THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS

(*Additional notes on 29th March 2012)
(**Edited and ***additional notes on 2nd April 2012) - apologies for an error made.

Zechariah 4:10
For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

There is this saying in Israel:-

• "Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

- Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 37a

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Find the one person in this world that God has ordained for you to help.  Whether you succeed or not is completely another matter.  The important thing is that at least you have tried.   Most of the time, you do not have to look too far.  Most of the time, the person is one of the member of your own family.   

Find that one person that you are supposed to save or reconcile with and be contented. 

Your father

Your mother

Your son

Your daughter

Your brother

Your sister

Your cousin

Your relative

Your grandmother

Your grandfather

Your grandson

Your granddaughter

Or for those without family ……………a friend or a stranger that was put on your path by the Lord.

MOVIE OF THE WEEK:-

Pleasantville (1998 motion picture)

A husband defending the honour of his wife; a mother saving her child or in Pleasantville David’s case, he was defending the honour of his Pleasantville mother from bullies.  The deed that completed him or perfected him that turned him into colour.  

* In David's twin sister Jennifer's case, she turned into colour after she found contentment at home.  Jennifer was perfected when she found peace at home.
Back to where she came from, Jennifer was discontented with her parents and she was struggling to find acceptance in society and at school.  

2 Corinthians 13:9

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

Psalms 37:37

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

“Perfect” according to Oxford dictionary:-

- having all the required elements, qualities or characteristics

- free from any flaw, faultless
- complete or absolute
- bring to completion

Before the event that turned David into colour, David was being honoured a town hero for putting out a burning tree and filling up the library with books that he has read before or indirectly helping his friends find colour in their lives, but David was still in black and white when all his friends had turned into colour. 

At the beginning of the movie, back home where David came from, he came from a divorced family.  His own father did not want to take care of him even when he was supposed to live with his dad for one week every month.  Feeling a little disappointment for his own parents, David diverted himself to watching television.  Perhaps he chose to ignore his own mother and found some comfort when he escaped into the TV episodes of Pleasantville. 

David needed to go through all the episodes or happenings at Pleasantville before he realised that his mother needed him. 

Whether be it small talk or serious talk, taking the effort to spend time together will do a world of difference to the one in need.  

At the end of the movie, David uses the remote control to go home and there he found his mother crying alone at the dining table.   He sat down probably for the first time having small talk with his mother and wiped away her tears. 

Revelation 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

(Movie transcript excerpt)

DAVID'S MOM

You know, when your father was here I thought well this is it. It's always gonna be like this. I have the right house and the right car and the right life.....

DAVID

There is no right house. There is no right car...

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DAVID

It's not supposed to be anything. Hold still for a second.

(He continues to clean his mother's face as she looks at him with a strange new expression.)

DAVID'S MOM

How'd you get so smart all of a sudden?

 

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Yesterday, I found the reason why I was still in “black & white”.   

I kept searching for a reason to live that was right in front of me. 

I am to protect my mother and to defend my parents’ honour.    

In witnessing, I hope also to be able to defend the honour of Adam and Eve at the same time.  

The pain and suffering that they had to endure.  Their names had been dragged through the mud by people who did not know them personally.  False stories that tell of Eve after the fall became a terrible evil witch.   All these lies have to end.



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Most of the time, people everywhere and from any period of time, have a tendency to form opinions and judgements on people that they hardly know or do not know personally at all.
This is what psychology and theology are all about, is it not?

Throughout the centuries, direct relationship with the LORD and family life have turned into schools of thought or today so called Theological Seminaries, having evolved into a bunch of people sitting in their own little thrones of judgement and appointing themselves as leaders of churches, so on and so forth.  These apostates create their own ideas, doctrines and books; and they use their own doctrines to teach and enforce upon the unsuspecting masses.

1 Timothy 4

New King James Version (NKJV)

The Great Apostasy

"4 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, ³ forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; ⁵ for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."

Did the first leader of Israel, Moses attended any Theological Seminary?  Moses was appointed by the LORD Most High.
 
