Again, my many thanks to both the Author and the Publisher.John B.
Let this begin with a question:
1). What knowledge is unattainable by human wisdom?
Job 11:7 "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?"
Romans 11:30-36 " For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counselor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."
2) How only can we obtain the knowledge God has for us?
Deuteronomy 29:29 "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."
NOTE: Please let's all hold that the Bible is a book for everybody, in which God speaks for the purpose of being understood by everyone; that its language is conformed to the ordinary uses of speech; and that it is to be interpreted in the same common sense way in which we would interpret the will of deceased loved one, or to ascertain the meaning of a letter on business. It was not written to tax our ingenuity, or to test men's skill at learning exposition. Its design is to instruct, and in the most familiar way to express to mankind the mind and will of God
3) What confidence may we have in the knowledge which comes to us through the word of God?
Proverbs 22:20-21 "Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?"
Merle d'Aubigne' wrote this in his "History of the Reformation, Vol. 4.P.75. "There is no sure doctrine but such as is conformable to the word of god... This Word is the only truth; it is the sure rule of all doctrine and of all life, and can never fail or deceive us"
4) To a world alienated from the Word of God through sin, what assurance does the Holy Bible bring?
Romans 1:16 " For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
Note: This passage removes, or so should remove, any doubts, that the Bible is means for all of humanity Amen?
"The Word of God" by Raymond Irving Lindquist: "The Bible finds us where we are, and if, we permit, takes us where we ought to go.... What the Bible promises is fabulous but not a fable."
Charles Allen Dinsmore's "The English Bible as Literature". . The multitudes go to the bible, not for knowledge, but for power; they go to renew their sense of spiritual realities, and to catch again the vision of splendid. This book passes beyond a classic and becomes to men a word of God, because it voices those ultimate truths which gives meaning to life, and life its meaning. These truths are the truths upon which our faith rests, which bring comfort to our hearts, and keep burning the fires of hope. They areas final religion as the primary colors are to painting, or the line and circle to geometry. The men who first expressed them endeavored to state them in the fullness of power; they were passionately concerned to have these truths produce their full effect in reading men's minds and hearts. Pages 102-103..
5) What transformation is made possible through the Word?
1 Peter 1:23-25 "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you."
6) But...how does the Word bless the transformed life?
a) It gives understanding...... Psalms 119:130 "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple."
b). It keeps us from sin: Psalms 119:11 "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."
c). It guides in the way of life: Psalms 119:105 "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."
d). I builds: Acts 20:32 "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified."
e). It give us hope: Romans 15:4 "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Note: G.Ernest Wright. "The Christian Interpreter as Biblical Critic." Interpretation, vol.1, No.2, p.151. "The primary function of the Bible, then, is to serve as the spectacles which dispel the otherwise confused notions of God, and bring us to a clear perspective. As Calvin also knew, the Scripture as spectacles not only brings the true God into our sight but also enables us to see and to understand our selves, our true nature, and the nature of our history."
7). How completely does the Bible meet human needs?
2 Timothy 3:16-17 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
Note: Comments on 2 Timothy 3:17 by Albert Barnes: The object is not merely to convince and to convert him; it is to furnish all the instruction needful for his entire perfection.... [ needed for Heaven JB] There is no deficiency in the Bible for man, in any of the situations in which he may be placed in life; and the whole tendency of the book is to make him who will put himself fairly under its instruction, absolutely perfect!
8) What value, therefore does Job place upon the word?
Job 23:12 "Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food."
Note: John A. MacKay's "God Has Spoken" Theology today, vol 3.No. 2, p.145. "The Book that men most need to study is the Book of which they know little and understand less. that Book is the Holy Bible".
9). What supreme gifts come to us through the Word of God?
1 John 5:13 "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
2 Thessalonians 2:14 "Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ."
NOTE (JB) Without one's accepting and belief with honest faith in Jesus Christ, thus if one wants nothing to do with Jesus, and as HE is the Life, He removes his life sustaining force from you, because He loves you enough to give one their desire, meaning one will perish. How can this be put more plainly?
10). Where will the Bible lead those who take it as their guide?
Psalms 43:3 "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles."
Revelation 21:1-5 "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful."
NOTE(JB) at that point in time we shall see, with our own eyes, God powers at work as He re-created the garden of Eden again, but across this entire earth, AFTER the Lake of Fire has done its designed work, to purify the whole earth! It is the first and last time this fire shall be so used! Thus there is not, nor ever has been a burning hell, until that point in time, no man knows!
11). On the other hand, what dire results will follow its [the Bible] neglect?
Proverbs 13:13 "Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded."
FEARETH: is best used as REVERE, to be in awe of God's Law! For it is His glory His character!
12). What, then, should be our attitude to the word?
a. Seek after it!....Isaiah 34:16 "Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them."
b. Give it earnest heed.....Hebrews 2:1 " Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;"
c). Obey it......James 1:22 "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.""
Next: "How to understand Your Bible"
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
"THE BIBLE SPEAKS"-'CAN WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE' "?
