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13. "Bitner" in the Greek NT Lexicon(87)
Speaking of eating, it turns out that the Greek spelling of "Bitner" (bit: past tense of bite), which is President Hinckley's middle name, comes in a context that repeats the above concepts nearly verbatim. I stumbled onto this today (3/26/97) when looking up the number of a friend's address, having recorded the above yesterday.
The double-underlined words indicate identical wording from the above chiasm. This irrefutable connection not only supplies yet one more evidence for the role of Gordon B. Hinckley. It also validates the surprising message of the chiasm regarding the negative temporal and spiritual role that our unnecessary indulgence in animal flesh has had.
977 x bibrosko: To eat [4156]. Deriv.: (1033), meat [4156], food; (4598), moth-eaten; (4662), eaten by worms. Syn.: (2880), to satiate, satisfy [4140] with food, be filled [4140].(88)
979 bios: Life, but not as in zoe (2222), in which is meant the element or principle of the spirit and soul [4151]. Diriv.: (980), to live, to pass one's life without reference to its quality. Syn.: with the meaning of goods, wealth [4154-9];(89) (4632), primarily a vessel [4142-3], but also goods; (5590), with the meaning of natural life, breath [4154](90) of life [4151].
980 bioo: To live. Syn. (5225), to be in existence. Ant.: (599) to die [D&C 85:8].
--> Bitner.
981 biosis: Life, the way in which one lives.
982 biotikos: Pertaining to this life.
983 blaberos: Hurtful, noxious. Syn.: bad, wicked, injurious. [Isa. 9:16.]
984 blapto: Hurt, weaken, impede [hinder]; Syn.: (2690), to turn upside down, overthrow; (5351), to wither, corrupt, ruin; (1311), to destroy, corrupt completely. Ant.: (5339), to treat leniently, spare; (5431), to care for. [Ezek. 34.]
985 blastano: To germinate, put forth. Syn.: (393), arise, spring up, grow. Ant.: (2049), to desolate, bring to nothing.
987 µ blasphemeo: To blaspheme,(91) revile. To hurt the reputation or smite with reports or words, speak evil of, slander, rail. To speak with impious irreverence concerning God Himself or what stands in some particular relation to Him [2 Thes. 2:3,4]. Reviling against the Holy Spirit (Mark 3:29 [also D&C 76:31-37,43-48]).
988 µ blasphemia: Blasphemy, verbal abuse against someone which denotes the very worst type of slander. Syn.: (2636), evil speaking, backbiting; (3059), abuse, railing, reviling; (570), unbelief; (763), impiety; (5196), insult, hurt reproach; (1426), defamation.
989 µ blasphemos: To be abusive, reviling, destroying one's good name.
You can imagine how sobering it is for me writing this treatise about the anti-Christ when I come upon words such as this. Introspection asks me if I am guilty of the very things of which I am purporting others to be guilty. This whole document has been devoted to considering one individual in particular (though we all have our self analysis to make in this process), looking at various aspects, especially his name, and setting forth that these things reveal his identity as the nascent anti-Christ.
I am certain that I will be accused of being the one who is being blasphemous. Such has been my lot since I departed from the path of mainstreamism (in a day of Satan's power when the mainstream does his bidding). And such will yet be my lot as this document goes into circulation.
The question I have to ask myself, is whether or not I am guilty of this sin. My keen sense of inadequacy replies that to a certain extent I am not free of sin in this regard.
The next question is whether or not it is my place, seeing as I am not perfect myself, to take the role of one who reveals the anti-Christ. That answer to that question is also negative. In and of myself, I am not in a position to do this. That is what I was trying to say in the very beginning of this piece.
I am not the one making the accusations or doing the exposing. The revelation is not mine. It has been recorded in the most sacred writings of man since the dawning of time, and has come to maturation in this day that these things are to be fulfilled.(92)
I only happen to have noticed it through the superintending hand of God. And hopefully as I set these things forth, dusting them off, it will be clear that anyone could have noticed it -- and anyone can see it now, for it has been hidden all along in plain sight. Now that attention has been drawn to it, my personal role become insignificant, for now anyone can behold to their own satisfaction.
No, the revelation is not mine. The accusations are not mine. I am not the judge. God is. God spoke the word, and great were the company of angels that published it. If anyone speak against these things, they speak not against me but against God. The interpretations I take responsibility for. Those are debatable. But the evidences themselves are clear for all to see and not deny except to their condemnation. If they will receive it, as anything else presented by the grace of God, they will be blessed and made to prosper in the ways of righteousness.
As evidence of this point, the next set of words in this series surrounding the Greek spelling of "Bitner" have to do with seeing.
