Altar. In NT theology the equivalent of the Cross. Both are raising devices upon which a sacrifice was bound and slaughtered for the redemption of the offeror. On the Day of Atonement, this sacrifice was made for the whole of the congregation of Israel. On crucifixion day, it is performed by God the Father for the whole world on the sacrifice of His Son. The meaning of both devices of death is God's Word for this future agent of redemptive justice which is historically fulfilled, hence, messianic prophecy of Jesus Messiah ...

Bible. Revelation from personal Hebrew God of His power, nature and redemptive plan for mankind. The entirety of the document as a concept is apprehended first through its leading form of revelation, which is the scriptural thematic stream of messianic prophecy, taken as the informational entity of its subject, Jesus of Nazareth, Messiah. The document source and this specific subject content are given by God to man for the attraction of man's love of demonstrated truth and his salvation through the belief in its historical reality. The free gift of salvation is the revelation. The free mortal act that goes to salvation is faith in that free gift. Only through this epistemic pathway can a saving faith in the God of Truth be considered "true." ...

Passing by Nehushtan INTRODUCTION I have composed a basic Bible dictionary to demonstrate its prophecentric nature. It is by this demonstration of its consistency that it will become clear why its central theme must radically change exegetics and theology. If it is possible to show a single, unified, and consistent theme of Scripture that must also incorrigibly be held synonymous with Christ Himself, that theme being also that from which doctrine comes, rather than a dependent product of theology, then it is this prophecy from which any notion of God, and by extension, our salvation, directly comes ...

soma, sarx. The body with its parts is a comprehensive, dynamic, articulated biblical symbol in the NT of which there are many challenges.[1] Other than its explicit reference to the church (Rom 12:5; 1Co 12:12, 27; Eph 4:12), other uses are clearly for the intention of contrasting the Old Testament promise to the New Testament fulfillments in Christ, the completion of prophecy, as in Colossians 2:17: “Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.” ...

Body of Sin. (Rom 6:6). If the body is the Prophetic Word, can it be said of sin? In a sense, yes, but not in the way the reader might imagine. The Word does not provide a perfect vision of transcendence, only an adequate one, just as the body is an adequate analog of the resurrection body ...

Broken (body). (1 Co 11:24). It is interesting that Christ in the Passover implies but never states that the breaking of bread is the prophetic breaking of His body and of messianic prophecy itself. It is for Paul to give this interpretation. Christ says that the Passover bread is His body, but only Paul says it represents the broken body of Christ fulfilled, in 1 Co 11:24 ...

Cast into Hell (body). Mt 5:29–30; 18:8–9; Mark 9:45–47. “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.” The key to this application is in the definition of “offend” (skandalizw, entrap, stumble, entice to sin) ...

Christian. When all things are thought common, or of prosaic origin,  when they are classified and compared it can only be by their common traits. If the whole of religion is thought without an uncommon, demonstrated supernatural proof of its claims, then "Christian" and "Christianity" are only those common forms of religious practices and members among and the equal to other world religions. If the members of Christianity operate also on this presumption of the opacity of its faith, it is expected that the first points of contact with the concepts "Christian" and "Christianity" would be conceived on common and universal standards as well. " Christian" would be, therefore, "a person who believes in Jesus the Son of God," and "a religion in which a central practice is the communion of the blood of the New Covenant," since these topographically only describe features unique to a common Christian religion. Nothing in these descriptions need carry a connotation of faith and a practice rooted in remembrance of a sharply uncommon historical proof of a transcendent claim. But "Christian" is rooted in the word "Messiah," and Messiah is a prophetic name of one predicted and fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth, making, if true, "Christian," despite how it is used, a very uncommon name for a person of a faith in a supernatural prophecy and a supernatural fulfillment in proof of the nature and existence of its God ...

Defiled (body). Christ, starting in Mark 7:15, gives enigmatic teaching that has confused the church for almost its entire history, that what goes out of a man defiles him, not what goes into him. This defiled concept is not used by Christ as a defiling of the body, but it does have a significant function in contrasting what is already defiled and can't be changed,  by what it means to be truly defiled but can be changed. Then his signal to look for a deeper meaning than the one that He will not give: "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear." What does this mean? ...

Defiled by the Tongue. See: Defiled (Jas 3:6). As above, the tongue speaks the words of the prophets, making God’s prophecies accessible audibly to the world. It is by this primary means, however, that the body of the prophetic scriptures is defiled in one’s spirit and made of no effect.[1] ...

(Mat 10:14, Mar 6:11, Luke 9:5, and Acts 13:51). The dust of the heathen world was considered defiled, unlike the dust of the Promised Land. To shake the dust off one’s feet was a sign that the Apostle regarded those people who refused the Prophetic Word of Jesus Messiah are likewise defiled and unworthy of further instruction. They are cursed and so is their land. The import for the foot implies that these people are incapable of pleasing God through a life of works if not first through the teaching of prophetic wisdom embodied and fulfilled in Christ ...

Ear, ears. οὖς, אֹזֶן. Key to this word is the phrase by Jesus "he who has an ear, let him hear" (Mat 11:15; 13:9,43; Mark 4:9, 23; 7:16; Luke 8:8; 14:35; Rev 2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22; 13:9). The Morrish Bible Dictionary states it means that "spiritual discernment was needed to catch the meaning of what was uttered." This fact is not in question, but only this remains to be asked: a spiritual discernment of what, since it is assumed that a certain kind of scriptural truth is implied ...

