I WILL OBEY, REGARDLESS OF MY DISBELIEF
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(The brightness of our
revelations depend upon the correctness of our doctrines, our building blocks)
(God is Thought, God is Love, God is a Spirit – Eccl 12:7)
(1
Sam 15:22) And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD [i.e., obeying the Bible]?
Behold, to obey is better
than sacrifice, and to
hearken [Heb: hear, give heed, regard] than the fat [the most desirable sweetest part] of [sacrificed] rams.
THE PROPHECY (Luke 5:1-11)
(Luke 5:1,2) And it came to pass, that, as the people
pressed upon him [Jesus] to hear the word [Gk: logos] [John 1:14] of God, he stood by the lake of
Gennesaret [Heb: harp-shaped]
[another name for the sea of Galilee],
And saw two ships [1] standing by the lake [“standing” inactive, without the fishermen
inside (like closed books standing on a shelf)]: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets [2].
1. Commentary: “two ships” = two containers, two cargo vessels, symbolizing the
Old Testament and the New Testament, both supported (empowered) by the Holy
Spirit who is the water of the word of God; two salvation ships created
and employed by God to transport
cargo [a type and shadow of us] to
Heaven. However, the Bible indicates that the Old Testament ship (the
synagogue, the first Testament) is full and waiting (Heb 11:39,40) while the
New Testament ship (the church, the last Testament) is rapidly filling.
a. (Heb
11:39,40) And these all [the Old Testament heroes of faith], having obtained a good report
through faith, received not the
promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made
perfect [Gk: complete].
b. (Mat
20:16) So the
last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
[Mark 10:31; Luke 13:30]
2. Commentary: “washing their nets” = getting rid of,
casting away the unwanted debris. Cleansing
their nets, and repairing (correcting,
stitching up, sewing up, healing) tears in their doctrines (and tears in their
hearts), preparing (perfecting) themselves through the correction of their
doctrines to go fishing, rather like
Elijah’s school for “the sons of the prophets” (2 Kings 2:3-15), and exactly like our Rescue
a. (Mat 13:47,48) Again, the
kingdom of heaven is like unto a
net [the composite doctrines of the
word of God (Isa 28:9-13)], that was cast into the sea [of humanity], and gathered
of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels,
but cast the bad [Gk: rotten,
worthless: corrupt] away.
SPEAKING TO THE POTENTIAL
SHEEP
(Luke
5:3)
And he [Jesus Christ] entered into [as spirits enter into people (Mark 4:19)] one of the ships [the Old Testament, activating the heretofore inactive logos] [1], which was Simon's [Heb: hearing], and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land
[or “from the dry,” indicating an
absence of water which is the Holy Spirit]. And he sat down, and taught the people [who were attentively standing on the shore (dry land) the doctrines
of God] out of the ship [which was supported (empowered) by the
water of the Holy Spirit].
1. (Heb 9:16) For where a testament [Gk: contract: covenant] is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator [and Jesus Christ “the testator” was then still alive on this earth].
SPEAKING TO THE SHEPHERDS
(Luke 5:4-6) Now when he had left [Gk: stopped] speaking, he said unto
Simon, Launch out [Gk: thrust out] [note the implicit
effort that is required to obey this command] into the
deep [Gk: profundity, fig, mystery: deepness, deep things, depth], and let down your nets [doctrines,
i.e., Acts 2:38; Rom 10:9,10] for a draught [Gk: a catch (of fish)]. And Simon answering said
unto him, Master [Gk: teacher], we have toiled [Gk: to feel fatigue, labored] all the night, and have taken nothing [Simon responded with a complaint, essentially saying: “I am an
experienced fisherman and know more about this than you do.”]: nevertheless [i.e., in spite of my
serious disagreement, and my pending sacrifice (i.e., his labor)] at thy word [Gk: rhema]
[i.e., Simon had received a little rhema] I will let
down the net [i.e., I will obey,
regardless of my great disbelief] [“to obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Sam 15:22)]. And when they had this
done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake
[Gk: to tear asunder: brake /// to
sunder (by separation)] [Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical
Words: to burst asunder] [Why? Answer: disobedience. How?]. [1]
1. Commentary: “I will let down the net” = the
KJV, the original 1611 KJV, and NKJV have rendered correctly what Simon decided
to be let down as “the net” whereas the Amplified Bible, NAS,
NIV and The Living Bible have rendered Simon’s decision incorrectly as “the nets” and therefore their
readers are completely blocked from understanding the uppermost crowning
pinnacle of this prophecy and are led off on a godless bunny trail by all,
except the NKJV, by suggesting that their nets (first error) were in the process of breaking
(second error) rather than their net broke (past tense,
it happened). However, even the NKJV which first rendered Simon’s utterance
correctly as “net” thereafter joined
the herd on this bunny trail by rendering “and
their net was braking” (NKJV verse 6). Although humanly quite reasonable,
God didn’t say that! God said “and their net brake” (Vine’s Dictionary: burst asunder) teaching that
godly success comes from obedience to the Word, and not from partial obedience. King Saul tried partial obedience to God and look where
that got him, a very unhappy disgraced
suicide.
NOTABLE PROPHECY PRESENTLY
OBSERVABLE TO SAINTS
BUT SINKING OUT OF SIGHT TO
UNSAVED PEOPLES
(Luke
5:7) And they beckoned unto their
partners [James and John], which were in the other ship [a type and shadow of the New Testament], that they should come and help them. And
they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink [out of sight, into faith; a wonderful
metaphor for totally changing environments]. [1]
1. Commentary: prophecy: both the vessels of the
Old Testament (already filled) and of the New Testament (filling) were filled with what? Answer: fish
(us, saints), symbolizing all
imputed (Heb: esteemed, regarded)
(Gk: esteemed, reckoned) for
righteousness Old Testament and New Testament saved souls that are to be inexorably drawn to Heaven when both ships are completely full and sink
completely out of sight (“For we walk by faith, not by sight:” (2 Cor 5:7).
The “sinking process” is a continuous miracle
that has been happening since 1972 when the Supreme Court exorcised God out of sight in the public
school system of
(Luke
5:8-11)
When Simon Peter saw it [Gk:
understood] [i.e., realized the
point of what had just happened and why it had happened],
he fell down [Gk: to prostrate
oneself] at Jesus' knees [in the position of “humbled obedience”], saying, Depart from me; for I am a
sinful man, O Lord [Simon now
understood that the cause of his separation from God was his disobedience
(sinfulness)]. For he was
astonished [Gk: dumbfounded, X amazed,
wonder], and all that were with him,
at the draught of the fishes which they had taken [much like the miracle of caught fishes
currently occurring at our Rescue
Amen