Hey John,

 

Nice study on Psalm 120, JR would LOVE it ! 😊 (we miss him!)

 

Two comments:

 

2042 is not only a long way off, it is certainly out of the 70-80 year generation span from 1948 and at 75 years, is pushing it if the count is from 1967.  Just another reason to think perhaps 2020! 😊!

 

Second comment:  In the last few years there has been much more talk of the Sudden Destruction being aligned with the Rapture.  Your study gives another reason to consider that as valid, the reason being:  In the Amos verse you quote, God says He plucked the brand OUT OF the fire…He didn’t say before the fire started, it was stated to be contemporaneously.   Dictionary meaning of Firebrand is an already burning piece of wood So, your statement “prior to” may be very understated – prior to, like in seconds!  That’s a thought, isn’t it?

 

Here’s is Webster’s on FIREBRAND and you might find the last phrase extra interesting:

Firebrand is not a new word. It comes from the Middle English firbrand (or firbrond), which itself comes from combining the words—fasten your seatbelts—fire and brand. The earliest meaning of brand is “a piece of wood that has been or is burning (such as one from a hearth or a burning building),” a sense that has been in use since the 12th century… Firebrand has been used since the 13th century; the Oxford English Dictionary records an obsolete sense (“a spark, a flame”) dating from about 1275. The earliest sense defined by most general English dictionaries (“a piece of burning wood”) dates from the 14th century.

The word has taken on a number of figurative meanings over the centuries. One of the older ones is “a person damned to burn in hell.”

 

The Strong’s says it may be from an unused word akin to a “poker” with which to stir a fire, yet the “plucked out” seems to make the meaning take on a more ‘twinkling of an eye’ element-an almost simultaneous action.

 

Anyway, we sure enjoyed reading your Psalm 2020 interpretation a al JR Church!

 

Maranatha!

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Thanks, Day!
John