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| + | It is not just being clever to call the dietary law 'dinner theater'. Here we have small theaters where you can see a play while you eat your dinner as if at a restaurant. The play is both entertaining (hopefully) and usually has a message from the playwright. Sometimes the messages are political or moral. | ||
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It is not just being clever to call the dietary law 'dinner theater'. Here we have small theaters where you can see a play while you eat your dinner as if at a restaurant. The play is both entertaining (hopefully) but usually has a message from the playwright. Sometimes the messages are political or moral. | It is not just being clever to call the dietary law 'dinner theater'. Here we have small theaters where you can see a play while you eat your dinner as if at a restaurant. The play is both entertaining (hopefully) but usually has a message from the playwright. Sometimes the messages are political or moral. | ||
The dietary law was given to Israel as a script for a dinner theater to be performed by them for the audience of the rest of the world. They would follow the law, and the rest of the world would observe them doing so. Neither group could understand the message until it was revealed through Christ. | The dietary law was given to Israel as a script for a dinner theater to be performed by them for the audience of the rest of the world. They would follow the law, and the rest of the world would observe them doing so. Neither group could understand the message until it was revealed through Christ. | ||
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| + | The revelation through Christ was not immediate, nor was it what we would consider miraculous. They had been taught the revelation while they lived with Jesus before the cross. They did not understand it, nor remember it, so they were distraught when Jesus died, rather than being joyful and anticipating his resurrection. Finally Jesus had to send the Holy Spirit to remind them of his teaching. <ref>[[Joh 14:26]] But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.</ref> | ||
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| + | They then studied the scriptures, remembering what Jesus taught them. When Mark wrote his book, they thought the beginning started with the teaching of John the Baptist. A decade or so later Matthew captured the teaching which had matured with time, and they then understood that the beginning started with Abraham. They had learned to see Christ in the history of Israel. When Luke wrote, the beginning had been pushed back to Adam as they now saw Christ in the story of the Garden and the flood. | ||
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| + | John was the last to write. By that time, he had learned that the very strokes of the Hebrew alphabet spoke of Christ. He uses these meaning to derive the teaching of 1Jo 5:7,8. <ref>1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1Jo 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.</ref> He used Hebrew word play to derive the doctrine of John 1:1-4. | ||
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| + | From the tools the New Testament authors teach us, we too can read the hidden message of the dinner theater in the dietary law, as well as the rest of scripture. | ||
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| + | They would follow the law, and the rest of the world would observe them doing so. Neither group could understand the message until it was revealed through Christ. | ||
The revelation through Christ was not immediate, nor was it what we would consider miraculous. They had been taught the revelation while they lived with Jesus before the cross. They did not understand it, nor remember it, so they were distraught when Jesus died, rather than being joyful and anticipating his resurrection. Finally Jesus had to send the Holy Spirit to remind them of his teaching. <ref>Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.</ref> | The revelation through Christ was not immediate, nor was it what we would consider miraculous. They had been taught the revelation while they lived with Jesus before the cross. They did not understand it, nor remember it, so they were distraught when Jesus died, rather than being joyful and anticipating his resurrection. Finally Jesus had to send the Holy Spirit to remind them of his teaching. <ref>Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 11:28, 4 December 2021
Dinner theater analogy
It is not just being clever to call the dietary law 'dinner theater'. Here we have small theaters where you can see a play while you eat your dinner as if at a restaurant. The play is both entertaining (hopefully) and usually has a message from the playwright. Sometimes the messages are political or moral.
The dietary law was given to Israel as a script for a dinner theater to be performed by them for the audience of the rest of the world. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
They then studied the scriptures, remembering what Jesus taught them. When Mark wrote his book, they thought the beginning started with the teaching of John the Baptist. A decade or so later Matthew captured the teaching which had matured with time, and they then understood that the beginning started with Abraham. They had learned to see Christ in the history of Israel. When Luke wrote, the beginning had been pushed back to Adam as they now saw Christ in the story of the Garden and the flood.
John was the last to write. By that time, he had learned that the very strokes of the Hebrew alphabet spoke of Christ. He uses these meaning to derive the teaching of 1Jo 5:7,8. [1] He used Hebrew word play to derive the doctrine of John 1:1-4.
From the tools the New Testament authors teach us, we too can read the hidden message of the dinner theater in the dietary law, as well as the rest of scripture. </ref>
They would follow the law, and the rest of the world would observe them doing so. Neither group could understand the message until it was revealed through Christ.
The revelation through Christ was not immediate, nor was it what we would consider miraculous. They had been taught the revelation while they lived with Jesus before the cross. They did not understand it, nor remember it, so they were distraught when Jesus died, rather than being joyful and anticipating his resurrection. Finally Jesus had to send the Holy Spirit to remind them of his teaching. [2]
They then studied the scriptures, remembering what Jesus taught them. When Mark wrote his book, they thought the beginning started with the teaching of John the Baptist. A decade or so later Matthew captured the teaching which had matured with time, and they then understood that the beginning started with Abraham. They had learned to see Christ in the history of Israel. When Luke wrote, the beginning had been pushed back to Adam as they now saw Christ in the story of the Garden and the flood.
John was the last to write. By that time, he had learned that the very strokes of the Hebrew alphabet spoke of Christ. He uses these meaning to derive the teaching of 1Jo 5:7,8. [3] He used Hebrew word play to derive the doctrine of John 1:1-4.
From the tools the New Testament authors teach us, we too can read the hidden message of the dinner theater in the dietary law, as well as the rest of scripture.- ↑ 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1Jo 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
- ↑ Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
- ↑ 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1Jo 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
