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Saturday, July 29 2006
by Wayne Blank
"He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth"
The King James Version uses Sabaoth twice in the New Testament in referring to "The Lord of Sabaoth" (some translations of the Scriptures use "Sabaoth" in these verses whereas others use "hosts"):
"For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will The Lord make upon the earth. And as Esaias said before, Except The Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha" (Romans 9:28-29 KJV)"Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of The Lord of Sabaoth." (James 5:4 KJV)
The basis of the New Testament usage of the word Sabaoth is its military origin in the Old Testament, translated in these examples as "The Lord of hosts":
"Then said David [see King David] to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in The Name of The Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.""Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the Ark of God, whose name is called by The Name of The Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims [see The Mercy Seat]" (2 Samuel 6:1-2 KJV)
"Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory" (Psalm 24:8-10 KJV)
"God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee?" (Psalm 89:7-8 KJV)
The difference between The Lord's great military power and man's war capabilities however is that The Lord's armies are coming to end war forever (see the Fact Finder question below).
"The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Come, behold the works of The Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire." (Psalm 46:7-9 KJV)
Fact Finder: Why will the meaning of the term "The Lord of Sabaoth" as explained above very much apply to Jesus Christ at His return?
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Today's Word
The Holy Bible was primarily written in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. Today's Word examines the pronunciation and literal meaning of one of those actual words of the Holy Scriptures and how it is usually translated into English-language Bibles.
The Hebrew word pronounced mahk-an-eh means encampment. It is most often translated for use in English language Bibles as camp, host or company.
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This Day In History, July 29
1030: Olaf II was killed at the battle of Stiklestad while attempting to recover his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1565: Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin, Henry Stuart.
1588: The Spanish Armada of about 125 ships sent by Philip II to try to invade England for the Pope was defeated by an English fleet under Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake. Over the next month what was left of the armada was pursued along the North Sea and out into the Atlantic.
1715: 10 Spanish treasure galleons were sunk off the Florida coast by a hurricane.
1848: Hopes of a nationalist uprising in Ireland were dashed when an insurrection at Tipperary led by William Smith O'Brien failed.
1900: King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated at Monza by anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1914: Austria-Hungary bombarded Belgrade, Serbia; the first military action of the First World War.
1930: The airship R100 set out on its first passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada.
1947: 3 Jewish resistance fighters were hung by the British for an attack on the Acre prison which freed 251 prisoners; in response, Jewish resistance leader Menachem Begin (a future prime minister of Israel) ordered the hanging of 2 British hostages, army sergeants Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice, the same day. The action set off anti-Jewish riots across Britain, the first in Britain since the 13th century.
1948: The first Olympic Games after World War II opened in London at Wembley Stadium.
1958: NASA was established.
1967: During the Vietnam War, the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal was damaged by fire, killing 130.
1968: Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), declared that any artificial forms of birth control were prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church.
1993: The Israeli Supreme Court cleared John Demjanjuk of war crimes after hearing evidence that he was known as "Ivan the Terrible" at prison camps.
1996: China carried out a nuclear explosion at its Lop Nor nuclear testing ground. It measured 4.3 on the Richter scale.
