Hey, can I get, can I show you guys something that's pretty funny, but this is going back
to what I was saying about the whole gather and assembly thing.
You know, Matthew 6 26 says, behold the fowls of the air for they sow not, neither
do they reap nor gather into barns.
And in Greek, it says, so it was just like, you know, according to that logic,
you know, the the fowls are Jews, you know, because they're the fowls are not in synagogue.
They're synagoguing into the barns.
Yeah, because basically, and just to explain what Pastor Mahia is talking about here is
that in James, it says if they're come unto your assembly, a man with a gold ring
and goodly apparel, and people will try to say that it should say if they come into
your synagogue, it's like a Hebrew roots, Judaizing thing.
And so Pastor Mahia is pointing out the fact that that word synago is used just about
birds gathering.
It's not it's not just always meaning synagogue.
But this is the danger of people going back to the Greek when they don't know Greek.
If a word looks like something, they just think that that must be what it means.
Like, oh, that looks like synagogue.
Oh, you know, when I look at this world that but but here's an example I like to
use to show how stupid that is, is the example of in Jude when they go after
strange flesh.
OK, the word for strange is hetero.
Yeah, they're going after hetero sarx.
I mean, it's like that just shows the stupidity of thinking that you can just look
at a Greek word, use your understanding of an English word that comes from it.
You could even get the opposite meaning there.
Yeah, certainly.
We're going after hetero stuff.
Yeah, because like hetero means like other a lot of times they're like, it means
different, other and strange, you know.
So that's that's an example or here's an example from the Hebrew.
You know, when God says that he's going to make of Abraham a great nation, he
basically says he's going to make him a great goi because the word goi means
nation.
So define irony.
Abraham's going to be made into a great goi.
Goiim is the Hebrew word for nations.
It's often translated Gentiles.
You'll see that nations and Gentiles are often used interchangeably in scripture.
And so when we hear the English word goiim or goi, not that it's English, but you
know what I mean?
Yeah, listen, they talk about the goiim.
You know, we would think that that's just for sure, like a non Jew, but really goi
just means nation.
So you have the nation of Israel because goi is nation.
Yeah, you see, those are called false friends when you think you know what a
word means, because it sounds like so like in Spanish, like, what does
effectivo mean?
Effectivo is money.
It's cash.
So but cash, right?
It's specifically cash.
Yeah, effectivo is actual cash.
But basically, like, like effective, you would just think that only means
effective or like embarazada.
Yeah, you're pregnant, but it sounds like you're being embarrassed or
something.
Yeah.
Like another one, like in German, there's a word gift.
Gift.
Gift means poison.
Oh, man.
So you might see words like that and think you know what they mean.
But they they mean something different.
Yeah.
So it's the same way in Greek, you know, you could see things in Greek.
And like, for example, you know, you could see Hades and think like, Oh, I know
what Hades is, because you you might have an English understanding of Hades.
But but in Scripture, Hades is being used to refer to hell.
And so the the King James is right to say hell.
You know, oh, but the Greek says Hades.
Yeah, but it's not the English word Hades.
It's the Greek word Hades.
Okay, yeah.
How is it being used in the New Testament?
Or, you know, there are a lot of just funny things when you're reading in
Greek, like, like the word for naked is gimnos, which gimnos is where we get
our word like gymnastics, because the Greeks would exercise naked.
So that's, you know, it's weird how words evolve like that, where we get
that word, or like one of my favorite words in the whole New Testament.
It's only used one time in the in the New Testament is where where Jesus
says, neither be ye of a doubtful mind.
And in Greek, when he says don't be of a doubtful mind, he says, I believe
it's me, media or recess that like, like, and that's where we get like
meteorology, like, is to be like, of a doubtful mind, and I'm thinking to
myself, like, is that why I guess that's why the weatherman gets it
wrong. Like, like, you know, when you see a word like that, media
reasons, it doesn't have anything to do with meteors.
You know, it's telling you not to be of a doubtful mind.
Yeah, it's like, because sometimes when when words come from Greek
and English, they can change and then people will read it backward.
Like, for example, when Rick Warren said like, Oh, if you go back to the
Greek, when it says we're God's workmanship, it actually says we're
God's poem.
Just because the word for workmanship sounds like poem in English.
He thinks like, oh, look, it looks like poem.
Yeah, we're God's poem.
So this is the this is the danger of going back to the Greek when you
don't even know Greek and you're just looking at what words look like.
Oh, that sounds like this English word.
And then it's oh, that sounds like synagogue.
So that must be a synagogue.
Right. You know, right.
Yeah. What was that one word?
Do you remember? It's in.
In first in first Timothy, Chapter three, it's what's the Greek word
that it used? It used it for like filthy lucre, but it was like
escrows or something like that.
