Spirit / Soul / Body

In this short study we are looking at the terms spirit and soul which have commonly been used
interchangeably.

Spirit / Soul / Body

 1Th 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Th 5:24 He who calls you [is] faithful, who also will do [it].

Taken from The Blue Letter Bible online the word “spirit” occurs 576 times in 523 verses, and “soul” occurs 322 times in 302 verses, and body 224 times in 196 verses in the NKJV. Now the words “spirit AND soul” occurs in 7 verses in the NKJV together.

Here is a short study on “spirit and soul”

1Sa 1:15 But Hannah answered and said, "No, my lord, I [am] a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor intoxicating drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD

Job 7:11 "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Isa 26:9 With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments [are] in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness

Isa 42:1 "Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One [in whom] My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

Hbr 4:12 For the word of God [is] living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Psa 31:5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Psa 31:6 I have hated those who regard useless idols; But I trust in the LORD.
Psa 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, For You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities

Since 1Sa 1:15 was used I want to include Hannah’s prayer and a passage from Acts

1Sa 2:1 And Hannah prayed and said: "My heart rejoices in the LORD; My horn is exalted in the LORD. I smile at my enemies, Because I rejoice in Your salvation.
1Sa 2:2 "No one is holy like the LORD, For [there is] none besides You, Nor [is there] any rock like our God.
1Sa 2:3 "Talk no more so very proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth, For the LORD [is] the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.
1Sa 2:4 "The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, And those who stumbled are girded with strength.
1Sa 2:5 [Those who were] full have hired themselves out for bread, And the hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Even the barren has borne seven, And she who has many children has become feeble.
1Sa 2:6 "The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up.
1Sa 2:7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.
1Sa 2:8 He raises the poor from the dust [And] lifts the beggar from the ash heap, To set [them] among princes And make them inherit the throne of glory. "For the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD's, And He has set the world upon them.
1Sa 2:9 He will guard the feet of His saints, But the wicked shall be silent in darkness. "For by strength no man shall prevail.
1Sa 2:10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces; From heaven He will thunder against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to His king, And exalt the horn of His anointed."

Act 18:24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man [and] mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.
Act 18:25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John.
Act 18:26 So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Act 18:27 And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
Act 18:28 for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

Spirit / Soul / Body (Resurrection)

Using the Blue Letter Bible online the word body occurs 224 times in 196 verses in the NKJV.

Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Gen 1:27 So God created man in His [own] image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Gen 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

 Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

 Mat 5:29 "If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast [it] from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
Mat 5:30 "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast [it] from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Mat 6:22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
Mat 6:23 "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great [is] that darkness!

 Luk 11:33 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts [it] in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.
Luk 11:34 "The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when [your eye] is bad, your body also [is] full of darkness.
Luk 11:35 "Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.
Luk 11:36 "If then your whole body [is] full of light, having no part dark, [the] whole [body] will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light."

Jhn 2:18 So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?"
Jhn 2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
Jhn 2:20 Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"
Jhn 2:21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

Jhn 2:22 Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; [fn] and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but [how] to perform what is good I do not find.

Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

1Cr 12:12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] Christ.
1Cr 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
1Cr 12:14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
1Cr 12:15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
1Cr 12:16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
1Cr 12:17 If the whole body [were] an eye, where [would be] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [would be] the smelling?
1Cr 12:18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
1Cr 12:19 And if they were all one member, where [would] the body [be]?
1Cr 12:20 But now indeed [there are] many members, yet one body.
1Cr 12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."
1Cr 12:22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
1Cr 12:23 And those [members] of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable [parts] have greater modesty,
1Cr 12:24 but our presentable [parts] have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that [part] which lacks it,
1Cr 12:25 that there should be no schism in the body, but [that] the members should have the same care for one another.
1Cr 12:26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with [it]; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with [it].
1Cr 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

2Cr 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, [this] tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2Cr 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
2Cr 5:3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
2Cr 5:4 For we who are in [this] tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
2Cr 5:5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

2Cr 5:6 So [we are] always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
2Cr 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.
2Cr 5:8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
2Cr 5:9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.
2Cr 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Eph 5:29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord [does] the church.
Eph 5:30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

Phl 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Phl 3:21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

Resurrection

Mat 22:29 Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Mat 22:30 "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God [fn] in heaven.

Luk 20:34 Jesus answered and said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
Luk 20:35 "But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;
Luk 20:36 "nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Luk 20:37 "But even Moses showed in the [burning] bush [passage] that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
Luk 20:38 "For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him."

Jhn 5:29 "and come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

Jhn 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.

Act 24:15   And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

1Cr 15:12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1Cr 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

Phl 3:10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
Phl 3:11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

1Pe 1:3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received [his] mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy [is] he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

Since the World Began

Since the World Began

This short lesson is from Rev. Ethelbert W. Bullinger’s book “The Witness of the Stars”.

After careful review of the twelve constellations we see such are the contents of this wondrous book that is written in the heavens. Thus has God been speaking and emphasizing and developing His first great prophetic promise of Gen. 3:15.

Though for more than 2,500 years His people had not this Revelation written in a book as we now have it in the Bible, they were not left in ignorance and darkness as to God’s purposes and councils; nor were they without hope as to the ultimate deliverance from all evil and the evil one.

Adam, who first heard that wondrous promise, repeated it, and gave it to his posterity as a most precious heritage------the ground of all their faith, the subsistence of all their hope, the object of all their desire. Seth and Enoch took it up. Enoch, we know, prophesied of the Lord’s coming, saying, “Behold the Lord with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment upon all” (Jude 14). How could these “holy prophets, since the world began,” have recorded their prophecies better, or more effectually, or more truthfully and powerfully, than in these star-pictures and their interpretation?  This becomes a certainty when we remember the words of the Holy Spirit by Zacharias (Luke 1: 67-70).

Luk 1:67 Now his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

Luk 1:68 "Blessed [is] the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people,
Luk 1:69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David,
Luk 1:70 As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who [have been] since the world began

The same truth is reveled through Peter, in Acts 3:20-21

Act 3:20 "and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,
Act 3:21 "whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

These words have new meaning for us, if we see the things which were spoken “since the world began”, thus written in the heavens, which utter speech (i.e. prophecy), and show forth this knowledge day after day and night after night, the heritage of all the earth, and their words reaching unto the ends of the world.

This Revelation, coinciding as it does in all its facts and truths with that afterwards recorded “in the Volume of the Book,” must have had the same Divine origin must have been made known by the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit.

Our study The Eternal Message in the Stars will proceed to compare the two, and we shall see how they agree at every point, proving that the source and origin of this Divine Revelation is one and the same.

Gen 1:14

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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: