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INTRODUCTION:

All of these pages have the same verses at top in the introduction, designed to help you understand how to understand the Word of God, in context, without any of one's own private interpretation which changes meanings to fit one's pet doctrines. Not to mention goes against the Word of God.

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

(2 Peter 3:16 [KJV])
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

(Psalms 12:6-7 [KJV])
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

(2 Timothy 2:15-16 [KJV])
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

(Acts 17:10-11 [KJV])
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

As the verses above say and teach, always research for yourself, always use all of the context of all Scripture, always rightly divide that Word of Truth and never privately interpret it!

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, concordances nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

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1 Thessalonians Chapter 1: BEING AN EXAMPLE FOR THE GOSPEL

Thessalonica/Thessalonike, today Thessaloniki was an ancient Macedonian capital city in the north of Greece, situated on the trade route to the east, as well as strategically located to be useful for military attacks, defense, etc. So far as is known and reported, discovered, Thessalonica was founded in or around 316 B.C. by the Macedonian general Cassander (a general under Alexander the Great) who named it after his wife Thessalonike, who was the daughter of Philip II of Macedon. Cassander was a self-proclaimed king of Macedon during the political upheaval and turmoil which happened after the death of Alexander the Great. When the Gospel reached here, persecution followed, as it always does. Having already been accustomed to the persecution of the men carrying carrying the Gospel, Paul, Timothy and Silvanus worked to prepare them for this spiritual and physical attack they were warned would come, and did, soon after they got saved. (1 Thessalonians 1:1 [AKJV/PCE])
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

SILVANUS

(2 Corinthians 1:19 [AKJV/PCE])
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

(2 Thessalonians 1:1 [AKJV/PCE])
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

It would appear that Paul, Timothy and Silvanus were constant ministry partners, companions

(1 Thessalonians 1:2 [AKJV/PCE])
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

(1 Thessalonians 1:3 [AKJV/PCE])
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

(1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 [AKJV/PCE])
Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

(1 Thessalonians 1:4 [AKJV/PCE])
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

(2 Peter 3:9 [AKJV/PCE])
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

(Matthew 7:13-14 [AKJV/PCE])
ΒΆ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

(1 Thessalonians 1:5 [AKJV/PCE])
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

(1 Thessalonians 1:6 [AKJV/PCE])
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

ONLY FOLLOW THOSE WHO FOLLOW CHRIST

(1 Corinthians 4:16 [AKJV/PCE])
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

(1 Corinthians 11:1 [AKJV/PCE])
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

(Philippians 3:17 [AKJV/PCE])
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

(2 Thessalonians 3:9 [AKJV/PCE])
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

(1 Thessalonians 1:7 [AKJV/PCE])
So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

(1 Thessalonians 1:8 [AKJV/PCE])
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

(1 Thessalonians 1:9 [AKJV/PCE])
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

(1 Thessalonians 1:10 [AKJV/PCE])
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

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