Re: [TruthTalk] The Sabbath Breaker of Numbers

[Slade Henson]

This is why I use words like "salvation" to delineate what you have just said (salvation from calamity) and I use "Eternal Life" in reference to being saved from the handwritten ordinances against us (Col 2).   -- slade     ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 22 March, 2003 21:24 Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] The Sabbath Breaker of Numbers You are right.  I was trying to give an illustration of the context.  The context of Acts 2:40 had to do with the evil civilization around them.  Below was what I was trying to illustrate.  This verse is not about getting saved from my sins but about get saved from physical destruction in context. The New John  Gill Exposition of the Bible saying, save yourselves from this untoward generation: meaning, the chief priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, and elders of the people, chiefly, who were a perverse generation of men; and upon whom, for their impenitence and unbelief, for their rejection of the Messiah, and their evil treatment of him, wrath and ruin would come upon them, to the uttermost, very quickly; wherefore the apostle exhorts to separate from them, and not partake of their sins, lest they should also of their plagues; but come out from among them, and so, in a temporal sense, save themselves from the destruction that would quickly come on their nation, city, and temple; and so the Arabic version renders it, "escape from this rough generation".