Faith. In the Greek pistis. In Strongs "(from 3982/peithô, "persuade, be persuaded") – properly, persuasion (be persuaded, come to trust); faith." Faith is a personal act of the spirit of man triggered by the presentation, moral handling and resulting trust (persuasion, conviction) in a supernatural action from the personal Spirit of God. It is specifically motivated by a conviction of the truth from Messianic Prophecy of Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah. Not to be confused with a trust based upon uninformed emotion and naivete of spiritual things, it is an action and state of the spirit as a specific effect of exposure to the truth of the messianic, prophetic revelation alone ...

Feet. poús, básis, katapatéō, pezēi: Using Truth and Method without H.G. Gadamer's subjectivity of "truth," we ask not only what this symbol meant to the Hebrews, but how God intended it used to say something about the PW, which is given to all ages and peoples. The feet are the means by which the prophetic word is carried in the world by its fulfillment, its contact with the ground of the world.  This is quite different from conventional applications ...

Feet of the Evangelist. (Romans 10:15). Here Isaiah 52:7 is quoted: Isaiah 52:7 (KJV) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! ...

Fell at, Worshiped at, Held (feet). (Mat 15:30, 18:29, 28:9, Mark 5:22, Mr 7:25, Luke 17:16, 8:41, John 11;32, Acts 10:25, Rev 1:17, Rev 3:9, Rev 19:10, 22:8). The fulfillments of Christ are so used, held, and worshiped (treated as of value, worthy). The feet are the connection between the scriptures and the world, the Old Testament promise and the historical fulfillments of Christ who satisfied the law and prophets. These feet are the means of bringing that Word to the people ...

Hands, χείρ, זְרוֹעַ To the Hebrews the hand was considered the wrist (Gen 24:22,30,47; Eze 16:11; 23:42) and fingers (Gen 41:42). Standard Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias typically use such words as “authority,” “power,” and “blessing” to carry the primarily signification of the hand when the laying on of hands is performed. These meanings are of course prosaisms, as has been discussed. The word used in the New Testament, since it is a more specialized prophetic text, powerfully and consistently carries a specialized prophetic connection ...

Head. κεφαλή, רֹאשׁ. In the OT the word is from "an unused root meaning to shake." Used in both the OT and NT for the part of the body (Mat 6:7, Lev 8:12), and to indicate chief or captain, the leadership of governments and principalities, of power and authority (Col 2:10, Isa 7:8). It carries an implied signification of “top,” "identity," “ultimate,” or “superior,”  especially for Christ himself (1 co 11:3, 1 co 11:7, Eph 1:21-22, Col 1:18, Col 2:10). Biblically, however, "head" is never directly implicated in thinking, planning, or reason as in the modern age.[1] Biblically, “head,” is to be generally taken as a superior or dominating carnal or spiritual place of the sovereignty of the body, a synecdoche for the whole of the man’s position and power, rather than a superior or dominating spiritual/mental action. Most significantly, κεφαλή is used in the messianic prophecy of Psalms 118:22,23, Acts 4:11, Luke 20:17, Mark 12:10 and Matthew 21:42:  Matthew 21:42 (KJV) Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Being the most crucial instance of the word to the whole of the NT revelation of the OT, we may infer that "head" has a superior signification of the ultimate spiritual authority of Messiah Jesus and His Prophetic Word of demonstration: the only single part of the whole of theology which cold be said holding the rest together, but is rejected because of its seemingly small quantitive and qualitative appearance. [1] “The connotations of the word "heart" in 1st-century use are also not the same in our modern age. For us, the heart is related to affective life. From his heart, man loves or hates, desires or fears. The heart has no part in the intellectual life. The Hebrew uses the heart to indicate a wider range of meaning, including sentiments, but also memories, thoughts, reasoning, and planning.” (Leon-Dufor 1967). Also see (Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible 1963), (McKenzie 1965) ...

Healed (feet). (Acts 3:7, et. al.). The context is  conversion by prophetic knowledge of the Messiah as an effect of its evangelism: "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." The "name of Jesus Christ" is the name of God, which is the name that promises and fulfills. This is identical to our use of one being "a man of his word." The symbol of spiritual salvation by this Word is miraculous healing of the body, which is a figure for the healing of the spiritual body through faith. The leaping and joy of this healing in the Temple and praising God is by the word that Peter then proclaims in Acts 3:18: “But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.” The physically healed need not have known this Word for this to be a symbol of faith in that Word. It is meant to represent the prophetic gospel, and in man's spirit its hearing, its righteous and honest judgment, its acceptance, and its trust as True ...

Jesus. Literally, "Yahweh saves." This name is a prophetic name, fulfilled on the advent of Jesus of Nazareth. Before his coming, "Yahweh saves" is eschatological, salvation promised and set for the future by his agent of salvation. "Messiah," the anointed, is the ultimate King of the people of salvation, again a sharply prophetic title, thus, "Jesus Christ," or "Jesus Messiah." The designation of this Messiah which will come to save is given explicitly and by implication in the OT and NT as "the Word of God," since he represents God's faithfulness to his promise to save. This crystallized in the Targumic period, where the word memra is used liberally in the place fo God's person and his actions. For example, in the Jerusalem Targum of Genesis 1:27, "And the Word of the Lord created man in His likeness." In Targum Onkelos of Genesis 3:8: "And they heard the voice of the Word of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening of the day." In the New Testament, John explicitly states in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." "Word of God, the informational equivalent of Jesus Messiah, is consistently given as Messianic Prophecy itself. For example in Luke 3:2: ..."the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness." Then the Word is speciated: Luke 3:4-6 (KJV) As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. Salvation is then set not only on faith in the Person of this Word but the Father's Word of prescience and fulfillment itself ...