In this edition of MZTV, not only will you learn what "to be on fire" specifically refers to (in 1 Corinthians 7:9), but you will learn the proper translation of 1 Corinthians 7:26. Where the KJV has "the present distress," the Concordant Literal New Testament (CLNT) has, "the present necessity." Wow, what a
difference. Instead of their being some first-century persecution underway causing Paul to dispense unnatural marriage advice, we discover "the present necessity" to be something far more common, simple, and timeless. You will not hear this interpretation anywhere else.
As a bonus, I share with you the very moment on August 17, 1969, when the
heavens convulsed and the earth followed suit—when the last shreds of innocence (albeit the liberated variety) appeared and then disappeared in the middle of a deep purple night. For those who were there, an era became bygone with the swish of chiffon and the angel-like whoosh of white leather fringe. A camera at the bottom of that hill (that rural New York farm-mound) caught the convulsion, backlit though it was, and set it to celluloid. Can you, a mere mortal, see the disappearing corona? It
surrounds Rose Stone, who is completely unaware of it. Yet when she and her family step off this plywood dais, the apocalyptic dawn is officially upon us.