Prophets and Church leaders cannot be self appointed or appointed by peers.  What is worse is when many so-called prophets and church leaders are appointed by "deceiving spirits" and hence they teach the doctrine of demons. 

Prophets and Church leaders must be called by the LORD.  

We get all hyped up about examining and studying the human mind or the nature of GOD, when most of the time, we do not even have a clue about ourselves.  Live! and you will learn. 

Like the Greeks used to say, "Know Thyself" ! 
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If you read the Bible, God never asked us to be Superman.  Life was suppose to be easy.   The LORD never demanded that we work to our bones to save ourselves or to serve others in such manner.   You can fly all over the world to save as many people or animals or plants as possible but if you choose to ignore the people closest to you or the people you love, what good is there in that?    

Does it profit me if I am able to travel at the speed of light or speed of thought but I am not able to hold on to the one I love?   

What profit is there for me if I am able to save billions of people but lost the one who loves me and means the most to me? 

While there are good points in being competitive as it pushes us forward and to innovate, but when it becomes an obsession and starts to destroy our surrounding and the people we love, it is time to stop. 

If you really want to save the whole world, nobody is stopping you.  Try not do it at the expense of your loved ones.

Mark 8:34

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Mark 8:35

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Mark 8:37

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 8:38

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

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Matthew 15:24

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

The LORD Most High creator of the heavens and the earth came to us as Jesus of Nazareth to defend, save and died for His own people Israel.  Jesus died for Israel alone.  HIS blood poured out was for making a New Covenant with the Children of Israel to replace the covenant HE made with Moses and the Children of Israel.  
** (The LORD did not come to renew the covenants HE made with the Gentiles / Noah which still stands until today.)    

In the process, His story reached around the world and saved many Gentiles as well, those who walked as He walked, in faith.   Gentiles need only believe and have faith just as Abraham had faith and it counted him a righteous man.  

***  Jesus of Nazareth, the LORD Most High came to save Israel having died for just one person, and in the process it is considered as if HE has saved the entire world.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Ephesians 2:9

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

These two verses in Ephesians "......saved through faith ...........not of works........." have caused much confusion among "Christians" of what is basically very simple.  

The word "works" mentioned in Ephesians 2:9 are of a wide angle covering all types of works and it could be referring to rituals, sacrifices, carrying out of commandments, hours worked and even good works. 

As a result, many "Christians" actually think that they do NOT have to "DO anything" in order to be saved.  Which brings us to Ephesians 2:10, if we are saved, we would naturally be able to walk in the path of Christ Jesus unto good works.  

In short, you are not saved based on what you do, but you are able do all things unto Christ because you are saved.  The LORD Most High will not measure your salvation based on what you did or are able to do.  

A Father does all He can to save his children because they are his children and not based on what they are capable of doing.  One of his children maybe a rich great inventor and businessman or a Church pastor, while another maybe just a simple shepherd boy and yet a Father's perfect love is equal for all his children.  But if the rich businessman plans to overthrow his father and plan to take all that belongs to his father and his brothers inheritance; then a father has the right to judge his wayward child according to the greatness of his mercy or wrath.       

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The Bible said that Jesus of Nazareth died for the whole world.  It was only meant as a blanket offer of salvation through faith for all human beings.  You must read the whole Bible in order to see the whole meaning.    

(for example, you go to a supermarket and they have this sign that says, “FREE $100 GIFT VOUCHER”.  Do you think that every single person that walks through that door will get that free $100 voucher?  You will start to ask questions and read the fine lines. The terms and conditions notes will probably say, “For every $1000 purchase, you will get one free $100 gift voucher” for a limited period of time only.)

He did not die for those individuals who hate the LORD and His ways.  

He did not die for Satan or any of the fallen angels. 

The Jews would certainly say that Jesus did not die for Adolf Hitler. 

My sister would say that she does not even want to stand in the same room with our neighbour Mrs A; to think that the sons of God had to endure to stand in the same room with Satan when Satan came to present himself before the LORD – its like forcing Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu to stand in the same room with Adolf Hitler.  

