Albert Trigg

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Let’s think about how Greek the early Jewish Christians were.

Notice, for instance, that all seven men chosen to assist the apostles in Acts 6, Stephen, Philip, and the others, had Greek names, not Hebrew ones. The last man listed, Nicolas, was a proselyte, meaning he was born a Gentile but converted to the faith of Israel.

More than three centuries earlier, as a result of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Greek language became the common language of the eastern Mediterranean. This was part of the providential hand of God preparing the world for the spread of the gospel.

For many Jews in the Roman Empire, Greek was their first language. Jewish scholars began translating the Old Testament into Greek in the third century BC. In Galilee and Judea, where Jesus and the apostles lived, Aramaic was the everyday language of the Jews, and Greek was widely spoken all around them. The situation was not unlike that of many Europeans today who move easily between two, three, or even four languages.

That multilingual world helps explain why the seven men chosen in Acts 6 all had Greek names. It also helps explain how the gospel spread so rapidly beyond the borders of Judea.

God would use men like these to carry the message of Christ farther and farther after the martyrdom of Stephen, which we'll read about in a few days. And, of course, they were not alone. God also raised up Paul and others to proclaim the good news, in Greek, throughout the Greco-Roman world.

Small wonder, then, that the entire New Testament was written in Greek rather than Hebrew or Aramaic. These letters, Gospels, and sermons would be read across the Roman Empire. The Lord had been preparing the world for centuries for the coming of Christ and the spread of his gospel.

If we can see the providential hand of God at work in all of that, how can we doubt that the same Lord is at work in the details of our lives today? The God who was guiding languages, cultures, empires, and history itself for the sake of the gospel is no less active in our lives today.

[UK DISPATCH @UK_Dispatch_]

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Help find missing 15-year-old Donna-Maria from Brighton.

She is around 5’4” tall, with short curly red hair, but is likely wearing a long dark-coloured wig.

If you see her, please call 999 immediately and quote reference 47260162906

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

There are beautiful patterns in Scripture, particularly in Matthew, of

Those unable to help themselves, being brought to Christ by others

the paralytic
the demon possessed
the blind
and children

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

@LostMyHats

Do you have an answer to this?

[E511 Ministries @E511_Ministries]

@LostMyHats @Ifdn2026 @jeffdornik And who are the "ethnic Jews" in your view, and where are they? You dismiss the Ashkenazi as legitimate Jews, but say they are "rejecting THEIR king." If they're not actual ethnic Jews, how are they rejecting THEIR king?

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

@Juha_IV_X The question is, do we believe sin or do we believe Christ, when He tells us our sins are forgiven

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

"Your deeds won’t let you return to your God"

Hosea 5:4

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

"For your love vanishes like the morning mist

and disappears like dew in the sunlight"

Hosea 6:4

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

The worse possible way to go out of the competition is for your team not to gamble, not to go for it, using all that you have

Portugal got what they deserve

Tepid stuff

#PORSPA

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

Martinez setting up Portugal to not even try and win the game in a knockout comp

#PORSPA

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

One of my favorite Hebrew words stands in the background of every Christian wedding service when the pastor quotes Genesis 2:24: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

The Hebrew verb translated “hold fast” is דָּבַק (dāvaq). It carries the idea of sticking to, clinging to, adhering to, or being joined closely to another. In the literal sense, it can describe a hand clinging to a sword or skin clinging to bones. But it is often used metaphorically.

In Genesis 2:24, a husband and wife dāvaq to one another. They are bound together in a union so intimate that they become “one flesh.”

But this same verb is also used to describe the relationship between believers and God.

In one of the chapters we read today in Bible in One Year, Moses tells Israel, “Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast [dāvaq] to him” (Deut. 30:19-20). Why? “For he is your life” (Deut. 30:20).

This is no long-distance relationship. God's people are joined to him. They cling to him because he first has hold of them.

And this reaches its fullest expression in Jesus Christ. Through baptism into Christ's body, we are united to him. We become one with the one who is one with the Father. Joined to Christ, we cling to him, and through him we are joined to the Father and to all his people.

So every time you hear Genesis 2 read at a wedding, remember that the same Hebrew verb that describes a husband and wife holding fast to one another also describes the believer holding fast to God. We dāvaq to him, even as he holds fast to us.

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

@SecretSunBlog Not to mention the Masonic "M" on the Virgin logo made up of legs and arms

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

"And when they looked up, Moses and Elijah were gone, and they saw only Jesus"

Matthew 17:8

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

@London_W4 Meanwhile in Oxford

From August, cars cannot freely drive through "traffic filter zones" without a permit

Oxford residents: can have up up to 100 pass days per year

Oxfordshire residents: 25 pass days per year

0 for outside Oxfordshire

One zone includes the main hospital

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

@WeAreTheOverlap A good Premier League player

That's it

That is his level

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.

She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.

And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.

To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.

I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?

Then I realized I was the wife.

I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.

And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”

He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”

That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.

He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.

Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.

Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.

The cross was Him naming the price.

Praise the Lord.

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

A lesson for Tuchel here is that Anderson & Rice in the middle are ineffective

They both played better when Rice moved to right back

#ENGDRC

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

Fine example of a lack of pace and speed on the break when the opportunity arose for England

#ENGDRC

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

I am watching this England team and thinking how can Foden & Palmer not be there

#ENGDRC

[Albert Trigg @Alberttrigg]

This is abysmal from England

All over the place

What has Tuchel been doing?

The defence is none existent

#ENGDRC

[JD™ @LostMyHats]

Dispensational Zionism is an authentically Jewish way of interpreting the Old Testament. No doubt. They use the same hermeneutic to come to the same conclusions, except what Jews are calling the Messianic Age, Dispensational Zionists are calling the Second Advent.

This uniquely Jewish hermeneutic, that reads a political kingdom, national Israel, and obsession with geographical hegemony into every passage and places Jews at the center of God’s universe, is why they failed to recognize their own Messiah when they were crucifying Him.

It’s why some, like the Sanhedrin, knew He was the Messiah and murdered Him anyway, and why even after seeing Him raised again from the dead, they murdered his followers. Why? They wanted their kingdom more than they wanted their own King.

For 1800 years, Christians interpreted the Bible, unsurprisingly, as Christians, using a Christ-centered hermeneutic that presumed it was all about Jesus, not Israel, and about Christ’s Kingdom, not theirs.

Darby made the church a “parentheses,” turned Christians into a divine distraction while God kindly awaited His first love to come back around, and took the same exact world that Jews thought their political warlord savior would build, and applied it to the Second Coming. To do so, he allowed Jews to retain a special Covenant status with God apart from faith in Jesus, turned God into a respecter of persons, exchanged divine election for genetic birthright, and made Christians into a second-class afterthought keeping their seat warm until the Jews came back home.

The Judaizing Heresy of the New Testament got a new, eschatological suit, retained the notion of ethnic privilege, and demoted Jesus from global Messiah to the tribal bush deity mascot of a desert war cult who serves as divine doormat until, at such time, the Jews allow Him to return from exile and make Him king again.

Worse yet, Christians are told they must prove they love Jesus by proving they love his rejectors, by helping them return from the exile God gave them, helping to re-establish the very kingdom God destroyed, to await the rebuilding of a literal temple that Peter says is the Body of Christ. But if you oppose this scheme, you oppose Abraham, and God will curse and destroy you.

I praise God daily that the bewitching curse is being lifted in Christendom, and fewer people than ever are countenancing this bizarre superstition.