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2 Peter 1
3For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are
requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [[1]
full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and
excellence (virtue).
4By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly
great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral
decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness
(lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.
Matthew 16
13Now when Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked
His disciples, Who do people say that the Son of Man is?
14And they answered, Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah;
and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.
15He said to them, But who do you [yourselves] say that I am?
16Simon Peter replied, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17Then Jesus answered him, Blessed (happy, fortunate, and
[1]
to be envied) are you, Simon Bar-Jonah. For flesh and blood [men] have not
revealed this to you, but My Father Who is in heaven.
18And I tell you, you are [2]
Peter [Greek, Petros--a large piece of rock], and on this rock [Greek, petra--a
[3] huge rock like Gibraltar] I
will build My church, and the gates of Hades (the powers of the
[4]
infernal region) shall [5] not
overpower it [or be strong to its detriment or hold out against it].
19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you
bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth
[6]
must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful)
on earth [7] must be what is
already loosed in heaven.(1)
Matthew 18
18Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper
and unlawful on earth must be
[1]
what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper
and lawful on earth must be [2]
what is already permitted in heaven.
19Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together,
make a symphony together) about whatever [anything and
[3]
everything] they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father
in heaven.
20For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My
followers) in (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them.(1)
Zechariah 4
6Then he said to me, This [addition of the bowl to the candlestick,
causing it to yield a ceaseless supply of oil from the olive trees] is the word
of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit
[of Whom the oil is a symbol], says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 61
1THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed
and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and
afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison
and of the eyes to those who are bound,(1)
2To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord [the year of His favor]
[1] and the day of vengeance of
our God, to comfort all who mourn,(2)
3To grant [consolation and joy] to those who mourn in Zion--to give
them an ornament (a garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of
joy instead of mourning, the garment [expressive] of praise instead of a heavy,
burdened, and failing spirit--that they may be called oaks of righteousness
[lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice, and
right standing with God], the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.
8For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong with violence
or a burnt offering. And I will faithfully give them their recompense in truth,
and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with them.
9And their offspring shall be known among the nations and their
descendants among the peoples. All who see them [in their prosperity] will
recognize and acknowledge that they are the people whom the Lord has blessed.
10I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God;
for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the
robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a
bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11For as [surely as] the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a
garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so [surely] the Lord God will
cause rightness and justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations
[through the self-fulfilling power of His word].
Isaiah 60
5Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and
tremble with joy [at the glorious deliverance] and be enlarged; because the
abundant wealth of the [Dead]
[1]
Sea shall be turned to you, unto you shall the nations come with their
treasures.(1)
Isaiah 59
18According as their deeds deserve, so will He repay wrath to His
adversaries, recompense to His enemies; on the foreign islands and coastlands He
will make compensation.
19So [as the result of the Messiah's intervention] they shall
[reverently] fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the
rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the
Lord will lift up a standard against him and put him to flight [for He will come
like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives].(1)
20He shall come as a Redeemer to Zion and to those in Jacob (Israel)
who turn from transgression, says the Lord.
21As for Me, this is My covenant or league with them, says the Lord:
My Spirit, Who is upon you [and Who writes the law of God inwardly on the
heart], and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your
mouth, or out of the mouths of your [true, spiritual] children, or out of the
mouths of your children's children, says the Lord, from henceforth and forever.(2)
Isaiah 59
1BEHOLD, THE Lord's hand is not shortened at all, that it cannot
save, nor His ear dull with deafness, that it cannot hear.
2But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.
Isaiah 58
8Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing
(your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your
righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with
God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory
of the Lord shall be your rear guard.(1)
9Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He
will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression
[wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or
the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, and wicked speaking,(2)
10And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for
the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in
darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday.
11And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought
and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered
garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.
14Then will you delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you to
ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage
[promised for you] of Jacob your father; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken
it.(3)
Isaiah 54
10For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or
removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My
covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion
on you.
16Behold, I have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals and
who produces a weapon for its purpose; and I have created the devastator to
destroy.
17But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every
tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the
wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the
heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the
Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they
obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification],
says the Lord.
Isaiah 53
1WHO HAS believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message
[of that which was revealed to us]? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been
disclosed?(1)
2For [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant, and
like a root out of dry ground; He has no form or comeliness [royal, kingly
pomp], that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.
3He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows
and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men
hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have
any esteem for Him.
4Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and
distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we
[ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with
leprosy].(2)
5But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being
for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and
made whole.
6All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his
own way; and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt and iniquity of us
all.(3)
7He was oppressed, [yet when] He was afflicted, He was submissive and
opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.
8By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His
generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the
living [stricken to His death] for the transgression of my [Isaiah's] people, to
whom the stroke was due?
9And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man
in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His
mouth.(4)
10Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to
grief and made Him sick. When You and He make His life an offering for sin [and
He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual]
offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord
shall prosper in His hand.
11He shall see [the fruit] of the travail of His soul and be
satisfied; by His knowledge of Himself [which He possesses and imparts to
others] shall My [uncompromisingly] righteous One, My Servant, justify many and
make many righteous (upright and in right standing with God), for He shall bear
their iniquities and their guilt [with the consequences, says the Lord].
12Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great [kings and
rulers], and He shall divide the spoil with the mighty, because He poured out
His life unto death, and [He let Himself] be regarded as a criminal and be
numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore [and took away] the sin of many and
made intercession for the transgressors (the rebellious).(5)
Isaiah 52
6Therefore My people shall know what My name is and what it means;
therefore they shall know in that day that I am He who speaks; behold, I AM!(1)
7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good
tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes
salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!(2)
13Behold, My [1]
Servant shall deal wisely and shall prosper; He shall be exalted and extolled
and shall stand very high.
In Christ Love
Roy Atkinson
January 2004
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