1st Century Drama Queen
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This novel of 126 pages opens with the letters of St Paul to the Corinthian saints, and folded in them is commentary which sets up mysterious contexts: and that holy literature mingled with man's inquiries leads to the life of a French lady - and it turns out that the drama of the Corinthian church was also found in the mind of that French woman many centuries later. Her carnal philosophy of brilliance was regenerated by her faith in Jesus Christ. And her testimony brought others into her mindset and, as a result, things were written which caused many in Christendom to take a look at the overreactions of the first century of the Christian era and the emotional intensity which grew out of it. And that experience is what forces us to see where we exaggerate and therefore seek attention, and then we find out if we must cry or laugh, and in the end we are faced with salvation or damnation.
Rhett Vorster
I was born in South Africa. I came to America as a baby. Dallas, Texas is my hometown, but I now live in Mexico. When I was 12, I was placed into the Masonic Home in Ft Worth - a boarding school, due to family turmoil. I graduated as valedictorian of my 1990 senior class. I am a US veteran. I write fiction, nonfiction and poetry - and I am also an artist. Jesus is my Lord and Savior. My wife Luz and I worship Christ as our God.
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1st Century Drama Queen - Rhett Vorster
Rhett Vorster
This novel was born in the rural town called Ponciano Arriaga,
in the state of San Luis Potosi,
in Mexico (June 2021)
Commentary sections will appear in
smaller font at certain points throughout this document.
This book is dedicated to my sister Lindsay
The Hebrew man who wrote letters to the Corinthians was known as Paul and Saul, and those with the guts to live on the edge of dialect called him Shaul. About a third of the worldwide church thinks his name change occurred when he was converted on the Damascus Road, when the Lord commissioned him to take the gospel to the Gentiles. And yet, at the time of Saul’s conversion, Jesus still addressed him as Saul. Later, Jesus told Ananias to find Saul in Damascus and restore his sight. The scroll called Acts goes on to describe Saul as increasing in spiritual strength. So, we see that it was not Jesus who changed his name on the road to Damascus. Another third of the global church believes that Saul’s name was also Paul because the custom of dual names was common in the first century of the Common Era. The mysterious scroll called Acts also describes the apostle as Saul, who was also called Paul
- and from that verse on, throughout the rest of the New Covenant, Saul is always referred to as Paul.
Paul was born in the Roman city of Tarsus. He started out with bad pride in his Israeli heritage, then ended up with good pride about it. The other third of the church scattered on our terrestrial ball states that he chose to use his Jewish name, Saul, until sometime after he began to believe in and preach about Christ, when he began to use his Roman name, Paul. It would make sense for Paul to use his Latin name as he traveled farther into the Gentile world. And it should be noted that Paul began using his Roman name on Cyprus when the Roman proconsul on that island was converted, during Paul’s first evangelistic journey: for that conversion involved a high-ranking, idolatrous Gentile coming to faith in Christ; the fact that the proconsul’s name was Sergius Paulus has convinced some to think that Saul took the name Paul as a reminder of this event.
But 97% of the Lord's church could agree that Paul using his Roman name was fitting for the man who proclaimed that he would become all things to all people. Adopting his Roman name would allow Paul to approach the Gentiles to whom he was sent and speak to them in their own language, becoming as one of them and calming their nerves. About 3% of Jesus' congregation says it is possible that Paul gave up the use of Saul, because of its majestic association to Israel's first king, Saul: suggesting that the apostle chose to use Paul because it means little
, for he desired to become smaller in order to present Christ as greater.
Paul is known for his 2 letters to the Corinthian Christians, but he mentioned a mysterious epistle which was written before 1 Corinthians, which epistle was obviously lost or not saved. Paul wrote to the Corinthians in Greek, and it has been translated into almost every language in the world.
The 1st Saved Letter to the Corinthian Church
The port city that needed to be humbled
This letter is from me, Saul, but the Gentiles call me Paul. I have been chosen by God's will to be an emissary of Messiah Yeshua. My brother Sosthenes helped me write this letter; but 100% of this letter's content is from my divine heart, which has been furnished by the Holy Ghost.
Since some of you may not know Hebrew, I must inform you that the term Baal is a very intimate Hebrew word meaning Lord
. So don't be deceived, because the world likes to pervert God's vocabulary: for as you can see, Baal is also used by the Devil's people to refer to false gods.
I am writing to you, Elohim's shul in Corinth, to you who have been called by God to be his own holy people, because I heard you - as a whole - have been acting like a 1st century drama queen! He made you sacred by means of Messiah, just as he did for all people everywhere who call on the name of Adonai, their Lord and ours.
May Elohim our Abba, and Baal Yeshua, give you favor and peace.
I always thank my Elohim for you and for the gracious presents he has given you, now that you belong to Messiah Jesus. Through him, Elohim has enriched your shul in every way - with all of your eloquent words and all of your knowledge. And so God confirmed our testimony about Jesus the Messiah among you. Now you have every spiritual present you need as you eagerly wait for the return of our Adonai, Jesus. He will keep you strong to the end so that you will be free from all blame on the day when our Blessed Baal Yeshua returns. God will do this, for he is faithful to do what he says, and he has invited you into partnership with his Son, Yeshua Christ our Blessed Baal.
