ASTROPHE


 


ASTROPHE

 

Do you know what “astrophe” means?

Me neither... until a few nights ago when I heard it in a dream.

 

I tried looking it up my normal Greek and English dictionaries, but without success.

Everything kept referring me to “apostrophe”.

 

UGH!.

 

Finally, I found it!

…in an article about Greek Theater, Poetry, and Psalms…

And in a YouTube video.

 

The Psalms - as well as a lot of Greek plays - were written in prose form... or in song.

Each section or “phrase” of the song has a certain mood, tone, or message... with a specific motion, movement, or “dance” associated to it... directing the “chorus” or singers to turn [strophe] and move across the stage.

 

 As that idea or concept continues…

the direction of movement or dance DOES NOT CHANGE...

physically emphasizing the spoken word...

 

THAT’S ASTROPHE – no turning.

 

“…and God said, ‘Let there be light!’ …AND THERE WAS!” (Gen1:3) …from then on!

 

In HIM “there is NO VARIATION NOR SHADOW OF TURNING.” (Jas1:17)

 

Num23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie;

neither the son of man, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT

[Hebrew: HE will not change HIS mind or way of thinking]:

Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”

 

Isa55:11 “My word… shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

 

“ASTROPHE” was used in the YouTube video as: “the feeling of being stuck on Earth – EARTHBOUND.”

OR… you see all the stars of heaven… all the wonderful things of the universe… but it's all far off.

YOU FEEL bound to this Earth… to its natural laws and confines.

 

BUT… YOU ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD (Jn17:14)

 

You HAVE BEEN delivered from the power of darkness and translated into The Kingdom of God’s Son (Col1:12-13)

 

You USED TO BE enslaved… in bondage to the elements of this world… BUT NOW you are sons of God… seated in Christ at the right hand of the Father in Heavenly places (Gal4:3-7;Eph2:6)

 

Phil1:6 “…He who hath begun a good work in you…

WILL PERFORM IT!”


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