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| ELEVEN APOSTLES-I� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ SEE VOLUME VI, PROMISE KEEPER, "Outcast Meets Outcast." | |||||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:16 [NIV] - Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. | |||||||||||
| [3]������ THE BIBLE, PSALM 104:3b-4 - He rides upon the wings of the wind.� The angels are his messengers ~ his servants of fire. | |||||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, PSALM 148:2 - Praise him, all his angels, all the armies of heaven. | |||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, GENESIS 22:11-17 - At that moment the Angel of God shouted to him from heaven, "Abraham!� Abraham!"� "Yes, Lord!" he answered.� "Lay down the knife; don't hurt the lad in any way," the Angel said...."I, the Lord, have sworn...I will multiply your descendants." | |||||||||||
| [6]������ SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "Odyssey of Truth" | |||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 9:9a [predicted about 500 years before Jesus] - Rejoice greatly, O my people!� Shout with joy!� For look ! your King is coming!� He is the righteous One, the Victor! | |||||||||||
| [8]������ See primarily EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, DEUTERONOMY.� Trying reading through all those laws and imagine having to remember them all. | |||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 4:15 - He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all ~ all but the sin. | |||||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, NUMBERS 4:23 - ...all of the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are eligible for the sacred work of the Tabernacle. | |||||||||||
| [11]����� See ALL OF VOLUME I ANGEL SONG. | |||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, ACTS 12:1-3a - That's when King Herod got it into his head to go after some of the church members.� He murdered James, John's brother.� When he saw how much it raised his popularity rating with the Jews, he arrested Peter.� See also most of VOL. II DREAM MAKER. | |||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:16-17 - Meanwhile, the eleven disciples were on their way to Galilee, headed for the mountain Jesus had set for their reunion.� The moment they saw him they worshiped him.� Some, though, held back, not sure about worship, about risking themselves totally. | |||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:18 - Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge:� "God authorized and commanded me to commission you." | |||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, ACTS 2:27[LB]; MATTHEW 16:18b - You will not leave my soul in hell or let the body of your Holy Son decay....I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out.� [NOTE:� Both of these words "hell" were translated from the same Greek word "hades."] | |||||||||||
| [16]���� In Matthew 28:17 it says they worshipped Jesus but also they doubted.� This word was translated from the Greek "distazo" meaning a double (di-) standing (stazo), implying uncertainty which way to take.� It was also said of Peter when he walked on water, then became frightened that he would drown (see Matthew 14:31). | |||||||||||
| [17]����� The word "baptise" was never translated into English; it is a transliteration of the Greek word "baptizo" which means to dip or immerse completely under.� THE BIBLE, ROMANS 6:4 - That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means.� When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. | |||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 3:13-17 - Jesus...wanted John to baptize him.� John objected....But Jesus insisted.� "Do it.� God's work, putting things right all these centuries, is coming together right now in this baptism"....The moment Jesus came up out of the baptismal waters, the skies opened....a voice, "This is my Son...delight of my life."� See also VOL. II, DREAM MAKER "Hesitant Herald." | |||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:19 - "God authorized and commanded me to commission you:� Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name:� Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." | |||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 14:26 - The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you.� He will remind you of all the things I have told you. | |||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, COLOSSIANS 2:12-14 - Having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him....God made you alive with Christ.� He forgave us all our sins, having cancelled the written code [Law of Moses in Old Testament], with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. | |||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, 1 CORINTHIANS 9:5 [NIV] - Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas [Peter]? | |||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 28:20 - "Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you.� I'll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age." | |||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 19:25-27 - ...Jesus' mother...stood at the foot of the cross.� Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved [John] standing near her.� He said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son."� Then to the disciple, "Here is your mother."� From that moment the disciple accepted her as his own mother. | |||||||||||
| [25]����� WILLIAM STEUART MCBIRNIE, THE SEARCH FOR THE TWELVE APOSTLES.� Today's Turkey is where historians and the Bible both say Peter spent a great deal of time.� Tradition says he ended up in today's Great Britain, and possibly in Rome late in life.� See also THE BIBLE, ACTS 9:32; GALATIANS 2:11, 1 CORINTHIANS 1:12 that say he lived on the Mediterranean coast, Antioch in Turkey, and Corinth in Greece. | |||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, ACTS 12:1-3 - That's when King Herod...murdered James, John's brother....all this during Passover Week [in Jerusalem]. | |||||||||||
| [27]����� THE BIBLE, GALATIANS 2:1, 9 - Jerusalem....James, Peter, and John ~ the pillars of the church. | |||||||||||
| [28]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 24:1-2 �Jesus then left the Temple.� As he walked away, his disciples pointed out how very impressive the Temple architecture was.� Jesus said..."There's not a stone in that building that is not going to end up in a pile of rubble." | |||||||||||
| [29]����� MC BIRNIE, John, the apostles to live the longest, went to Ephesus, a seacoast city of Turkey facing Greece.� See also THE BIBLE, REVELATION 1:9 - I, John...was on the island called Patmos because of God's Word, the witness of Jesus.� [Patmos is near Ephesus.] | |||||||||||
| [30]����������������� SEE VOLUME IV, FOLK HERO, "Catch the Wind and Water" | |||||||||||