990 µµ blemma: The act of seeing or the object seen. Syn.: (2335), spectatorship, a spectacle, sight, with the sense of amazement thus making it a gaze [3 Ne. 21:8,9; Isa. 52:15]; (3705), that which is seen, a spectacle, sight, vision.
991 blepo: (I) To see. (A) the faculty of sight. (B) To perceive as with the eyes meaning to discern, to understand. (C) Metaphorically to perceive with the mind. (II) To look, behold. Deriv.: (308), to look up, and when spoken of the blind, to receive their sight; (578), to look away from all else and toward one object, to look steadfastly; (1227), to see clearly or to see through; (1689), to look earnestly, with the object of learning lessons of faith from. Syn.: (2734), to look in a mirror; (872), to look away from one thing so as to see another; (4337), to pay attention to, beware; (5442), to guard, watch; (4648), to take heed.
Hence,
992 bleteos: (A verb implying necessity, propriety), to be put (Mark 2:22).(93)
933 Boanerges: (transliterated from the Chaldean ben (1123), son and regesh (7285), tumult, thunder [D&C 85:8 "lighting"]). Boanerges, meaning sons of thunder. It was a name given to James and John implying that they would be powerful instruments accomplishing mighty things for God by persevering in their inspired preaching and miraculous powers in spite of all opposition.
With all these things in mind, let's back up now to look at a couple of words prior to where we began, before the insertion point of the name, "Bitner."
976 biblos: Paper made from Egyptian papyrus. A roll, volume, scroll, i.e., a book. Spoken of a genealogical table or catalog [D&C 85:9 "book of remembrance"]. The phrase, "the book of life (biblos tes zoes)" is equal...to the book of the living ones, where God is shown as having the names of the righteous who are to inherit eternal life inscribed in a book. Different from this is the book in which God has from eternity inscribed the destinies of men (Ps. 139:16)(94).
And before that, the interchangeable word:
975 biblion: A roll, volume, as was the form of ancient books. Letters or epistles; documents; Mosaic Law or Pentateuch; the Book of Life. Biblion is used interchangeably with bublos (976) in reference to the Book of Life, the book where the names of those who believe on the Lord Jesus will be recorded.(95) Because of God's omniscience, they are said to have been written before the foundation of the world (Rev. 17:8). This indicates that they were written at a certain time by God Himself or Christ, and they are still there and no one can erase them...
...except they blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, in which case they are blotted out, becoming sons of perdition; for they choose to worship man more than God when once they have been established on the foundation of God. (See D&C 76:31-37,43-48.)
Therefore, part of "overcoming," once having entered the path, is passing this test of proving where our true devotion is rooted. Hence, "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels." (Rev. 3:5.)
Zodhiates' commentary accurately notes:
In Rev. 13:8 only those whose names [are] not written in the Book of Life will bow and worship the Anti-Christ. In Rev. 17:8, it is stated that the saints of the Tribulation whose names are written in the Book of Life will not bow down to the beast.
No one, however, whose name is not written in the Book of Life has entrance into the eternal heaven which is also called the Holy City in Rev. 22:19.
No one writes his own name. It is written by God himself. "And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." (John 10:28.)
This word, #975, is the address number of my friend(96) I was looking up today when I discovered the significance of this series of words. If an entry such as this in the lexicons or dictionaries means anything, he ought to fare well in the days ahead. Truly, I have found him to be one of the most zealous for the kingdom. He has played a significant role in my life in helping me to understand the plain and simple doctrine of Christ, with a profound emphasis on the grace of God and His righteousness -- an aspect of rudimentary understanding that has been all but lost in the corrupted culture of Mormonism.
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Endnotes
87. 87 Zodhiates.
88. 88 4156 and 4140 are both element B of the chiasm.
89. 89 4151 and 4145-9 are both element E of the chiasm.
90. 90 4142-3 and 4154 are from element D of the chiasm. 4154 includes the Deriv.: "breathe."
91. 91 Blasphemy: Religious: "You...have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house." (D&C 112:26; also Rev. 2:9.) Political: "They that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed." (Isa. 52:5; also Rev. 13:5,6.)
92. 92 "Before they spring forth I tell you of them." (Isa. 42:9.)
93. 93 Mark 2:22, "No man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles."
94. 94 Psalms 139:16, "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all (my members) were written, (which) in continuance were fashioned, when (as yet there was) none of them." Parenthesis indicate words added by King James translators.
95. 95 Written in the Book of Life: Having come in at the gate, having come forth with broken hearts and contrite spirits, being baptized with water and with fire and with the Holy Ghost; thus being established on the rock of Jesus Christ -- the only sure foundation.
96. 96 Mark Thomase, 975 Westview. In Hebrew, word #975 is, , watch-tower. The words before and after it mean "to prove, examine, try, search out."
