Wir lesen als Gruppe jedes Jahr einmal chronologisch die Bibel und fangen mit 1. Mose an und hören mit der Offenbarung auf - mach doch mit
warum ihr beim Lesen der älteren Kommentare (bis 2013) den Eindruck habt, dass wir Zeugen Jehovas sind, erkläre ich hier ausführlich. Nur ganz kurz: NEIN, wir sind keine ZJ, sondern einfach nur Christen – ohne irgendeine Konfession, Dachverband oder Organisation über uns – die für Gott und sein Wort brennen und sich gerne mit anderen darüber unterhalten und austauschen
Hier findest du die Daten zu unseren Treffen
… ist es, Menschen die Gott noch nicht kennen, zu ihm zu führen und mit seinem Wort bekannt zu machen; andere mit unserer Begeisterung für Gott und sein Wort anzustecken; einander zu ermuntern, im Glauben zu bleiben und zu wachsen; und einander zu helfen, ein ganz persönliches Verhältnis zum Schöpfer zu entwickeln, zu bewahren und zu vertiefen.
Wir betrachten die ganze Bibel als Gottes Wort und sie hat für uns oberste Autorität. Wir vertreten keine bestimmte Lehrmeinung, sondern beziehen auch gerne andere Meinungen und Auslegungen mit ein, denn jeder sollte sich selbst anhand der Bibel ein Bild machen
Bitte „entschuldigt“, aber Arnold Fruchtenbaum – ein Jude, der zu Christus gefunden hat, benutzt (ebenso wie die unrevidierte Elberfelder 1905) diesen Namen als Name Gottes und er hatte auch in einem Seminar mal erklärt, warum:
Auch wenn wir aufgrund der Schreibart der Juden nicht genau wissen, wie der Name früher ausgesprochen wurde (die Juden selbst sprechen ihn überhaupt nicht aus), so wissen wir doch, dass die meisten Namen der Bibel, die ein „Je“ drin haben, von dem Namen Gottes abgeleitet sind, wie zum.B. Jesus, Jesaja, Jeremia – um nur einige zu nennen
Viele sprechen den Namen heute gar nicht mehr aus, das HERR hat den Gottes Namen in der Bibel ersetzt. Die meisten Übersetzer, die den Namen drin gelassen haben, übersetzen ihn mit Jahwe. Der Name Jehova wird sehr ungern benutzt, da er an die Zeugen Jehovas erinnert…
Wichtig ist, dass der Name überhaupt benutzt wird, wir werden es unter anderem auch bei den 10 Plagen noch sehen. Es steht dir also frei, Jahwe oder Jehova zu sagen.
Wir benutzen wie Arnold Fruchtenbaum den Namen Jehova – aus den selben Gründen
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Good Old Fashioned Hand Written Code by Eric J. Schwarz
“Who can endure the day of His coming,
and who can stand when He appears?”
Malachi 3:2
The question itself carries weight.
It assumes that the coming of the Lord
is not a gentle interruption of ordinary life.
It is not ornamental or merely reassuring.
It is an event that presses upon those who witness it,
an arrival that exposes rather than decorates.
The prophet reaches for an image his audience
would definitely have understood deeply.
He said that the Lord will be like a refiner’s fire.
For context, the ancient world,
refining was a skilled and deliberate craft.
Fire was not used recklessly.
Gold and silver were placed into heat
not because they were expendable,
but because they were precious.
The refiner’s task was not to destroy
the metal but to make it truly itself.
Too little heat accomplished nothing.
Too much heat ruined what could not be replaced.
The fire had to be measured, sustained, and carefully watched.
As the metal was heated, impurities that
had been mixed in over time and rose to the surface.
What did not belong separated itself from what did.
The fire did not create the impurity, it revealed it.
What had long been hidden becomes
visible under the pressure of heat.
So, refining, then, was never about rejection.
It was about distinction, between what
was genuine and what could not remain.
Malachi is careful to say where this refining work begins.
“He will purify the sons of Levi” (Malachi 3:3).
The fire does not start with the nations
or with those clearly outside the covenant.
It begins with those closest to the altar,
those entrusted with worship,
instruction, and representation.
In Israel’s life, the priests stood
nearest to the holy things of God.
If worship was to be restored,
it could not begin by bypassing them.
Worship cannot be renewed if the worshipers
themselves remain untouched.
This refining is judgment, but it is not abandonment.
It is a judgment aimed toward restoration.
Malachi says the purpose of this purification
is “so that they may bring offerings in righteousness.”
The fire is not an end in itself.
Pain is not the goal. Purity is.
Exposure is not meant for
humiliation but for healing.
The refining fire exists because
God intends worship to be real again,
not just as if it’s routine or duty.
By Malachi’s time, the people had grown
accustomed to diminished reverence.
Sacrifices were still offered,
but without honor.
God’s name was spoken, but without weight.
The forms of worship remained,
yet the heart of it had thinned.
The refiner’s fire confronts this kind of faith
not by removing the altar, but by cleansing it.
Not by ending worship, but by making it truthful again.
When the Gospels open,
this promise begins to take shape.
The Messiah does not arrive
surrounded by visible flames,
yet His presence burns just as deeply.
He exposes motives, unsettles comfortable religion,
and confronts hypocrisy that had
learned how to hide behind piety.
At the same time, He heals, restores, and forgives.
His fire does not consume people,
it consumes what keeps them from God.
The refining work is often uncomfortable
because it does not stop at behavior.
It reaches into the heart. It lingers.
It presses. It refuses to rush
what must be made whole.
Malachi’s image reminds us that
God’s holiness is not opposed to His mercy.
The same fire that reveals impurity
is the fire that preserves what is true.
The Lord refines because He intends
to dwell among His people.
He cleanses because He desires
nearness, not distance.
So when Malachi asks,
“Who can stand when He appears?”
the answer is not those who are already pure.
Scripture never suggests that.
The answer is those willing to be refined.
Those who trust the hands that control the fire.
Those who believe that what God removes
was never meant to remain.
The refiner’s fire does not destroy faith.
It prepares it, until what remains is able
to stand in the presence of a holy God.
Ultimately, Malachi’s refiner finds
His fulfillment in Christ.
He is the one who comes near
without destroying, and the one
who carries holiness without
withdrawing mercy.
In His life and ministry,
we see the refiner at work,
not standing far from the fire,
but entering fully into human weakness,
bearing its heat Himself.
On the cross, judgment and mercy meet,
not to abandon sinners but to make
true worship possible again.
Christ does not refine us from a distance.
He refines by dwelling among us,
by giving Himself, and by remaining faithful
until what stands before God is no longer
shaped by fear or pretense, but by grace made clean.