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  In this lesson, Dr. Blomberg discusses the verb tense used in the second half of each of these beatitudes. What did you learn from this exploration of the verb tenses? Did this shed any new light on your understanding of these beatitudes? Explain.

  Laila Oliveira replied 1 day, 22 hours ago 57 Members · 56 Replies

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  Brynn Jones

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  10/24/2023 at 15:07

  The poor in spirit are presently gaining the Kingdom of heaven, “on earth as it is in heaven.” This allows them to flourish in the present, to flourish through suffering.

  Those who mourn – future tense – their comfort will come when the kingdom is fully established.

  The meek – future tense – they will receive a double portion once the kingdom is established.

  Hunger/Thirst for righteousness – future – while the hunger is partially fulfilled through Jesus now, the full satisfaction will be filled in the future.

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  Sarah Walter

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  09/25/2023 at 13:58

  I have always understood these to be a future comfort or promise. We will not always have an immediate satisfaction for our mourning or humiliation. We must stand on the promise that God will do what He says in the end, when, in His time, He metes out justice and rewards His faithful.

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  Debra Groseclose

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  09/24/2023 at 16:43

  All who choose to follow God are not promised an easy life, but those who follow Him can be assured full and complete comfort, a heavenly inheritance when they get to heaven, or when Jesus raptures his church

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  Marcia Lowry

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  08/30/2023 at 22:33

  I’m assuming this question is regarding the word, “Blessed”. The verb tense is that of the present. And, to those He spoke of (poor in spirit, those who mourn, those who hunger…) he used the term “they shall be”, as if to say, now and to come.

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  JAMES JONES

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  08/18/2023 at 16:02

  The beatitudes can be partially fulfilled in this world, but filled completely in the next.

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