Job 2:1

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

What does all this mean? 

All people will stand before the LORD Most High and as our Heavenly Father, He has every right to reward or punish you because He created you.  Just as your earthly father has every right to reward or punish his children.  

The LORD Most High does not look at you based on what religion you associate yourself with.  Religions are self-made or man-made club or prison that you impose upon yourself.  The LORD Most High looks at you as a human being and whether you are a child of God or a child of Satan.  Just as your father looks at you as his child and not the school or club that you have affiliated yourself with.  

You are your father’s son and not a son of club XYZ.  But if you betray your father and take club XYZ in higher regard than your own father, then your father has every right to do to you as he sees fit – whether to punish you or to completely cut you off from his estate. 

Isaiah 14:15

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Isaiah 14:16

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

What do you do when someone is infected with a deadly strain of virus?  Quarantine

Doctors will isolate and try to cure you before you infect others.   

An infectious person with total freedom to move about will be catastrophic to other people.  

That is why the LORD had to quarantine and strip Adam and Eve and their generations from their full potential, powers and freedom until sin is totally removed through genuine repentance and spiritual regeneration granted by the LORD Most High.   

Luke 3:38

Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

1st John 2:2

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

1st John 2:3

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1st John 2:4

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1st John 2:5

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

1st John 2:6

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Philippians 2:15

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

QUIZ TIME !!!

Just a question to stir your minds a bit.

Any prize if you get the correct answer?

Well, I am unable to give out any monetary prizes but I can offer to the LORD Most High a prayer for you and your family, and request for a secret blessing from the LORD for you.

I suppose everybody knows the FRUIT of the SPIRIT is listed in –

Galatians 5:22-23 - 

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

The Quiz QUESTION is: -

Tell me where can you find in the whole Bible, a list of FRUITS of the DEVIL?

3 Clues: 

1)   It is not one verse each from all over the Bible, it’s a direct list from one verse to another consecutively.


2)   It is not Galatians 5:19-21

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

It is not Galatians 5:19-21, because it states the works of the flesh manifested AFTER we eat (take in/digested/partake) the Devil’s fruit.

3)   The clue lies in Galatians 5:18  -  “But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”


It’s like a 600 pound Gorilla hidden in plain sight!!!

Yes, it is hidden and yet it is in plain sight!

Happy hunting! 

(Please don’t go hunting actual Gorillas!!!)

Thank you.

(the answer to the above question will be explained in one of the upcoming letters) 

Translating the Bible into different languages

 

Translating the Bible into different languages

This is about the accuracy of Bible translations and not about Bible interpretations.  It seems that some Bibles are translations are done word for word, while some translations are done based on the private interpretations of its translators.   Most translations however, are far from the original meaning of the Torah that was written in the Hebrew language.

When a translation is done properly, then interpretations can flow easily and in certain passages, one verse alone can have one or more interpretations but NOT the entire Bible.  Many verses in the Bible actually have just ONE direct meaning or interpretation.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has basically appointed the Children of Israel as guardians of the Torah (Torah is the Word of God or instructions from God, dictated to Moses that formed the first 5 books in the Bible).

To take a small example, let’s examine the verse in Genesis 3:20

In English alone, difference between the New International Version and New King James Version can be compared as reading the verse from Hell or from Heaven. 

NIV portrays Eve as a girl who has never given birth before but in the future she would give birth to the whole human race. 

KJV simply portrays that Eve had died but when she was alive, she was the mother of all living children. 

From the beginning the Lord encouraged them to be fruitful and multiply.  Multiply they did indeed as the woman gave birth to sons of God with ease and joy.  

After the fall, in Genesis 3:16 - "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception................................"

the LORD multiplied the woman's pain and sorrow in childbirth.  If the woman had never given birth before, the LORD will not have bothered to mention about childbirth as she will not have any idea about it and will not be able to compare the "before" and "after".   You can only multiply something that you have done before.  Basic mathematics is no matter how big the number you multiply with zero, you will only get zero.  