MANY THANKS TO W.L. EMMERSON & PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING (JOHN B)
PP..27-33 of "THE BIBLE SPEAKS" book printed and copyrighted in 1949
1. What claim does the Psalmist make for the Scriptures?{all verses from the KJV}
Psalms 119:160 "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever."
Note: Many [(JB) especially the so-called highly educated ones}dispute this statement, declaring that they have discovered many historical facts, and geographical, chronological and scientific "Mistakes", in the scriptures. They contend that if the Bible is not accurate in details which can be tested by outside evidence it cannot be "Infallible" in its spiritual teaching..
NOTE (JB) Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Please know that for much of the 20th Century, the educated elites, used the Hittites, King David and many other Bible figures and locations , that archaeology had not yet found , as their reasoning for rejecting the whole bible! However is that not akin to denying the very existence of Mars because we know not all there to know about it?
All this proves is that Satan, is very adept to deceive men unto making huge mountains out of mole-hills! Especially of things that have nothing to do with our Salvation! Which is Satan's goal, after all, he ain't heaven bound, and wants all to join him in the Lake of fire of Revelation's ending chapters!
2) How important is it that we be certain as to the basis of our faith?
Psalms 11:2-3 "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
NOTE (JB) If the educated by men, draw YOU away from God's truth, what is left of your foundation of truth? The truth shall set you free, remember? John 8:31-32 " Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
3. So, why should a Christ man or woman know and understand the teachings of the Bible? {most study it not!]
1 Peter 3:15-16 " But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse "
4) To what does the Bible direct us to turn for evidence supporting the truth of God's love and power?
Job 12:7-8 " But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee"
NOTE (JB) In short, look to nature's interactions and interdependence, and see all the harmony.There are many plants, upon whom they fully rely upon a specific insect or bird, to fertilize it's seeds for the next generation, meaning that both had to be created, at the same time, for each other's continuity! Evolution cannot cover that picture, ever!
5) How do the Heavens witness to the Bible's revelation of God and of His power?
Psalms 19:1 <>" The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork."
NOTE(JB) How can anyone look up at the night sky, and think that all that order we can see, simply came from the "BIG-BANG's cataclysmic explosion? If this can be so, why have YOU, dear reader, not tossed a bundle of dynamite into a junk yard, in the hopes of it producing for you a brand new Cadillac? As one makes as much reason, as the other, right? I call this idea, "Organized Confusion!"
Sir James H. Jeans "EOS" p. 53. " Everything points with overwhelming force to a definite event, or series of events, of Creation at some time or times, not infinitely remote. The universe cannot have originated by mere chance out of its present ingredients, and neither can it have been always the same as now".
6) What witness do all created things give to their Maker and to the truth of the Bible record?
Romans 1:19-20 " Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"
NOTE(JB): To all those who think that they know more than God or that which is within His word, the Holy Bible-----
Romans 1:21-22 "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,"
NOTE(JB) God exists above and beyond both time and human science, after all I ask YOU. . . .who but God created the natural Laws men have found? The laws of gravity, speed of light, laws of motions, all had to be in-place and enforced by a POWER, to sustain all the planetary movements we can see and witness to! After all, "all movements will over time come to a stop, due to gravity, all heavenly bodies should by human thinking, of 15 billions of years of age, have come together into one huge conglomeration, YET have done so!
Sir John Herschal quoted by Howard A. Johnston in "Bible Criticism" and the Average Man" P.26: "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the sacred Scriptures."
Lords Calvin, quoted by Bernard Heywood's "This is our Faith" P.36. "Science is compelled to accept the idea of creative power".
Louis J.R. Agassiz, "Methods of Study in Natural History" 19th Ed., P. 14. "In our study of natural objects we are approaching the thoughts of the Creator, reading His conceptions, interpenetrating a system that is His and not ours."
NOTE(JB) Not all intellectuals are lost within themselves!
7) Mention some striking facts of the natural world which were actually anticipated in the Bible long before they were discovered by human science
.
A) Job 26:7 " He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."
Note: Earth's suspension in space came by Copernicus in 1543, it was not until the late 1920's that science found the expanding universe, yet Job wrote of both yet he lived in Median, the same place Moses lived, for 40 years, Job lived there during 1485 to 1445 B.C. SO UNLESS you have a time machine, how did Job know this unless told by The Creator God?
B). Job 28:24-25 " For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure."
Note: Galileo (1564-1642) was the first known to affirm that air had weight, when was human mathematics able to be used to estimate the the weight of earth's water? Only after satellite photographs was science able to calculate all earth's water quantity thus weight!
C). Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Note: Only in recent years has it been realized how important are the proportions and balance of the land masses and oceans on the earth's surface!
D) Hebrews 1:10-12 " And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They [ heaven and earth] shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."
Note: Not until the 20th Century [1900's] was the progressive aging and disintegration of matter by radioactivity discovered. nature is going down, [it's life-time as is ours, is limited b y God and sin] "The downward journey is easy, while the upward is either hard or impossible." Sir James H. Jeans, "The Universe Around Us." p. 306.
