Post by Giller on Aug 25, 2019 12:48:03 GMT -5
We had a good talk about a certain scripture in 1 Peter today.
Here is the verse:
1Pe 4:5
(5) Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
I am realizing more and more how the bible interprets itself, and is very specific in it's words.
What is the quick and the dead referring to?
Is it the people living on earth and the ones that have already passed away in this case?
Or is it as it says the quick and the dead?
Well what does it talk about, before verse 5?
1Pe 4:1-4
(1) Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
(2) That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
(3) For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
(4) Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
In our time past we were unbelievers, and them that think it strange that we (believers) run not with the same excess of riot as they (unbelievers), are referring to unbelievers.
But they that suffer in the flesh for God, and live the rest of their lives to the will of God, referred to in these verses, are believers.
So the verses before verse 5, point to believers, and unbelievers.
Now notice in verse 5, it specifically says the quick and the dead, and not the living and the dead.
Well in chapter 3, this how the word quickened is used:
1Pe 3:18-19
(18) For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
(19) By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Jesus never needed salvation, and was not quickened here in the sense of being saved (which he never needed to be), but was quickened by the Spirit (big S), by which he preached to the spirits in prison.
And the word quicken is used in many ways in the bible.
But now when we get saved, we get quickened also, but in a way to were we get saved, to were we get Christ's life in us.
Now let us go back to our scripture:
1Pe 4:5
(5) Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
The quick here are the ones who have received Christ.
There is a judgment for the quick, or believers, which happens at Christ's judgment seat, and there is a judgment for unbelievers which happens at the Great White throne of judgment.
Here is the verse:
1Pe 4:5
(5) Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
I am realizing more and more how the bible interprets itself, and is very specific in it's words.
What is the quick and the dead referring to?
Is it the people living on earth and the ones that have already passed away in this case?
Or is it as it says the quick and the dead?
Well what does it talk about, before verse 5?
1Pe 4:1-4
(1) Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
(2) That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
(3) For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
(4) Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
In our time past we were unbelievers, and them that think it strange that we (believers) run not with the same excess of riot as they (unbelievers), are referring to unbelievers.
But they that suffer in the flesh for God, and live the rest of their lives to the will of God, referred to in these verses, are believers.
So the verses before verse 5, point to believers, and unbelievers.
Now notice in verse 5, it specifically says the quick and the dead, and not the living and the dead.
Well in chapter 3, this how the word quickened is used:
1Pe 3:18-19
(18) For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
(19) By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Jesus never needed salvation, and was not quickened here in the sense of being saved (which he never needed to be), but was quickened by the Spirit (big S), by which he preached to the spirits in prison.
And the word quicken is used in many ways in the bible.
But now when we get saved, we get quickened also, but in a way to were we get saved, to were we get Christ's life in us.
Now let us go back to our scripture:
1Pe 4:5
(5) Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
The quick here are the ones who have received Christ.
There is a judgment for the quick, or believers, which happens at Christ's judgment seat, and there is a judgment for unbelievers which happens at the Great White throne of judgment.