In the biblical sense number 8 means that you will start a new phase in your life. According to the Bible, number 8 is a symbol of new beginnings and very often this number was in a close connection with Jesus Christ.
The number 8 represents a new beginning, meaning a new order or creation, and man’s true ‘born again’ event when he is resurrected from the dead into eternal life.
Eight is also an integral part of Jesus’ sacrifice. Like the Passover lamb, Jesus was selected as the Lamb to take away man’s sins on Nisan 10 (April 1, 30 A.D. – John 12: 28 – 29). He was crucified on Nisan 14 (Wednesday, April 5 in 30 A.D.). His resurrection occurred three complete days after he was buried, which was at the end of the weekly Sabbath day that fell on Nisan 17. Nisan 17 was day 8, counting inclusively, from the time Christ was selected as man’s sacrificial Lamb. All this bears record of Jesus’ perfect sacrifice and His complete victory over death.
John 12: 28-29
- Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
29
The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
The words for today mistranslated in the bible in English:
Love
If the translators screwed up the seat of emotions so badly, then surely they got that quintessential Christian emotion, “love” right, right? Wrong. In modern western English, “love” is an emotional response to somebody you like, and the emotion can (and does) go away when you stop liking that person. In the Bible, the words most often translated “love” usually have nothing to do with emotional attachment. The love of God, represented in John 3:16, is not about a warm feeling in God’s (ahem) heart — what father in his right mind is going to get all warm and fuzzy seeing his son be tortured and killed when he doesn’t deserve it? — it’s a choice to take up our pain and sin upon Himself. We don’t understand the love of God because we keep trying to think of it as an emotional feeling. God does have that emotional feeling, but this isn’t it. God also commands us to show this same virtue to others that He shows to us, but it’s not an emotional response, not a feeling exuded by telling people you “love” them.
So what is it? The great “love chapter” in the Bible is 1Cor.13, and none of the modern translations accurately capture the meaning of the Greek word agaph (agape). As bad and outdated as it is, I think the King James Version comes closest with “charity”. Charity is what you do for other people who don’t deserve it, and who don’t do anything for you. It’s what you do because you are a good Christian and Christians do that kind of thing. It’s not an emotional response to the plight of the poor — oh, it might be — but usually it’s a thoughtful choice of how to spend a little of the bounty God gives every one of us, so to help out people less fortunate than we are. “Charity suffers long. Charity is not proud,…” This is not about your emotions, it’s about what you choose to do.
Husbands must choose to treat their wives with courtesy and self-giving sacrifice, just as Christ chose to do it for His church. The First great commandment is not about having a warm feeling in your (ahem) heart, it’s about choosing to obey God and make Him first in every part of your life — even when God does not apparently return the favor. The book of Job explores what it means to give God first place when He doesn’t seem to deserve it. Job passed the test. Can you? The Second great commandment is like the first, to give other people the same first-place consideration you naturally give yourself. You don’t have to like them to do the right thing for them. Whether God actually likes us, the Bible says very little about. Are you likeable by God? You can do something about that, if you want to. That’s what loving God is all about.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 13;1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Relationship
You won’t find the word “relationship” in most translations of the Bible. It’s not that the idea of “relationship” is not there (it is), but rather that the people who care most about accurate translation are what I call “Relationshipists” and they implicitly define the word differently from the dictionary. But they are honest translators, and to use the word to translate a Greek or Hebrew concept — even if accurately by one or another of its various meanings — would confuse either their constituency or else the general public (or both).
The dictionary defines “relationship” as a connection, often a family connection (“relative”). Real people mostly use the word to refer to a sexual liason, and “relative” or “relation” for other family connections. “Relationship” as a sexual liason is in 1Co.6:16, but none of the translations use the word there. “Relationship” as a family connection is all through the Bible, but individual kinship terms like “father” or “son” are always more precise. For more general notions of kinship, “kin” or “relative” is more accurate. “Relationship” as a connection other than family is in John 15:4 and elsewhere, but that is not what Relationshipists have in mind when they use the word. So the word is not in the Bible at all. That’s actually a good thing. The absence of this word in Bible translations accurately reflects the fact that the concept of “relationship” (whatever definition you prefer) is not what the Bible teaches.
1 Corinthians 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Closing prayer; Heavenly Father we thank you for all biblical numbers and thier meanings for our lives. We pray that all who read this lesson understand the importance of them. We pray that Jesus and the Holy Spirit help them understand. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.
For those who wish to become a child of Our Heavenly Father or wish to be stronger in his eyes, please say the following prayer below.
Dear Heavenly Father, I know I’m a sinner, and I ask for your forgiveness. I believe Jesus Christ is Your Son. I believe that He died for my sin and that you raised Him to life. I want to trust Him as my Savior and follow Him as Lord, from this day forward. Guide my life and help me to do your will. I pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.”
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