Biblical Understanding
Reading God's Word Using God's   
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Progressive Revelation Read In Literary Context
The Holy Spirit Leads Using Written Revelation Read And Understood In Literary Context, All Other Methods Are Not of God  
New Testament Progressive Revelation Order
The beginning of the New Testament literary contextual era started with the event of
Pentecost when the Holy Spirit arriving on the scene of the new body of believers.
Causing many of the disciples of Jesus to speak in all the common languages of each
pilgrim who traveled to the Jewish feast from their respected regions of Asia
Minor/Roman Empire. All foreigners understood by hearing their own dialect (Acts 2).

This was the beginning of the fulfilment of the promise of Jesus (John 12-17); to go back
to Heaven and send another who would come along side them and lead them to
remember all which He had taught them during the past three and a half years. It was at
this event, that the beginning of the common practice of Jewish journalism, began to be
used to enable an accurate accounting of the Messiah's words to be proclaimed to all.

The common practice of recording all new teachings by the servants of the Messiah
King was nothing new among the Jews. This naturally took place and was the "Base"
upon which all verbal teachings were constructed and prepared for proclamation.

Three years of teaching by Jesus to an uneducated common folk -- disciples -- who
were not in the common habit of writing all the words of a King, which is what all previous
Kings always surrounded themselves with -- scribes, recording kingly wisdom -- to
preserve their legacy, now needed to be preserved for all generations.

The Holy Spirit working strictly with the previous Word of Jesus, miraculously caused
the disciples (who spoke only ONE dialect), to speak all the dialects of the pilgrims
attending the feast. The natural process of recording this SIGN of Jesus, as he said
would happen, was without a doubt accomplished by starting a journal, a teaching of
Jesus was established in a writing -- Decree -- a Jewish king's word becomes a
"Testament."

This process is what the Holy Spirit used to cause all to recall the words of Jesus'
teaching while on earth in Israel. The writings of the N.T. started to be penned and
preserved formally for the future generations around the year 40 A.D. All the journals
and records caused by the action of the Holy Spirit enabling believers in Jesus to speak,
were consulted and the Spirit of God moved the N.T. writers to produce a formal writing,
complied one at a time over a period of sixty years.

As the Jewish believers in Jesus as Messiah King came to understand this, it became a
very important event and a great concern. This event or process, was the "Production"
of the King's Royal Decree, the very documentation they would legally exist in as a
nation of people -- citizens -- of the King. Without a written word, there was no legal
standing, therefore meaning they were a fraud as a nation. A "Testament" must be
produced and for the first time in human history, it would be done while the King was not
present, viewed as impossible in the eyes of mankind. This is extremely important to
understand as you read the N.T. writings, for it is the basis upon which all the biblical
writers worked when they penned their God-directed thoughts. They were citizens of a
nation of the true God and Creator. They were waiting on Jesus, God the Creator, as
their King. The Holy Spirit lead one writing at a time in a specific order of a decree.

Pentecost occurred and caused people from all over the Roman Empire to speak
about the new jewish movement; a group of believers in Jesus as Messiah and King of
Israel. The Old Testament was being presented without the additions and changes the
Jewish factions added during the past 600 years.

The greek translation of the Old Testament was being used as a reliable version, and
therefore approved, which enabled the common man to have access to a full
understanding of the O.T. truths. Hebrew was not the common language and the Greek
translation was outlawed by the Jewish authorities.

The teachings of Jesus were being recalled and remembered by all who believed in
Jesus when they had sat under His teachings daily. The first writing the Holy Spirit
caused to be penned and preserved for all generations in time, was very appropriately
written by the Messiah's human brother, James. He was a devout O.T. Jew who, after
Jesus rose from the dead, understood his brother was God in the flesh, Messiah King.

Note: The book of Acts was written by Luke as an historical record of the actions of the
new government Jesus the King started. Luke provides the time-line of events
in which the Holy Spirit caused seven disciples to write a New Testament. Luke
wrote Acts in the late 60's A.D. but, I will list the chapter and verse where each of
the N.T. books were written according to the record of Luke. Also note, these
actual real time writing events are dated within the record and are not the
dates of the manuscripts which we have today, those dates are obviously much
later, having been copies of the originals which were written where I list them.

34 - 40 A.D. writing period, Jesus teachings written in fragments, collected - combined.

                                         Acts chapters 1 - 5

-  Mark's Gospel, an educated disciple wrote for an uneducated fisherman,
Peter, the account of a common man's King, who served His common Jewish                    
citizens while being God the Creator, this "Messiah" the Jews did not understand             
would come.
-  James, to Jerusalem Jewish believers in Jesus as King,  "First Truths For Jews."

                                         Acts chapters 6 - 8

-  Matthew's Gospel  The account of the Jewish Messiah as being Jesus of Nazareth.

                                          Acts chapters 9 - 19
                      Saul -- Killer of Believers -- Converted 37 A.D.
        Writes 13 letters to Churches He Started as "Paul" , 41 - 69 A.D.

