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The Inscrutable Question: Review of Eph 5:8-18; Summary of Time

9.	Let’s now go back to the beginning of our passage and note for the last time its corrected translation:
Ephesians 5:8 - You were formally darkness [ skÒtoj / skotos /: refers to one’s previous unregenerate status ], but now you are light in the Lord [ fîj / phos /: union with Christ as a new spiritual species ]; walk [ peripatšw / peripateo /: lifestyle produced by behavior patterns and character traits ] as children of light [ in wheel-tracks of righteousness ].
v. 9 - (Because the fruit of light [ karpÒj + fîj / karpos + phos /: production in the Christian walk from the source of divine viewpoint under the mentorship of the Holy Spirit ] is [ ellipsis: present active indicative of e„m… / eimi  ] produced in the sphere of goodness [ ¢gaqÒj / agathos /: the good; that which is profitable, beneficial, virtuous; the fulfillment of the plan of God ], and in the sphere of righteousness [ dikaiosÚnh / dikaiosune /: refers to the integrity of God or the love of God ], and in the sphere of truth [ ¢l»qeia / aletheia /: doctrine in the stream of consciousness ].)
v. 10 - Demonstrating what is acceptable or pleasing to the Lord.
v. 11 - Stop participating in the unfruitful deeds of darkness [ moral and immoral degeneracy expressed through human viewpoint, sin, wrongdoing, human good, and evil ] but instead expose them.
v. 12 - For it is a disgrace to speak about these things which are done by them in secret.
v. 13 - But all things are made known when they are being corrected by the light, for everything that is being taught is light.
v. 14 -	Therefore it [ the Scripture: in several quotes from Isaiah ] says, “Wake up, you Sleeper and stand up from the acts of carnal death and Christ will shine on you.”
v. 15 -	See to it, therefore, that you discern and understand how with due diligence you must walk accurately without deviation in wheel-tracks of righteousness, not as fools, but as wise men.
Ephesians 5:16 -	Keep on purchasing time because the days are evils [ infused with categories of evil ].
v. 17 -	Therefore, stop becoming fools but keep on gaining insight and comprehension of what the will, plan, and purpose of God is.
v. 18 -	Stop being intoxicated by wine which is dissipation but keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit [ or: keep on being controlled by the agency of the Holy Spirit ].
Summary:
1.	This passage has enabled us to examine the strange and abstract phenomenon called time, which was invented by our Lord when He created the universe.
2.	When Lucifer and his fallen angels were tried and convicted of rebellion against divine policy, Lucifer appealed the verdict and a new trial was granted.
3.	In order to carry out the second trial new witnesses were required and therefore mankind was brought into the courtroom to perform this function.
4.	When Jesus Christ created Adam and Ishah, He placed them into a limited environment of planet earth and through light granted them a mechanism to detect, organize, and harness the phenomenon of time.
Genesis 1:14 -	Then God said, “Let there be lights [ roam / maor / ] in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years
v. 15 -	and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
	5.	At their creation, Adam and Ishah were issued perfect life but this was quite different from that of the angels who at their creation were imputed eternal life.
	6.	When Adam and Ishah fell through original sin, they lost their perfect life and as a result were spiritually dead and totally depraved.
	7.	The resolution to this intractable problem was the redemption solution provided by Jesus Christ, Who presented the gospel to them in Eden.
	8.	Their belief in Jesus Christ as Redeemer afforded them new birth, the regeneration of their dormant human spirit, and enabled the Holy Spirit to impute to them eternal life.
9.	However, their destiny at that point was not to leave time and enter into eternity but rather remain in time and begin the process of becoming and procreating witnesses in the appeal trial of Satan.

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