Genesis 3:20

New International Version

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

Wycliffe Bible

And Adam called the name of his wife Eve, for she was the mother of all men living (for she was the mother of all living people).

New King James Version

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

American Standard version

And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Good News Translation

Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all human beings.

“eve: This name sounds similar to the Hebrew word for living, which is rendered in this context as human beings.”

new living translation

Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.

Young's Literal Translation

And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living.

GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Adam named his wife Eve [Life] because she became the mother of every living person.

Amplified Bible (AMP)

The man called his wife's name Eve [life spring], because she was the mother of all the living.

In the Oxford dictionary :-

would - …..indicating the consequence of an imagined event.

was - …. singular past of be.

be - … exist; be present.  ….singular present am; is; are;

consequence – a result or effect…

ARE YOU DEAD OR LIVING ?

Basically from the beginning until their expulsion, Adam called himself “man” and his wife “woman” for she was made from him.

Adam named his wife Eve after receiving their punishment from God.

Some Bible translators reasoned among themselves and said that Adam was prophesying that his wife Eve “in the future” would be the mother of all living people.  This is not true because Eve became the mother of the dead and not the living.  

Let us think about Adam’s character.  He was used to naming animals on sight by observing their nature and sound as the LORD Most High brought him around to see each animal.

When Adam saw that his wife was spiritually dead, he immediately named her Eve (she was living) as a memorial to her, in the way we would carve out a tomb stone for our spouse.  What do you see on tomb stones? 

[Herein lies Eve, who was the mother of children 1,2,3,4, ……. all living…]

Ephesians 2:1

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

1 Timothy 5:6

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

After the fall, Eve gave birth to all who were spiritually dead unless they were quickened (or born-again) by the Holy Spirit of the LORD Most High.   

Dead in trespasses and sins as the serpent introduced to the Woman and Adam who was with her the whole time:-

•       disobedience to their Father - the LORD Most High;

•      telling lies or thinking that they can keep secrets (about eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) from the LORD – the Lord searches the reins of the heart, there is nothing you can keep secret from Him;

•     self promotion to make one wise as God;

•    Superficiality and false promotion of what is pleasing to the eyes.  All trees were equally pleasant, but the serpent used critical thinking and false public relations advertising and such like to promote one tree making it more appealing than the others; and like us gullible consumers, both man and woman bought the fruit the serpent peddled.     

Genesis 2:9  -  And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Colossians 1:10	That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Colossians 3:20	Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Adam and Eve already had everything to their hearts content.  They eat and play all day, the whole earth is theirs for the taking; but the serpent also sowed seeds of discontentment and vanity in them by suggesting, “You already have everything, why not one more?”  All the trees had food that was pleasing to the eyes and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is no different from the other trees. It only had an extra verbal signboard that probably says, “Do not touch or you will die”. 

You are able to fill up a cup of a person who is contented in life.  Even so, his is able to feel contentment and his cup is filled to the brim and his joys runs over.  He is full, satisfied and he is rich by the contents of his cup.  He is not empty. 

How does a person fill up a cup that is discontented? 

There are holes around his cup and at the bottom the cup. 

There must be continuous strife and struggle to fill such a cup, otherwise he will feel continuously empty and hollow. 

How much drugs do you need to take in order to feel high?  

How many parties that you need to go to in order to feel that you belong?  

How many people do you have to go through or hurt in order to be satisfied? 

There is no end to a bottomless pit. 

However, the END is you. 

By taking after the nature of the devil will only serve to destroy you.  

There is NO cork that can plug up the bottomless pit.  

You have to depend and put your trust in the LORD Most High to get you out of the pit of discontentment and strife.   

Let the LORD Most High lead you as a shepherd and you must follow the ways of the LORD in order to become a contented sheep that will lack of nothing.

Psalm 23

New King James Version (NKJV)

A Psalm of David.

¹ The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
² He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
³ He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
⁶ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell^[a] in the house of the Lord
Forever.

