6/10/2011

GOOD NEWS FOR ANGELS SINNERS

In a recent personal Bible study, I was interested in examining what the Bible teach me about the origin of angels, the "sons of God" (Job 38:7) I typed a word in my digital library and the program showed me several entries for Bible literature and the Bible itself, where this word appears. I chose one of the publications to start my search by clicking on the book What the Bible Really Teach? in Chapter 10.

   Once there, read the first two paragraphs of the chapter, whose theme is "Spirit Creatures - how they affect us?" (see cut). Ali says that "getting to know a person usually involves learning something about his family." This has a lot of sense. So it would be great for me to know about the 'family of Jehovah' the angels. 

What is the origin of angels?
   After reading the two questions asked there, I went to two paragraph, which says that the Bible mentions many times these children of God. Hence, very interested by the question "Where did angels come from?" In response, cite here the text of Colossians 1:16, which says: "by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth."

   Although this text seems to say everything, I stopped to examine it more closely to see, among other things, whether he is actually answering the question. For some moments I thought of two different possibilities, and so I questioned myself, thinking, 'and here is saying that these "other things" that were created by Jesus, "in the heavens", has been anything but angels?' And, 'Is that an example of what I learned from my personal study on Genesis 1:1, this text could you talk of things "created" the heavens from the earth, ie, the "expanse"?' Anyway, the paragraph of the book teaches the Bible Teach exactly what he said 'things in the heavens' are the angels that Jehovah God created through his firstborn Son.
  
Curing any Questions
   To prove if it was really so, I decided to read the entire context and thus address any questions that arose in my mind now. Thus the text of Colossians 1:16 concludes: "the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him."

   It is mentioned here "the things invisible" and thought, 'It could be angels, but I'm still not convinced, after all, the "expanse" has also "things invisibles" the atmospheric gases, for example!' It mentions "thrones" and other things visible, but then also pondered: 'Here you are focusing "the things of the earth".' I continued reading more, in verse 17 and 18: "Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other] things were made to exist, and he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he might become the one who is first in all things;" Here, we can see, nothing can take to complete the information you want.

   We go further, to verses 19 to 22 (see clipping). Here was the answer to my question. The report says that God, through Jesus' sacrificial death, was 'him to reconcile again to himself all [other] things by making' yes, 'the things on earth and the things in heavens'. It says that things were being 'reconciled on earth' were we, human beings. So I thought 'Now everything makes sense, if we humans are the ones that need to be reconciled with God because we are separated from him by the question of sin, then "things in heavens" which also needed reconciliation could not be "expanse" and rather intelligent beings, animated, in the "heavens" of God Himself the angels who sinned'.

Pay close attention to studying!
   So I see that the book Bible Teach is correct in stating that 'the things in heavens' that Jehovah God created by His beloved Son, and to Him are the other thousands of angelic children. Actually, we Jehovah's Witnesses are being properly taught about the origin of angels. As we have seen, this biblical text actually shows us the origin of angels. We now understand that this act of 'creating the angels' was a literal or in other ways. Perhaps a future study Bible I can see that. For now I'm satisfied with what I found here. But. . . hey! Wait a minute! Do not even finish our personal study! I just saw something there that deserves our attention before we finish! Let us read again the text of Colossians 1:19 and 20!:

"Because [God] saw good for all fullness to dwell in him [in jesus], and through him to reconcile again to himself all [other] things by making [with God] peace through the blood [he shed] on the torture stake, no matter whether they are the things upon the earth or the things in the heavens." emphasis mine.

What happened to truth?
   Note that the text clearly says that through the 'blood that Jesus Christ shed', God would be 'making peace' with two groups of creatures, "they are the things upon the earth [we sinful humans] or the things in the heavens.[the angelic sinner]" Then the angels who sinned in there and burners antediluvian Enoch approached them also have the same opportunity that we humans  the possibility of also being reconciled to God through faith in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ! Does the Association has been preaching this very important information? I do not remember. So let's see? 
   
   I found an explanation of this text in the Watchtower magazine of January 15, 1997, (p. 11, para. 8) which says: Who is this divine peace offering? To all those who exercise genuine faith in Jesus Christ. The apostlePaul wrote that 'God saw good through Christ, to reconcile all things to himself, by making peace through theblood that Jesus shed on the torture stake.' The apostle said that this reconciliation would involve "the things in heavens"  that is, those who would be co-heirs withJesus in heaven. Would also involve "things on earth"  that is, those who would be favoredwith the opportunity to live forever on this earth , when it is brought to afull condition of Paradise. (Colossians 1:19, 20) For the benefit worth the sacrifice of Jesus and his obedienceto God with all your heart, all these could enjoy the warm friendship of God. Note James 2:22, 23  emphasis added.

   I'm shocked, and you? We see clearly that in explanation given by the magazine is no more room for angels in the text of Colossians. 'The things in heaven', now, are the 144.000 anointed and not the angels that 'God created through him [Jesus] and to him'. The text and context of Colossians 1:16-22, however, are quite explicit, there is about the angels and not "joint heirs with Jesus in heaven". So why loads of water "understanding" given to us by the Association is completely different from the biblical text itself and the explanation of the book Bible Teach?

   Do not know about you, dear reader, because in my opinion. . . how much do my personal Bible study, I see strange things in our beliefs as an organization. This is more a case of mistaken teaching that we were taught. Are there others? Most important now is that we believe? As the Bible really teaches, or what we as an organization that they teach? One thing I now know much more clearly: for why Jesus was' preaching to those sinful children. "And what Jesus preached? - 1 Peter 4: 18-20.

What "preached Jesus to the angels who sinned?
      Research Insight on the Scriptures "explains" that Jesus preached objective "to the spirits in prison": 
   In 1 Peter 3:19, 20, after describing the resurrection of Jesus for the spiritual life, the apostle says: "In this [state] also he went his way and preached to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient when the patience of God was waiting in Noah’s days, while the ark was being constructed" Commenting on this text, the Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, says: "I Ped. 3:19, a likely reference is not good news (no real evidence that Noah had preached to, nor with evidence that the spirits of antediluvian people are actually 'in prison'), but the act of Christ, after His resurrection in proclaiming His victory to fallen angelic spirits." (1981, Vol 3, p. 201) As already mentioned, ke · Rys · OS refers to a proclamation, which can either be good, as also bad, as when Jonah proclaimed the coming destruction of Nineveh. The only spirits trapped in the Scriptures refer to are those angels, the days of Noah, who were 'delivered them to pits of dense darkness" (2 Peter 2:4, 5), which were 'has reserved with eternal bonds under dense darkness for the judgment of the great day'. (Ju 6) Therefore, the preaching of the risen Jesus made such wicked angels could only have been preaching a trial. It may be mentioned that the book of Revelation, broadcast vision to John by Christ Jesus near the end of the first century CE, contains much about Satan the Devil and his demons, and the ultimate destruction of them, and therefore preaching of a trial. (Re 12-20) have used the past tense Peter ("preached") indicates that such preaching was made before writing his first letter Vol 3 pg. 308.

   It is curious that Insight in the Scriptures prefer to believe the explanation of an Expository Dictionary, changing the meaning of the word "preach" to escape the real reason and the message that Christ took to his brothers ceslestiais, namely: a message of 'peace' yes, 'reconciliation'. Will many of them repented and accepted the invitation to be 'reconciled'? Let us not be selfish  Twist and believe that yes!