Yeah. Escrow Curdia is like greedy of being greedy of filthy
lucre. Yeah, gross is the filthy part.
It's like filthy gain or Yeah.
And like in Spanish, you would say like for something that's
filthy, you would say it's Oscar also.
Yeah, that's so that's that's a Spanish word that that evolved
from a Greek word.
In this case, it kind of means a similar thing because isn't
Oscar also like disgusting?
Yeah, or Yeah, filthy, disgusting.
Yeah. So so so in that case, in that case, it's actually, you
know, fairly accurate. But sometimes when words come over,
they, they change it being like, let me give you an
example. Like, how about the Greek word asbestos? Okay,
which was where we get asbestos. Right. So if you're
reading the Greek New Testament, when he talks about
unquenchable fire, in Mark chapter nine, it's topirito
asbeston. So it's the unquenchable is, is asbestos.
But but think about what do we mean, when we talk about
asbestos, it's the exact opposite. Because in English,
asbestos is something that doesn't burn.
And in the Greek New Testament, asbestos means you can't stop
it from burning. You see what I mean? Right. So you know, if
you were just some bozo, who's gonna go back to the Greek,
you're like, well, you know, when the Bible talks about
unquenchable fire, if you actually look it up in the
Greek, it's actually asbestos. So you know, it's
actually not. You see what I'm saying? Yeah.
And even in English is sometimes like that, you know,
like, suffer the little children, obviously, doesn't
mean like to make them suffer. So allow them, you
know,
yeah, or think about the word fast. Like fast can either
mean you're moving quickly, or it can mean you're not moving
at all, like buying them fast. Fasten your seatbelt. So
we're about to work. What's that?
Like the word fly or flight, sometimes it's talking about
fleeing. And people, people, like, wait, wait, your flight
be not in the winter to like, hey, we're talking about
airplanes back.
It's a prophecy prophetic in the end. That's right. But that
goes, that's the danger of people who don't know
Greek, who want to tell you what the Greek says.
They don't know the language. And look, folks, you
don't need to learn Greek, you don't need to learn
Hebrew, you've got the King James Version. And look, I
would never be down on someone for not knowing
Greek or talk down to them or act like they don't
know the Bible. Because you can fully know the
Bible. If you just have a King James Bible, you
could serve God your whole life with that. And
you're not lacking anything. You are thoroughly
furnished onto all good works. But just don't
tell us what the Greek says. Just shut up about
it. If you haven't studied.
Yeah, I mean, it's that simple. Like, it's okay
not to know Greek. Just shut up about it. If
you don't know about it, though, and don't try
to tell us, oh, well, actually, the King James
translated this wrong, the Greek really says
this, and you don't even know the alphabet in
Greek. It's absurd, you know, telling you to
learn Greek, but don't criticize the King James
and tell us what the Greek says. When you
literally don't even know the alphabet, you
literally, you know, haven't even read the text
one time, and you're going to tell us what it
means. It's stupid. Like, like, and there was a
guy today saying to me like, Well, I studied
Greek in Bible college, I in fact, I can almost
sight read it.
Like in the King James, you know, gets all this
stuff wrong. And I'm thinking to myself, so you
have 54 scholars who translate the King James
who are all experts in Greek experts, they
could pick up the Iliad and the Odyssey, they
can pick up Sophocles, and they can pick up
the Septuagint, the New Testament, and they can
sight read all of it. You can almost sight
read one book almost. But you know more than
them. Well, did it wasn't James White, like
appalled that you claim that you've read the
Greek New Testament cover to cover and he was
just like, he thought that was so ridiculous
because he felt like no one's ever done
like this way. He said, he's like, he's
claiming a really high level of knowledge.
Because I said I said I'd read it cover to
cover twice. He's like, he's claiming a really
high level. You know, folks, something's wrong
when people think they're reading the Greek
New Testament twice is a high level, not a high
level, folks. Because a high level would be to
read it many, many times and to read lots of
other Greek literature and to read the
Septuagint cover to cover. That's a high
level. Okay, reading the Greek New Testament
twice. That's a beginner. Okay. Yeah. Right.
But to these guys, that shows you how
unqualified they are, that they think reading
it cover to cover once or twice is like
they've arrived or something. Yeah. Yeah. And
I've read it once and I'm going through it
the second time, but I do not feel like an
expert on the subject. You know, it's like one
that now I'm reading it the second time. And
I'm like, I feel like I'm not completely lost,
you know, like going through it. And I'm like,
understanding more and all that. But to think,
reading it once or twice that you're just
like, all right, time to go translated Bible
from the Greek. Like that would be ridiculous
to think of something like that. It almost
sounds like he's like, he's never even read
it. Cover to cover, you know? Yeah, I
wouldn't be surprised.