ANTIOCH
You have your little Judea, your better Syria, but ahhhhhhhh Antioch. You've arrived. This is the Place. Beautiful Antioch. Twenty-one times, the New Testament says 'Antiahhhhhhoch'.
Who was here?
1. Barnabas, Cousin to John Mark, Mark's gospel, with Peter to the end. Barnabas took some of the oldest Scriptures to India.
2. Simeon, who was called Niger, This is the Gospel. This is the first Civil Rights Movement. This man took the Gospel to Alexandria.
3. Lucius of Cyrene, Simeon, probably traveled with Mr Libya. They are taking the Gospel to the Next Continent.
4. Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the Tetrarch You are "Absolutely" in trouble for running around with Christian infidels if you are a pal of Herod. This Herod is Herod Antipas. A lesser known Herod? Oh, noooo. This Herod is put on the throne by the census taking Emperor Augustus. Nephew of Caesar. King since 4 B.C. Married to his sister-in-law Herodias, this Herod is rather Touchy. One is in Danger, traveling with the Christ Disciples
Giving a whole new meaning to - "Men the Roman Empire is upset who are running around Proclaiming Jesus as God."
5. Saul. Believe me, they were not grubbing around in Antioch. Paul was one of the best educated at the Temple by Gamaliel - himself. Paul had the best credentials.
Later...
6. John - This is the first man adopted by the incredible Sacrifice of Jesus. He is now the son of Mary, Mother of God. Plenty of courage. John stayed to the last breath of Jesus Christ.
These tile Mosaics - are they found in Judea - yes, thanks for thinking of this - yes, they are found in Caiaphas - High Priest Home. "Worship no 'Image'".
Antioch tells us - Living was not just hand to mouth. Not desperate times and desperate measures to worship "Something". Telling us just like Paul's superior education. Peter's superior style of living and gracious house. Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch - not just the men who could squeak under the prosecution wire. Not just the outsiders. The Light of Jesus Christ was reaching across Impossible Borders and Boundaries. Not just Susanna, wife to Herod's Steward.
Antioch, northern Syria, near the Turkish border. 300 B.C., Antioch was a very important political and cultural center of the Hellenistic East and one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire.
Howard Crosby Butler, Princeton professor of Art and Archaeology and the founder of the School of Architecture, led a series of archaeological expeditions to Syria (1899-1900, 1904-5, and 1909). The collective aim was to record the remains of ancient buildings and settlements. The results of those expeditions were published in several volumes that remain standard research tools for the study of late antique architecture in Syria. Some of the buildings are from 200 A.D. He discovered a city blended from 200 A.D. to 500 A.D.
Although Antioch was mentioned in many literary sources, very little was known about the physical city until 1932, when a consortium of institutions led by Princeton University conducted the first of seven seasons of excavations that would eventually uncover a remarkable wealth of finds, expanding our knowledge of the metropolis and its culture. Despite the challenges posed by the fact that much of the ancient city had been buried by up to 10 meters of soil washed down from the slopes of Mount Silpios, which towers above the town at the east, the excavations there
and in the surrounding area we're able to uncover the remains of more than
80 buildings,
including two theaters,
six public baths,
a hippodrome,
and two major churches.
In addition to these public buildings, some of the porticoed streets for which Antioch was famous in antiquity, were unearthed, along with numerous residential structures.
Butler deemed this suburban residence a villa of a well-to-do family from nearby Bostra. The huge residence, measuring ca. 80 x 60 meters in plan, was later transformed into a village. Symmetrically organized around a central courtyard, the entire complex, including the residential wing, was enclosed by a high stone wall. The focus of the residential wing was a large (10 x 10 meters) two-story room, internally divided by a large arch resting on massive engaged piers. Probably introduced for structural reasons, internal transversal arches of this type became ubiquitous features of residential buildings in Syria.
Luke 9:57-62
As they were going along the road, someone said to Him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
59 To another He said, “Follow me.”
But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
60 And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
61 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”
62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Who else went to Antioch? If you looked late in Jerome's life for him in Rome
- you would have just missed him. He retired young to ... Antioch! Ahhh, Beautiful Antioch.
St. Jerome.
Jerome feast day of 30 September, c. 342 – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Catholic priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.
Jerome is well known, for 1,700 years, for his translation of the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate and his commentaries on ..... the whole Bible. Jerome created a translation of the Old Testament based on a Hebrew version, rather than the Septuagint, the miraculous work from memory of scholars.
Jerome's list of writings is extensive. Jerome wrote polemical and historical essays, always from a Christian perspective. Not entirely out of the ordinary, as this was the Beginning of Christianity approval.
Jerome was known for his teachings on Christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centers such as Rome. Often, he focused his attention on the lives of women and identified how a woman devoted to Jesus should live her life! Jerome.... loved friends, fellowship and women. He had close patron relationships with several prominent female ascetics who were members of affluent senatorial families.
Due to his work, Jerome is recognized as a saint and Doctor of the Church by the Catholic Church, and as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Church, and the Anglican Communion. And he retired rather young and went to.... Antioch.
Ahhhhhhh, LORD!
Matthew 22:29
Jesus answered and said unto them,
“Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. When we quote Scripture, it is important to be sincere. Jesus, in Luke 9, told these men not to fulfill the path seemingly God had given them. David, and his men, ate the bread of show bread from the Temple, for hunger. Jesus and His Disciples ate grain from the field as they walked, on a Sabbath.
People say today, find your truth. Not Biblical. I know my step-grandfather, as an Episcopalian Priest, angered his family when he would announce something like taking another job, that God had told him. One of the things Scripture would tell us about.
We are told that Scripture is living and active - by the Lord Himself. As we read Scripture with open hearts, we find new verses come alive to us. And in the same way, we should know all the Scriptures to not be judgmental. Or uninformed to say, do what you think is right, in the Book of Judges we find chaos because, "each man decided for himself what was right."
2 Kings 22 is about King Josiah. Judah had fallen so far from God, when Josiah decided the Temple was not even maintained. As they cleaned the Temple, they discovered the Book of the Law. And just as Jerome cared for women, they discovered the Book of the Law and needed someone to interpret this. They had to search up someone with prophetic ability.
2 Kings 22: 14, 15 - 18-20
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her. 15 And she said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me”
Continues to
18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard, 19 because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. 20 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king.
Knowing the Scriptures is God of Love. Not just all about just knowing a phrase and gluing it like a phylactery to one's forehead. In the Book of Acts, Philip is asked to explain Scripture. And he does with a baptism as well. And then Philip is parted from the new believer. God intends the new believer to act upon the Word of God and to do like Elijah and hear the voice of God in his heart.
To discern God's will, and to have peace. The father, seeking healing for his son, cried out to Jesus Himself, "Help me, I have faith, help me to have more."
Abba, Father,
We pray as the Gulf and oceans cool,
the weather will come to us
in relief and gently.
And as we deal with one another.
Gently and to ask respect
and brotherly love.
Bless this Nation,
and worldwide,
to regain
Jesus and know
the Scriptures
and His Love.
Jesus is the Lord
and is working,
we ask in this prayer,
in the Highest
Name of Jesus
Amen.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves †
Thanks be unto the Lord
and His Blessing
to all who Love Him
bringing
more Heaven to earth
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