Jesus: The Silent Years TG09-68 April 25, 2010 View Class The Evacuation to Egypt, Matt 2:13; the 6 Annunciations; Gabriel Instructs Joseph to Leave Bethlehem with 3 Imperatives: Take, Leave, & Stay; Magi’s Gifts Underwrite the Sojourn to Egypt; Herod Prepares His Squad of Assassins TG09-69 May 2, 2010 View Class John’s Double Entendre in Rev 12:1–4: the Satanic Plot to Assassinate Messiah & the Attempted Holocaust in the Tribulation; Jeremiah’s Description of Jewish Negative Volition in the Tribulation, Jer 30:4–7 TG09-70 May 2, 2010 View Class Charles Feinberg on “That Day” in Jer 30:4–6; Gabriel’s Mandate to Joseph, Matt 2:13; Comparison of Imperatives vs. Responses; Joseph’s Integrity Part of God’s Choosing Him as Legal Father of Jesus; Evacuation from Palestine; Magi’s Gifts Underwrite Egyptian Excursion; Jewish Blindness to Messiah’s Presence, v. 14 TG09-71 May 9, 2010 View Class Joseph Takes Jesus into Protective Custody & Evacuates Bethlehem for Egypt, Matt 2:14; Documenting the Death of Herod in 1 B.C., v. 15; Joseph Not Only Had the Davidic Bloodline but also the Integrity to Be Legal Father of Jesus; Jesus Was Prophesied to Come out from Egypt, Hosea 11:1 TG09-72 May 9, 2010 View Class Scene Change: Herod’s Rhetorical Veil Exposed: He Learns of the Magi’s Deception; His Chronic Bitterness Billows into Explosive Anger, Orders Hit Squad to Slaughter the Innocents of Bethlehem; Effort to Assassinate Jesus Violates Invisible War’s Rules of Engagement, Matt 2:16 TG09-73 May 23, 2010 View Class Herod’s Explosive Anger & the Release of His Assassins; Apostello: Those Who Give Orders & Those that Carry Them Out are Equally Guilty; the “Slaughter of the Innocents,” Herod’s Grotesque Death-Shadowed Valley, Matt 2:16; Fulfillment of Jeremiah’s Prophecy: Rachel Weeps for the Slaughter of Innocents by Nebuchadnezzar, Jer 31:15, & by Herod, Matt 2:17–18 TG09-74 May 23, 2010 View Class The Death of Herod and Return to Israel: Recalculating the Date of Herod’s Death: W. 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Filmer, David Beyer, & Jack Finegan from Josephus’s Antiquities pre 1544, Matt 2:19; Clues to When the Holy Family Left Egypt for Israel, Luke 2:39–43 TG09-75 May 30, 2010 View Class Gabriel Orders Joseph to Return to Israel, Matt 2:20; Joseph Immediately Responds: He Follows the Coastal Route Back to Gaza, v. 21; News that Archelaus Rules Judea Makes Joseph Hesitate to Go There, v. 22a; Augustus Makes Archelaus Ethnarch TG09-76 June 6, 2010 View Class The Life & Crimes of Archelaus; His Banishment to France; Joseph Hesitates to Return to Bethlehem & His Fourth Dream: Go to Galilee, Matt 2:22; the Philology of “Nazareth”: Jesus Is the Branch, Isa 11:1; Matt 2:23 TG09-77 June 6, 2010 View Class Timeline from the Lord’s Birth to Settling in Nazareth: Tracking the Scribal Error in Josephus’s Antiquities; Herod died in 1 B.C.; Jesus Was 10-months Old on His Arrival in Nazareth, Luke 2:39–43; Jesus at Age 12: Discusses Doctrine with the Rabbis, vv. 46–47; Mary’s Anxiety over Jesus’ Absence, vv. 48–49 TG09-78 June 13, 2010 View Class The Boy Jesus Asserts His Undiminished Deity in Response to His Anxious Mother’s Concern, Luke 2:49; He Places Himself in Continuous Subordination to Joseph & Mary, v. 51; the Hypostatic Union Defined TG09-79 June 13, 2010 View Class Introduction to the Doctrine of Kenosis: The True Humanity of Christ Could Not Rely on His Divine Attributes in the Execution of the Prototype Plan; Definition of Kenoo; the Doctrine of Kenosis: “Keep on thinking this”; the Mind-set of Jesus, Phil 2:1–4 TG09-80 June 20, 2010 View Class Review: “Keep on thinking this.” Phil 2:1–5a; You Cannot Think What You Do Not Have in Your Soul; Good Decisions Are Based on Resident Doctrine, Habitual Recall, & Consistent Application TG09-81 June 20, 2010 View Class Spiritual Combat: The Dark Side v. the Light; Ignorance of Truth Gives False Teachers the Advantage; Doctrine Is the Antidote, Phil 2:5; the Deity of Christ: He Does Not Use Divine Attributes in the Prototype System, v. 6 TG09-82 June 27, 2010 View Class The Humility of Christ in Agreeing to Add to His Person the Essence of True Humanity, Phil 2:6b; the Hypostatic Union Defined; Nonuse of Divine Attributes in the Prototype Spiritual Life Imperative for Our Salvation, v. 7a TG09-83 June 27, 2010 View Class The Prototype Divine Dynasphere; the Great Power Experiment: Can Jesus Remain Sinless without Use of His Divine Attributes? False Definitions of the Hypostatic Union; Impeccability Confirmed by the Resurrection TG09-84 July 11, 2010 View Class The Prototype Divine Dynasphere: Hypostatic Union, Rom 1:3–4; Eph 1:19–20; the Necessity for Kenosis During the Incarnation; the Lord’s Sovereign Decision to Deprive Himself of the Use of Divine Attributes; Phil 2:7; Kenosis Illustrated TG09-85 July 11, 2010 View Class The Lord Takes on the