Example in Proverbs 9:17, stolen water is no sweeter than water you have to buy or running streams of fresh water in the forest that is FREE for all to drink. Bread is still bread no matter where you eat it.  Can a piece of bread be tastier or so much more pleasant if you eat it hiding in the closet? 

So this is what a foolish adulterous woman would tell a foolish man - that she can be much more pleasant than his beautiful wife.  The foolish man thought that adultery can remain in secret and the wife will never find out; not knowing that his actions or the lack of it (as he did not put up a fight against the foolish woman) will not only break her heart but also his own. 

Proverbs 9:18 - But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 9:17 -   “Stolen water is sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

By listening to the serpent, the man not only killed his wife but also killed himself in the process.  The LORD held Man responsible for killing the woman because he did not fight off the serpent nor did he advise her to take precautions against the serpent.  Man was much older and therefore had much more experience conversing with the LORD than the woman.  That is why Adam was cursed alongside Eve.

Even, animals (that do not have spirit) do not need to interrogate you verbally in order to find out what they need to know.  Sometimes, certain animals have a good sense of perception and will use their sense of smell and perception in order to find out or read what your basic intentions are. 

What more of mankind that were created to take charge of all the animals and everything in this whole earth and created in the likeness and image of God.  There is no doubt that the average man does have a good sense of perception and is able to read another person’s intentions and man can do things that cannot be compared to an animal because a person’s soul/spirit is much stronger than the flesh.   

 

Proverbs

Chapter 9

New King James Version (NKJV)

The Way of Wisdom

¹ Wisdom has built her house,
She has hewn out her seven pillars;
² She has slaughtered her meat,
She has mixed her wine,
She has also furnished her table.
³ She has sent out her maidens,
She cries out from the highest places of the city,
⁴ “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
⁵ “Come, eat of my bread
And drink of the wine I have mixed.
⁶ Forsake foolishness and live,
And go in the way of understanding.

⁷ “He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself,
And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.
⁸ Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you;
Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
⁹ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;
Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

¹⁰ “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
¹¹ For by me your days will be multiplied,
And years of life will be added to you.
¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,
And if you scoff, you will bear it alone.”

The Way of Folly

¹³ A foolish woman is clamorous;
She is simple, and knows nothing.
¹⁴ For she sits at the door of her house,
On a seat by the highest places of the city,
¹⁵ To call to those who pass by,
Who go straight on their way:
¹⁶ “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here”;
And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweet,
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
¹⁸ But he does not know that the dead are there,
That her guests are in the depths of hell.

In the Bible there are different interpretations to the words “dead” and “living”.

There are those that are dead in the spirit and dead in the flesh (corpse).

Same goes for those that are living in the full righteousness and glory of the LORD and those living in the flesh.   

Then are those that are living with the LIVING GOD.  

Galatians 4:28

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Galatians 4:28

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Isaac was born of after the Spirit and even so the Children of Israel are sons of the Living GOD.  Even so, our Creator came to us in the form of Jesus to represent all of Israel as Son of God (Matthew 16:16) and to redeem all of mankind chosen from the foundation of the world that are quickened or restored by the Spirit of the LORD Most High.  

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Matthew 16:16

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Adam and Eve became dead in the spirit which resulted in the slow death of their bodies as well as their flesh slowly deteriorate and eventually return to the ground.

When the body expires or die and return to the ground, the Soul or Spirit of Man born of God returns to the Living GOD or transported to the realms of the Living God.  That is why Jesus said Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are not dead but of the LIVING !!!

Matthew 22:32

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Luke 20:38

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

For tares that are not born of God, are tares taking after the likeness of the devil, as tares are born of the devil because tares take after the nature of the devil with all his lusts and lies.  The ways of the devil is death and the man that follows the devil is considered dead regardless of whether he is still breathing or not. 

The prodigal son’s riotous living and selfish separation was considered as good as dead to his father; but true repentance restores the soul and spirit.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Romans 14:9

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

Matthew 8:22

But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Luke 15:32

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

2 Timothy 4:1

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

James 2:26

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Psalms 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Revelation 20:12

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.