
The
following are passages
that deal with those who cannot enter the Kingdom of dedi. They
are what I call "the lists". Where the books of the Testimony,
Letters and Revelations [New Testament] frequently uses the phrase “Malkuth HaShamayim [Kingdom of
the Heavens]” , the Tanak [OT] used the phrase "Malkuth dedi [Kingdom of dedi]]]", once, in the post-exilic
book of Dibrey HaYamiym Alef [I Chronicles] 28:5. The phrase, "the kingdom of
the heavens", or "kingdom of heaven", does not even occur in the
Tanak.
Kingdom of the Heavens was a post-exilic euphemism for YHWH,
since His name was banned from being spoken. "The earliest occurrences (except for Dan. 4:23: "It is Heaven that
rules") of the substitution of the word "Heaven" (God's abode)
for "God" (Himself) are found in the Apocrypha: "In the sight of
Heaven" (I Macc. 3:18), "Let us cry to
Heaven" (I Macc. 4:10), "They were singing
hymns and glorifying Heaven" (I Macc. 4:24),
"All the people... adored and praised Heaven" (I Macc.
4:55), "With the help of Heaven" (I Macc.
12:15), and "From Heaven I received these [sons]" (II Macc. 7:11). In the Christian Gospels this usage is
especially common in the Judeo-Christian Gospel of Matthew, where, e.g.,
"the kingdom of Heaven" corresponds to "the kingdom of God"
in the parallel passages of Mark and Luke (Matt. 3:2 = Mark 1:15; Matt. 5:3 =
Luke 6:20; et al.), but also in Luke 15:18, 21: "I have sinned against
Heaven." This usage still persists in such modern English expressions as
"Heaven help us!" - Encyclopedia Judaica, God,
Names of.
"Since God dwelt in heaven, it
was customary to use the term 'heaven' (shamayim) as
a substitute for the name of God in the Talmudic period." The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 5,
Heaven.
"The term Malchuth
shamayim, or
"While the
After a
bit of research, it is obvious that the phrase, "the
These lists
simply contain the laws that were spread out in the Thorah
[Law] of YHWH. A few of the acts mentioned in the lists, are not specific to
the Thorah, but are matters of immorality. There were
laws that were general and then there were laws that were specific. The
specific laws came about when certain behavior became dominant enough that the
situation had to be addressed and a law would follow. An example of this is the
law in HaDebariym [Deuteronomy] 25:11,12, which states, " '11 when men fight with one another, and the wife of the
one will come near to deliver her husband from his assailant's hand, and will
put out her hand and lay hold on his genitals,
12 then you will cut off her palm; your eye will not pity.'
" This law is not one of those
given by YHWH, nor is it one that was written in the earlier books of the law,
but one listed in HaDebariym, which was written much
later. Apparently this was a frequent enough occurance,
that a prohibitive law became necessary.
Another example, and one that ties
in with these lists is lesbianism. Lesbianism, as it is translated in some
translations, is
listed specifically once, yet appears no where in the Tanak.
Romans 1:26, states that their women exchanged natural relations for what is
against nature and the following verse says that likewise, the men also left
the natural relations with the women and burned with lust for one another. The
common phrase of the lists is sexual immorality, which is a blanket term and
can mean a number of things,
and homosexuality, arsenokoites, is
specific to men with men. The verses in the Tanak
speak specifically of men with men. Does that mean that sexual relations of
women with women is allowed, just because it is not
specifically mentioned? I don’t believe so. The Tanak
also does not mention orgies specifically, yet the lists do several times. The Tanak prohibits sexual interation
with anyones besides your spouse, which would blanketly cover orgies as being prohibitive. Just because
it was not specificially defined as such, during the
time period that the writers of the Tanak wrote in,
does not excuse the activity as not being sexually immoral and one approved or
allowed by YHWH.
Another point of those that will not enter the "
The Lists
|
MaththiYahu 15:19 |
evil thoughts |
theft |
|
[Matthew] |
murder |
false
testimony |
|
|
adultery |
slander |
|
|
sexual
immorality |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark
7:21-23 |
evil
thoughts |
deceit |
|
|
sexual
immorality |
lewdness |
|
|
theft |
envy |
|
|
murder |
slander |
|
|
adultery |
arrogance |
|
|
greed |
folly |
|
|
malice |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Romans
1:24-31 |
sexual
impurity |
gossips |
|
|
idolatry |
slanderers |
|
|
lesbianism |
haters
of YHWH |
|
|
homosexuality |
insolent |
|
|
every
kind of wickedness |
arrogant |
|
|
evil |
boastful |
|
|
greed |
invent
ways of doing evil |
|
|
depravity |
disobey
parents |
|
|
envy |
senseless |
|
|
murder |
faithless |
|
|
strife |
heartless |
|
|
deceit |
ruthless |
|
|
malice |
|
|
|
|
|
|
I
Corinthians 6:9-10 |
sexually
immoral |
thieves |
|
|
idolaters |
greedy |
|
|
adulterers |
drunkards |
|
|
male
prostitutes |
slanderers |
|
|
homosexual
offenders |
swindlers |
|
|
|
|
|
Galatians
5:19-21 |
sexual
immorality |
fits of
rage |
|
|
impurity |
selfish
ambition |
|
|
debauchery |
dissensions |
|
|
idolatry |
factions |
|
|
witchcraft |
envy |
|
|
hatred |
drunkenness |
|
|
discord |
orgies |
|
|
jealousy |
|
|
|
|
|
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Ephesians
4:25-32 |
falsehoods |
rage |
|
|
anger |
brawling |
|
|
stealing |
slander |
|
|
unwholesome
talk |
malice |
|
|
bitterness |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ephesians
5:3-6, 17, 18 |
sexual
immorality |
idolatry |
|
|
impurity |
disobedient |
|
|
greed |
foolish |
|
|
obscenity |
drunkenness |
|
|
foolish
talk |
debauchery |
|
|
coarse
joking |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Colossians
3:5-9 |
sexual
immorality |
rage |
|
|
impurity |
malice |
|
|
lust |
slander |
|
|
evil
desires |
filthy
language |
|
|
greed |
lying |
|
|
anger |
|
|
|
|
|
|
II
Timothy 3:1-9 |
lovers
of themselves |
unforgiving |
|
|
lovers
of money |
slanderous |
|
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boastful |
without
self-control |
|
|
proud |
brutal |
|
|
abusive |
not
lovers of good |
|
|
disobedient
to parents |
treacherous |
|
|
ungrateful |
rash |
|
|
unrighteous |
conceited |
|
|
without
love |
lovers
of pleasure |
|
|
having a
form of righteousness |
denying
righteous power |
|
|
worm way
into homes |
gain
control over weak-willed women |
|
|
always
learning but never able to acknowledge the truth |
oppose
the truth |
|
|
depraved
minds |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yahudah [Jude] 7-16 |
sexual
immorality |
going
after flesh |
|
|
pollute
their own bodies |
reject
authority |
|
|
slander |
speak
abusively |
|
|
shepherds
who only feed themselves |
grumblers |
|
|
faultfinders |
follow
own evil desires |
|
|
boasting |
flatter
others for their own advantage |
|
|
scoffers |
divisive |
|
|
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|
Revelations
2:21:8 |
cowardly |
sexually
immoral |
|
|
unbelieving |
practice
magic arts |
|
|
vile |
idolaters |
|
|
murders |
liars |
|
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