Acts 13:1 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch and Saul.

Acts 13:2 As they ministered the ways of God and fasted, the Holy Ghost said.(how?), Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

Acts 13:3,4 And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them.(Acts 8:14-17), they sent them away. So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

Acts 13:5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of Judaism and they had also John.(this John was John Mark, who wrote the book of Mark).to their minister.(that is, was helping them; was of service to them; was assistant to the others)

Acts 13:6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Judean, whose name was BarEmmanuel,

There were two categories of people here. Those that came from Judah and those that adopted Judaism long after so they could hide within by calling themselves a new name 'the Jew' and continue to do evil, no one finding their true identity:.Revelation 3:9 "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are of the ancestry of Judah and are not, but do lie.(telling the exact truth is impossible for these inveterate liars, all those influenced by Satan's dark side minions are the same:.2Corinthians 11:13).saying they are and calling themselves Jews. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet and to know that I have loved you.".These are known today as the Khazarian.mafia and Askenazi, a line having come through ancient Cain down and through Esau and Esau's descendants. God had both Esau and Jacob specifically born. Esau's purpose was to keep his brother Jacob and his descendants in line, that is, God provided by creating Esau to be an antagonist of Jacob's line, right up to and including today. We just have to choose trusting God, that all He does is good.ultimately.

Who are these evil ones today? Why has God used them throughout history in 'kicking' Jacob's descendants back onto the right path? God's chosen people were Jacob and his line of descent up to today. They were never a cruel, warlike people, as Esau was and as such those of Jacob avoided conflict as much as possible:.Romans 12:18. Those of the Jacob line do so today by easily complying, for example, with the covid con's idiotic and satanically evil authoritarian pronouncements. But these generally good hearted people who just wanted to be left alone to live their lives, had long ago drifted away from God. They needed to be alerted to this and awakened to why evils were affecting them, so that something could be done about their drifting from God. They needed some impetus in turning them around to the good way God wanted for them. And so that's the reason for Esau and his posterity, right up to and including today. And this will continue until Jacob's descendants today (who have no idea who they today are) wake up. There is one way to awaken them that you can pray and meditate about to have effect in the lives of those you love:.2Corinthians 3:16. Once the chosen people of God today, the Jacob line, return to God, God will deal with the Esau line as He said He would.

From the details on the Esau/Edom and Jacob subject: Khazars, aka Kazars, were a nomadic people who had no traces of Hebraic culture. They had been following a pagan and sex oriented religion and had embraced Judaism in 740 A.D. as a cover for their monstrous deeds, while rejecting Christianity and Mohammedism. Anything to do with the true God of all creation was hateful to them and being satanic they were and still are out to stamp it out.

Acts 13:7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus.(Sergius was proconsul or deputy of Cyprus), a prudent man, who called for Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the word of God. 

Acts 13:8 But Elymas the sorcerer, for so is his name.(the one and same individual as in verse 6 above).by interpretation, withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith..(BarEmmanuel the sorcerer was with the retinue of Sergius Paulus who was seeking the truth of God from the apostles {verse 2} who were on the island of Cyprus at this time)

Comprised with.Adam Clarke's Commentary:.The word 'Elymas' is the interpretation of the word 'sorcerer', not of the word 'BarEmmanuel' (verse 6) as some have imagined. Elymas simply means here in this passage that this man BarEmmanuel was a sorcerer. How is 'Elymas' the interpretation of the word 'magician' or 'sorcerer'? Both names are Asiatic, but neither Hebrew nor Greek. The word 'mogh' in Persian means an idolater, a worshipper of fire and sometimes what we term a 'magician'. The word 'Elymas' is from the Arabic 'ilm' meaning 'knowledge', 'science', 'doctrine', 'art' and from the original word 'alama', meaning 'wise', 'skilled', etc., hence the Persian term 'aleem' or 'alymon', a 'doctor' or 'learned man' and, the Greek word for 'Elymas' comes from the interpretation of the Persian word 'mogh'. In Greek it's 'magos', meaning a 'magician', a 'wise man', 'doctor', etc.

Acts 13:9 Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.

Acts 13:10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of God?

John 8:44. And true of the cabal today.

Acts 13:11,12 And now, behold, the hand of God is upon you and you'll be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand. Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of God.

Acts 13:13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John.(Acts 12:25).departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

Acts 13:14,15 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and sat down. And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, You men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

Acts 13:16 Then Paul stood up and beckoning.with his hand said, Men of Israel and you that fear God, give audience.

Acts 13:17-20 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt and with an high arm brought he them out of it. And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan.(Canaan), he divided their land to them by lot. And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

Acts 13:21 And afterward they desired a king and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

Overall, David was a man in alignment with the high consciousness of God.

Acts 13:23 Of this man's.(verse 22 above).seed has God according to his promise raised unto Israel.(who is 'Israel' today?).a Saviour, Emmanuel;

A savior is one who saves.

Acts 13:24-28 When John had first preached before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think you that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose. Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham and whosoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they of Pilate that he should be slain.

Acts 13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulchre.

Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead.

Acts 13:31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

Acts 13:32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 

Acts 13:33 God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Emmanuel again, as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.

Acts 13:33 God has fulfilled the same unto us their children.(Galatians 3:29), in that he has raised up Emmanuel again.(original for 'raised up' is 'caused to arise', that is, Christ arose by first being in the Father {John 14:10; 1John 2:24} and arose once more and went to the Father:.John 16:28), as it is also written in the second psalm.(Psalms 2:7), You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.(Luke 1:35).

Acts 13:34,35 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he said also in another psalm, You shall not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep.(?).and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

Acts 13:37 But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.

Christ would never again be human. Once was enough:.1Peter 3:18.

Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins.(*).

Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe.(To believe one has to have progressed somewhat in interest in spiritual concerns. This is called awakening).are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
 

....continues with Chapter 13, verse 40

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