This amazing Papyrus is HEBREWS 5
Dated Late First or Early Second Century
Owned today by the University of Michigan
Papyrus 46 is a collection of 104 pages of early Scripture from the late first or early second century - depending on the way it's punctuated. The collection, shown Hebrews 5 above, has similarities to other Scripture the reader wanted to be close to.
Hebrews 5:1-4
1 Thessalonians 2
3 For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. 4 On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. 5 You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed — God is our witness. 6 We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority. 7 Instead, we were like young children among you.
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God knew when He allowed Aaron into the Holy of Holies, Aaron's purpose to visit the Seat of Mercy with blood. The Ark of the Covenant is actually supposed to be the seat God sits on. His Throne on earth. Welcome to sit on His Throne in the Temple.
Aaron comes in and puts blood for sins all over the place. God is acknowledging - what we say about mankind. About 'people'. God is saying this: Tell the kids I love them - God.
We grow old when we see our children don't need us. They move on as the Bible says they are entitled to. We realize we had our day. The Jews did not do this - Christians do.
God sent Jesus to earth - it was the plan since Genesis 1 - The Holy Spirit abides on the waters of Creation while loving us and wanting to be closer. God's Good Son - leaves Heaven to bring us to God. And Jesus' gift to God - a new Heaven and a new earth. Man in - Dark out. The Light shines and the dark has not overcome.
13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.
14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches
Papyrus 46 was entrusted to someone who took great care of the 104 Chapters of Scripture Papyrus. God entrusted that person wisely. And in this amazing care, 1,800-year-old Scripture is in flawless condition for this age. Teaching us - Scripture goes back to the time of Jesus' natural lifespan.
Enabling us to see this as a seamlessly woven robe in time sequence.
A Word so true - we would reach for His hem - to be made whole.
Seamless Scripture helps us to recall what the Prophet Joel told us in Chapter 3.
We are all headed to God's Mansion of many rooms. Multitudes and multitudes will arrive where every knee will bow to Jesus Christ - God's Son.
We will be asked how are you caring for what is entrusted to you.
We would want to do what Jesus teaches us.
We all want God to entrust us!
What we long to hear Father God say is:
"Beloved, Child, Well done! I have run to meet you!!! Welcome Home!"