Status of a Bondservant by Taking of True Humanity, Phil 2:7; the Development of the Doctrine of the Hypostatic Union: the Church Councils & the Creed of the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) TG09-86 July 18, 2010 View Class Doctrine of the Humiliation of Christ: The Concept of Humiliation: an Anthropopathism; Kenosis: Restriction of Independent Use of Divine Attributes; the Imperfection of Man Demands a Divine Solution: Christ Our Mediator; the Glorification of Jesus at Session, John 7:38–39; Acts 3:13 TG09-87 July 18, 2010 View Class Eight Problem-Solving Devices in the Prototype; Posse non Peccare: Able not to Sin: Jesus’ Volition Vulnerable to Temptation; Kenosis & Evidence Testing: Doctrine Provided Effective Defense, Matt 4:1–4 TG09-88 July 25, 2010 View Class General Characteristics of the Divine Dynasphere: (1) Purpose: Glorify Christ, (2) Objective: Spiritual Maturity, (3) Policy: Grace, (4) Protocol: Obedience, (5) System: Virtue First TG09-89 July 25, 2010 View Class General Characteristics of the Divine Dynasphere: (6) Point of Reference: the Love of God, (7) Authority: the Word of God, (8) Result: Personal Sense of Destiny, & (9) an Enemy: Cosmos Diabolicus TG09-90 August 1, 2010 View Class Kenosis Demands the Lord Grow in Grace in His True Humanity; His Humiliation: Becoming a Bondslave; Trichotomous at Physical Birth: Body, Heb 10:5, Soul, Isa 53:11, & Spirit, Isa 11:1–2; Luke 23:46 TG09-91 August 1, 2010 View Class Physical Illustrations of Hupostasis: Light: Particles & Waves & Oil & Vinegar; Kenosis Defined; Shekinah Glory Disclosed, Matt 17:1–2; Glory Unveiled Permanently at the Session, Heb 1:2–3; Function of the Hypostatic Union During the Incarnation TG09-92 August 8, 2010 View Class Jesus: Non Posse Peccare; God Tests but Does Not Tempt; Christ Was Tempted by the Devil & the World but Did Not Sin, Heb 4:15; the Soul’s Ménage à Trois in James 1:13–15 TG09-93 August 8, 2010 View Class Jesus’ Appearance Considered as a Man by the Romans, Phil 2:8; His Humiliation on the Cross: Details on Crucifixion, Imputation of Our Sins & Their Judgment, & Loss of Fellowship with the Father, Matt 27:46; Isa 53:12; 1 Pet 2:24; By His Wounds We are Healed, Isa 53:5; Unity in the Church, Phil 2:1–5 TG09-94 August 22, 2010 View Class Review of Philippians 2:1–8; the Humiliation of Christ: Obedience to the Salvation Plan of God inside the Prototype, v. 8b; E–mail from a Dorito TG09-95 August 22, 2010 View Class Kenosis Required the Lord’s Obedience to Be Learned inside the Prototype, Heb 5:8; Glory Veiled & Glory Restored, John 17:5; Necessity for the Humanity of Christ: (1) to Be Our Savior, (2) to Be Our Mediator, (3) to Be Our High Priest TG09-96 August 29, 2010 View Class Necessity for the Humanity of Christ: (4) to Be the Son of David; the Two Genealogies: Joseph’s in Matt 1, Mary’s in Luke 3; Prophecies of the Line of Christ through Abraham, Judah, & David; Definitions: Hypostatic Union & Kenosis; The Silent Years: Conjecture; “Proof” Passages: Maybe, Maybe Not: Luke 4:16, 22; Matt 54–56 TG09-97 August 29, 2010 View Class “Proof” Passages: Maybe, Maybe Not: Jesus in Nazareth, Matt 13:57–58; John the Baptist, Mal 3:1 cf. John 1:15, 23, 30–31, 33–34; Philip & Nathanael, John 1:44–48 TG09-98 September 5, 2010 View Class The Silent Years: About Glastonbury: Joseph of Arimathea in Glastonbury: Source Articles: The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1926; The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1979; The Leading Facts of English History, 1923; The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, 1956; The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible, 2001; The Traditions of Glastonbury, 1982 TG09-99 September 5, 2010 View Class The Silent Years: Joseph of Arimathea: The Biblical Perspective: Claims the Body of Jesus; Removes Remains from the Cross; Prepares for Burial with Nicodemus; Inters in His Own Tomb, Matt 27:57–60; Mark 15:43–46; Luke 23:50–53; John 19:38–42; Joseph of Arimathea: The Secular Perspective: Talmud: Joseph Was Mary’s Uncle & Her Protector Once Widowed; Biblical Definition of a Widow, 1 Tim 5:3–4, 9 TG09-100 September 12, 2010 View Class Joseph of Arimathea: The Secular Perspective: Documentation of Rome’s Tin Supply in England; First-Century Sea Routes; Joseph Was a Metals Merchant for Rome; The Traditions: The Harlein Collection: Jesus at Cornwall: Jesus’ Well, Place Manor Church, & Tunic Crosses TG09-101 September 12, 2010 View Class The Traditions: Jesus at Avalon, aka Glastonbury: Jesus’ Wattle House; Ten References He Built the Church in Avalon: Domus Dei; The Education of Messiah: Evidences of Higher Education Available in England; His Speaking Skills Different from that Taught the Rabbis; The Tradition Continues: William Blake’s “Jerusalem,” Its Performance at Last Night of the Proms: London, 1994