Context is king | Rapp Report Daily 0013 | Andrew Rappaport | SFE | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. In the middle of the night, dark, rainy, moonless night, a man is seen running from a home.
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- Screams of horror from a woman inside the house, and the man is running.
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- It's a rainy night, and he's running from the house. Is this man doing something wrong?
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- Well, the context would be that he was running to go get a doctor because his wife was in labor.
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- You see, context can change the meaning of what we think something means.
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- Context is the most important thing when it comes to interpreting the Bible. When we look at context, there's many different things that come into that category.
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- You have the immediate context, the context of the passage before and after it.
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- You have the context of history. What is going on historically at the time? You have the cultural context because, believe it or not, 2 ,000 years ago, they wouldn't have understood what
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- Facebook is, email, things like this. The culture has changed.
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- If you want to look at not only the culture, the history, the literary context, meaning what's before and after the passage, but you also have spiritual context.
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- Is this dealing with Israel? Is this dealing with the church age? What's going on? What information have they been given at this time?
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- You have all these things that play into context. If you want to rightly interpret
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- God's Word, then you must rightly understand the importance of context. This podcast is part of the
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