James Chapter 5 {Verses 1-6 - A Trip with a reversionist wealthy believer} 1~~Ah come on now {idiom}, you rich ones burst into weeping and continue screaming over your miseries coming upon you. {Note: Wealth here is used as one example of what both men and women relate to happiness. This is a rich believer in reversionism who has no capacity for happiness.} 2~~Your riches have become rotted {soul is rotted not the gold!}. And your outer garments have become moth-eaten. {Note: Details of life are not permanent. The only thing you can take with you to heaven is doctrine in your soul.} 3~~Your gold and silver have been tarnished. And the rust {venom of the soul} of them shall exist for evidence against you. And it shall eat your pieces of flesh   {anything that is your idea of happiness}. Like a fire . . . you have accumulated treasure for the crisis days {of catastrophe}. 4~~Behold, the wages of the workers who harvested your fields. The ones having been defrauded from the source of YOU . . . keep screaming. And the screams of the ones having harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of the Armies. {Note: The rich man in reversionism is stealing from his workers who maybe trusted him because he is a 'Christian'. And, the verse implies that when reversionists commit fraud on a great scale, God is ready to give punishment in terms of great national tragedy.} 5~~You have lived in self-indulgence and luxury on the earth. And you have been a sensual voluptuary. You have fattened your right lobes with pleasures . . . as in a day of slaughter {implies revolution - tragedy}. {Note: This is like fattening a cow . . . to get it ready for the slaughter house.} 6~~You have condemned the innocent and have murdered the just. And he does not oppose you. {Note: The victim here is not reacting against the rich reversionist - he knows the battle is the Lord's. Yet by holding back his wages the rich man may be condemning the innocent man and his family even to death - certainly to financial troubles. This paragraph implies that in reality the rich man here is destroying himself.} {Verses 7-8 What God can accomplish when you let Him give you Happiness - Solution to Reversionism} 7~~Have patience {allow doctrine to work} . . . therefore, members of the family of God . . . until the coming of the Lord. Behold {re-focus your attention} . . . the capitalist farmer waits with expectation for the valuable production of the land   {analogous to the fruits of doctrine in the soul} . . . constantly being patient over it until he has received the early   {believer progressing in early spiritual life} . . . and latter {in or near SuperGrace prosperity} rains. {Note: The Happiness of God in time is in the Super Grace life . . . the capacity to enjoy what God provides you in Grace.} 8~~Have patience . . . you all also have stability in your right lobes . . . because the coming of the Lord {rapture} has approached with the result that it keeps on drawing nearer.  9~~Stop criticizing against others of the same kind . . . members of the family of God . . . that you not be judged. Behold . . . the judge {the critic - God} stands in the past with the result that He keeps standing before the door. {Verses 10-11 is a Parenthetical clause} 10-11~~(Members of the family of God . . . receive an example of endurance in suffering and patience   {spending doctrine in time of adversity} . . . the prophets who have communicated doctrine in the name of the Lord. 11~~Behold . . . we consider happy/congratulate {makarizo} the ones having endured! You have heard . . . through bible teaching . . . of the endurance {patience} of Job and have seen the end from the Lord   {brought back to prosperity} because the Lord keeps on being very compassionate and merciful.) {Note: Makarizo means to count someone happy or to 'congratulate' them. In Greek congratulate means to recognize a person's happiness.} {Back to Verse 9 thought - He {Jesus} stands before the door knocking} 12~~And more important, before all things . . . my brethren . . . stop making lying promises fronted with an oath . . . neither by heaven {example: "As God is my witness"} . . . neither by the earth {I swear on my mother's grave} . . . neither by any other oath {I swear on a stack of bibles} . . . but be HONEST   {idiom - literally says 'let your yes be yes and your no, no'} . . . that you fall not under judgment. {Another Parenthetical Clause} 13~~(Is any among you {Super Grace types} suffering adversity? Keep offering prayer. Is anyone of you having a ball? Keep singing in the ecstasy of the moment with full possession of your mental capacity   {not in a drunken state}.) 14~~ Anyone among you sick? Suffering from hopeless disease? Let him call to himself the Pastor-teacher {presbuteros} of the church . . . and, having received medical therapy to no avail . . . let them {plural} begin to offer a prayer   {a specific prayer solely for the reversionist} over him in the name of the Lord. {Note: Their right pastor-teacher is the one whose authority they rejected in reversionism. The person in reversionism is so deep in that he is near the sin unto death. At this state, rebound no longer works and he can not pray for himself. He must go to the one he rejected for help.} {Note: Presbuteros in Greek is often translated 'elders'. It really means the top guy. The one in authority at the church. The reversionists 'right pastor-teacher' whose teaching he has rejected. In Greek it is in the plural because it matches the case of 'anyone among you' which is plural, but concept is one for each one.} 15~~And the prayer from the source of the doctrinal one {his right Pastor} shall deliver the hopelessly sick one   {reversionist is under sin unto death, then turns positive   by calling his Pastor} . . . and the Lord shall restore him to health   {and in so doing, recognizing the authority He gave the local   Pastor}. And if he has produced permanent sin - and he did - from his own free will - they shall be forgiven by Him. 16~~Therefore {repentant reversionist}, acknowledge the sin to another   {acknowledge the sin against the pastor-teacher who has been   victimized directly to him}. And {Pastor-teacher} offer prayer of behalf of the other . . . that you {repentant reversionist} may be healed. The prayer of a righteous believer has much, much power . . . WHEN IT IS OPERATIONAL. {Note: From versus 9 and 12, we can see here that 'the sin' is limited to the case of reversionism where the reversionist has committed verbal sins against his Right Pastor and has become sick. This is an exception to the rule where believer priests are to confess their own sins directly to God only - privacy of the priesthood.} {From I Kings Chapter 17-18 - example of National reversionism} 17~~Eliah . . . a human being . . . kept on being similar to us in feelings, circumstances, and pressures. And by means of prayer, he began to pray not to send rain {warning discipline} and it did not rain on the land {of Israel} for three years and six months. 18~~And he finished his prayer {started 3 1/2 years ago}, and the heaven gave rain, and the land germinated, sprouted, and produced her production {economic prosperity}. 19-20~~ My brethren {believers in the Lord Jesus} . . . if any one among you has been seduced and has wandered away from The doctrine - and a large number will - and someone turns him around {restores him} . . . 20~~ keep knowing that the one having turned him around from the delusion of his way shall deliver a soul from death {sin unto death} . . . and cover a large number of sins. ************************************************** Joshua_Sozo™ and Syndein ™ are the Trademarks of Syndein a California DBA of Kenneth Sidley & Associates, Inc., a California Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright© Syndein 1982-2010. All rights reserved. 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