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Habakkuk 2:5 – Ep #7: Does Paul have insatiable desire as Saul to gather all nations like Messiah?

Jul 20, 2022

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Does Paul have insatiable desire as Saul to gather all nations to himself like a quasi-Messiah, and thus matches 3 more factors in Hab. 2:5?

Habakkuk 2:4-5 reads when one synthesizes KJV and JPS and show optoins of Sh's is either Shaul = Saul, or Sheol:

4 Behold, his soul which is [1] puffed up [JPS] is [2] not upright in him[self]: but [3] the righteous [JPS] shall live by his faith [fidelity –IB].

5 Yea also, because [4] a treacherous dealer [JPS] of wine; [5] he is a proud man, neither [6] keeps at home, who [7] enlarges his desire as SH’L – SAUL or SHEOL; and [8] is like death, and cannot be satisfied; but [9] gathers unto him[self] all nations, and heaps unto him[self] all people. (Hab. 2:4-5 KJV+JPS + SH’L Options.)

The words "desires all peoples" is a desire to rule over all peoples lke a Messiah.

Do we find this in Paul? Yes.

QUOTE OF ISAIAH 49.

Paul believes a verse in Isaiah 49 where Yahweh addresses the Messiah was spoken to Paul himself to tell him to be a light to the Gentiles, so as to be their salvation, thus justifying his desire for personal ambition over Gentiles: “For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, “I have set you to be a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.” (Acts 13:47 KJV)

Just prior to that, Paul and Barnabas “came to Antioch in Pisidia [Roman center of Galatia] and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day….” (Acts 13:14 KJV.)

Then we read; 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you [Jews of Antioch in Pisidia]: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

47 “For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, “I have set you to be a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.” (Acts 13:46-47 KJV)[Luke not present]

Blatant Anti-Semitism / Rude / Egotism –

Rejection by Jews of Paul’s message in a small rural town in Galatia deserves to bar preaching to all Jews: The passage reads in full:

46 Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, “It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you [Jews of Antioch of Pisidia per Acts 13:14]: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.” (Acts 13:46-47 KJV)(Luke not present until 16:10)

This explains why Acts 21:28 the “Jews of Asia” said Paul spoke against the “people.

The prophecy co-opted by Paul (and Barnabas), would never be haughtily misread by any Christian as a command to "us" to be the "light of the Gentiles“ in the Isaiah passage, because it was a prophecy spoken by YHWH to a single person called “in the womb” whom God would glorify and hence "make" a "light FOR the Gentiles“ – at the same time as this “servant’ reaches out to Jews. We read in Isaiah 49:6:

"It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth." (Isaiah 49:6 KJV.)

Isaiah 49:3 does refer to the addressee as “Israel” --- “You are My servant, O Israel.” However:

“Since the rest of the context of this chapter indicates that this passage speaks of the Messiah, it is best to regard Israel as a reference to the Messiah. How can the LORD speak of the Messiah as Israel? First, because the Messiah comes from Israel, and is a representative of the nation. Second, because the Messiah fulfills the name Israel, which means, ‘governed by God.’” David Guzik,“The Messiah’s Mission,” Enduring Word (7/2022)

Paul's self-aggrandizement is indirectly acknowledged in the evangalical modern classic by Bryan E. Beyer entitled Encountering The Book of Isaiah: A Historical and Theological Survey (Baker Academic, 2007) at page 195.

During the Apostle Paul's first missionary journey, he and Barnabas testified of Jesus to their audience at Antioch of Psidia. (Acts 13:14-50.) They cited themselves as the fulfillment of Isaiah 49:6; God had commissioned them as the light to the Gentiles (Acts 13:47.)

Thus both Paul and Barnabas depicted themselves as fulfilling a prophecy that directly dealt exclusively with the Messiah -- Jesus. This is nothing but arrogance.

VERSES WHERE PAUL SEES HIMSELF AS SUFFERING MESSIAH (ISAIAH 53)

Paul pridefully taught likewise about himself almost as if he, Paul, were the Messiah:

“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” (Galatians 6:14 KJV)

24 “Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.” (NIV)

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