not ‘lead’ us into the “Great Tribulation” but deliver us from it.