I appeal to you, dear sisters and brothers, by the authority of our Adonai, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the shul, because it is a Messianic shul, our Holy Baal's knesset - not so much a legislative gathering, but an assembly which worships our Holy Baal through love. However, the Lord's knesset should be found writing laws for pagans to live by.
Rather, be of 1 mind, united in thought and purpose. For some members of Chloe's household have told me about your quarrels, my dear sisters and brothers: and be sure that there are only 2 genders in your vocabulary, because there are evil men and women existing today who call themselves social justice warriors - they ignore the first scroll of Moses' teaching and they insist on the existence of a third and fourth gender, which, if gone unchecked, will turn into an idea which will prevail into the 21st century of the Western world.
What is more, some of you are saying, 'I am Saul's follower.' Others are saying, 'I follow Apollos', or 'I follow Cephas,' or 'I follow Messiah only.'
Apollos is a shortened version of Apollonius. It is echoed in the halls of today's seminaries that he was a Hellenized Jewish Christian who hailed from Alexandria, which was the second largest city in the Roman Empire. He is famous for coming to Ephesus. Apollos was a learned man and an eloquent speaker. There are hints outside of Holy Writ that he was proficient in teaching wisdom in the symbolic style of Philo, who was a Hebrew philosopher living in Alexandria and a great intellectual teacher. Apollos came from an environment that was conducive to studying and learning the Scriptures. Alexandria had a library with over half a million scrolls, chief among them being the Septuagint.
Word on the street has it that Apollos was a commercial traveler who had a trade, which became his side hustle once God called him to come to Ephesus for the purpose of doing evangelistic work. Apollos' reputation initially was as a man who taught about Jesus accurately, but only knew of the immersion of John: that is, Apollos had not received the update concerning the salvation of Christ. But before the update, Apollos spoke boldly in the synagogue, just as the disciples had done.
Then Apollos felt his emotional ship had come in when he met Priscilla and Aquila, who heard him preaching and teaching there. When the godly couple learned that his information fell short, they thoroughly updated him: that is, they corrected his incomplete knowledge of Christian doctrine. They saw that Apollos was very teachable and willing to learn. Having this correct information increased his fervor, for he was of great help to those who by grace had believed.
His Alexandrian education heightened his skills as an evangelist. He had a special talent for debate and he vigorously refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. He became very popular in Ephesus, but after a time, he went to Corinth. He left just before Paul arrived in Ephesus. The holy brothers in Ephesus wrote letters of introduction for him for the Corinthian church. He was repeatedly introduced as a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures, having been instructed in the way of the Lord.
When people were lining up behind their favorite leaders, they seemed to be showing their shades in terms of social implications. Since Apollos hailed from Alexandria, he was deemed to have been well-versed in the arts of eloquence and argument. As a learned man, he was considered to be the sort of leader a cultured, wealthy individual might want to follow. Cephas was traditionally aligned with the Jewish Christians and could easily have been the leader of preference for those who were unwilling to totally depart from their Jewish heritage. Paul was highly favored by the Gentiles, partly because he had already made a name for himself .
The teacher asks questions
I have some questions for you:
Has Messiah been divided into sects?
Was I, Saul, crucified for you?
Were any of you immersed in the name of Saul?
Of course not! I thank Elohim that I did not baptize any of you except Gaius and Crispus, for now no one can say they were immersed in my name, and I would not dare shortchange anyone by merely sprinkling them - for I have heard sprinkling is one of those immature practices which have popped up in a so-called church at Rome.
Oh yes, I just remembered: I immersed the household of Stephanas, but I don't remember immersing anyone else.
For Messiah did not send me to baptize, but to preach the Good News - and not with clever speech, for fear that Jesus the Messiah's instrument of torture would lose its power.
The message of the execution stake is foolish to those who are headed for destruction. But we who are being redeemed know it is the very power of Elohim. As Holy Writ says, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.'
So where does this leave the philosophers like Aristotle, the scholars like Cicero, and the world's brilliant debaters like Plato? Elohim has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. Since the God of Israel, in his wisdom, saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. It is foolish to the Hebrews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to Hellenes, who seek human wisdom. So when we preach that the Anointed One was crucified, the Israelis are offended and the goyim say it is all nonsense.
Who exactly were Aristotle, Cicero and Plato?
Aristotle lived about 4 centuries before the apostle Paul and he set about to explore the natural world, and the Arabs called him 'The First Teacher': Aristotle's writings acted as the most important writings for those who did not see the importance of Hebrew Holy Writ - Aristotle taught that the universe is separated into the celestial region and the terrestrial region;
Cicero died about 50 years before Paul was born: Cicero was a lawyer by trade and is credited with turning Latin into a sophisticated language as well as explaining the development of his culture's constitution - his written work called On the Commonwealth gives an outline of Rome's history, puts forth on the role of justice in government, and discusses education;
Plato was the teacher of Aristotle and became famous for saying that the written word is inadequate, even though Plato did a lot of writing: and he went as far as to say that