-  Galatians
-  1 & 2 Thessalonians

                                          Acts chapter 20: 1-5
-  1 & 2 Corinthians
-  Romans

                                          Acts chapters 20:6 - 28
-  Luke's Gospel
-  Ephesians
-  Philippians
-  Colossians
-  1 & 2 Timothy
-  Titus
-  Philemon
                                         Paul's Death 67 - 68 A.D.

-  Acts, written to provide the record for the younger generation of believers who were
about to go through the burning of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and the dispersion
of the Jews all throughout the Roman Empire  Luke's tribute to Paul's work
whom God placed in his care physically to keep him alive to serve Him.

-  1 & 2 Peter, writes to his mission churches 65 - 69 A.D. and is killed prior to 70 A.D.
-  Jude, Jesus' human brother writes a short letter of encouragement before destruction.

                                     Rome Burns Jerusalem 70 A.D.

-  Hebrews, written by Paul's disciples using his records and writing notes in part. The
     message was for Jewish believers to not attempt to return to O.T. sacrificial
     laws because they believed God allowed Jerusalem to be destroyed for
     not practicing the Mosiac laws of substitution sacrifices but instead
     proclaiming Jesus as the "Lamb of God" who takes away the sin of the world.

80 - 100 A.D.  John comes from Ephesus where he had taken care of Jesus' mother
          Mary, whom he had kept from the public eye until she died peacefully.
-  John's Gospel   presented Jesus as God the Creator. Most mature truths about Jesus.
-  1,2,3, John  are letters to John's mission churches. Admonishment to stay in all of N.T.
-  Revelation  is written to close the entire event of the production of a written revelation.
And N.T. Literary Era
There are many research studies in
print addressing biblical manuscript
dating. Progressive Revelation Order is
not presenting those manuscript dates
or attempting to represent the known or
commonly accepted scholarly date of
earliest known copies.

Instead the purpose is to present the
Bible reader with, as close as possible,
the actual real-time occurrence the
biblical writers worked within as they
wrote.

The majority of information and data
was supplied by the biblical writer
within the writing itself.

There is an amount of common sense
used to reason a writing date as being
several years prior to the first
presentation of the writing by the writer.
From this date, common sense again
dictates the truth that many years
passed during the natural copying
process from one generation to the
next, and one geographical area to the
next, which is what Paul and Peter, as
well as the O.T. Jewish Kings and
Prophets promoted and encouraged
their readers to accomplish.

For instance, in the case of Mark
writing a gospel of Jesus because he
was a educated Jew/Greek, the
information was provided by Peter (who
was unable to write because he was
unschooled, being a fishermen) who
stayed at Mark's parent's home when in
Jerusalem

Also in the case of James, Jesus'
human brother, we understand he was
at first antagonistic and sceptical of his
older brother being in reality, God the
Creator. Being heavily schooled in
Judaism he also listened to and was
very familiar with Jesus' teachings. He
had access to these teachings, and
used them when writing to the Jewish
believers after Jesus ascended to
heaven. His writing was the base upon
which the believers started to grow in
the teachings of Jesus as a King. Luke
in Acts, records him being killed early
on in the formation of believers as a
nation in waiting for the King to return
and rule the world.
Obviously James taught first and then
put his teachings in writing near the end
of his life so that the future generations
would have access to the first hand
truth that Jesus was the God Man.

In the case of Luke writing Acts, his
design and intention was to provide
future generations with the history of
how the disciples of Jesus became
Apostles, and started to be the
foundation of the "People for God's
Name" on earth. Having travelled with
Paul from the start, he had access to all
of Paul's events and teachings, also all
the other six writers of the N.T. books
and/or letters. He was able to research
the genealogy of Jesus using more
than Jewish records. He took from his
notes dating from 40 - 68 A.D. and
selected exactly what he needed to
paint a picture of the essential truths all
readers of future generation would
need to learn to have faith in Jesus as
their Messiah and King.

In the New Testament as well as the
Old Testament, the writers all share the
same purpose, which was, to provide a
written account of the action of Jehovah
Jesus to create a "People for His Name"
with each writers contribution being
used as the base for the next writer.
This process of a production of the
history of building this nation of God, a
Kingdom of God on Earth, starts at a
specific time and ends at a specific time.

It is a fact that God provided more
revelation than what is recorded in the
biblical books, however, God did not
preserve and cause them to be
included along with the collection of
writings which eventually became 66
books. Instead God allowed many
written accounts to pass by the
wayside, because they were not
needed to accomplish the goal.

To provide an historical series of
snapshots through a collection of
writings God caused to be preserved
for all generation from the point in time
from the first writer to the last, and then
to secure and preserve this finished
collection of writings for all the ages.

Many writers had no idea God was
using them as they journaled. Many
who copied those originals were
directed by God as well, resulting in
edits to the originals.

Some were personally ordered by
God to pen a record for the purpose of
providing a record for all mankind
If the writing is here, God did it. Nothing
is missing or included which should not
be Thus the original arrangement of
biblical writings is knowable.