E) Leviticus 17:14 "For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off."
Note: The circulation and function of the blood was discovered by William Harvey in 1615. Yet Moses, wrote of it back in His day sometime,1400 years,before Christ!
NOTE(JB): Of the 1800 specific Prophecies in the Bible, more than 90% have come to pass and on time, so what thinking human being will know or think, that the last 10 % will not happen, and those that point to the the Times of the end? Please THINK! SELAH! In His Word are facts that deny both Atheism and pantheism alike! Yet one must study it, not just read it!
8). How have men spoken "to the earth", and what has it taught them?
Buried civilizations of past years have yielded their treasures to the spade of archaeologist, who have proven Davids existence and have found the Hittite empire! All of which the SCRIPTURE LAWYERS denied less than 100 years ago!
9). What are some striking examples of Bible facts once denied by the critics, but which have bee n completely confirmed by modern archaeological finds?
a) They declared that Abraham was a half-savage nomad quite incapable of the activities credited to him in the Biblical record. But in recent years it has been proved by Professor Leonard Wolley that a high state of civilization existed in the Near east long before the days of Abraham. This in his book UR OF THE CHALDEES [p123] and Charles Marston's "NEW BIBLE EVIDENCE,pp.88-123.
b) "They ridiculed the account of the capture of Jericho by Joshua until Professor J. Garstang of Liverpool University excavated the site and declared: "Set side by side with the Biblical narrative, the material evidence is seen to bear out in every essential detail the record of the capture and destruction of Jericho by the Israelites under Joshua". Quoted by D.E. Hart-Davis in "Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute: Vol. 67, p. 84.
c) They once denied the existence of the Hittites. But Professor A.H. Sayce of Cambridge proved the existence and extent of the Hittite Empire by excavating thousands of remains all over Asia Minor {Present Turkey} A.H. Sayce ""Monument Facts and Higher Critical Fallacies" and Sir Frederic Kenyon"s "The Bible and Archaeology" PP. 81-96.
d) They even denied that there ever was a king of Babylon called Belshazzar. Today more than five hundred fired clay tablets mentioning his name are known Read: "Nabonidus and Belshazzar" by R.P. Dougherty.
e) They even asserted that the Book of Acts was entirely untrustworthy in its history and geography. Sir William M. Ramsay, however, after years of travel in Asia Minor, conclusively declared: "You may press the words of Luke in a degree far beyond any other historians, and they stand the keenest scrutiny and the hardest treatment." "The New Testament in Light of Modern Research, P.166 Plus A.T. Robertson's "Luke the Historian".
NOTE(JB) In place of three quarters of a page of fine print allow me to state one obvious fact: "Just because some thing or some place mentioned, has not yet been found by Archaeology, does NOT mean it never existed! It ONLY means it has not yet been found!
10) In what Biblical terms may we therefore express our confidence in the trustworthiness and accuracy of the Scriptures?
Psalms 119:140 "Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it."
2 Timothy 3:16 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"
NOTE: Inspiration Greek is- theopneustos meaning Divinely breathed now look where else this very same, action is used
Genesis 2:7 "And the LORDhovah
> God <'elohiym> formed <yatsar> man <'adam> of the dust <`aphar> of the ground <'adamah>, and breathed <naphach> into his nostrils <'aph> the breath shamah > of life <chay>; and man <'adam> became a living <chay> soul <nephesh>."
BREATHED: in the Hebrew is Naphach to Blow, to breathe!Perhaps you'll note that a human's soul is NOT an add-on feature, but that all life that breathes and moves is a living soul, even a snail!
NOTE(JB) Today, there are few people, who having gone through schools, that know not about the ancient civilizations that were of old, What may be a surprise to many, is that men have not yet found anything within the Science of Archaeology, that DISPROVES anything within the Holy Bible, which is after the word of God Himself!
NEXT: "WHY WE NEED THE BIBLE".
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PP..27-33 of "THE BIBLE SPEAKS" book printed and copyrighted in 1949
1. What claim does the Psalmist make for the Scriptures?{all verses from the KJV}
Psalms 119:160 "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever."
Note: Many [(JB) especially the so-called highly educated ones}dispute this statement, declaring that they have discovered many historical facts, and geographical, chronological and scientific "Mistakes", in the scriptures. They contend that if the Bible is not accurate in details which can be tested by outside evidence it cannot be "Infallible" in its spiritual teaching..
NOTE (JB) Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Please know that for much of the 20th Century, the educated elites, used the Hittites, King David and many other Bible figures and locations , that archaeology had not yet found , as their reasoning for rejecting the whole bible! However is that not akin to denying the very existence of Mars because we know not all there to know about it?
All this proves is that Satan, is very adept to deceive men unto making huge mountains out of mole-hills! Especially of things that have nothing to do with our Salvation! Which is Satan's goal, after all, he ain't heaven bound, and wants all to join him in the Lake of fire of Revelation's ending chapters!
2) How important is it that we be certain as to the basis of our faith?
Psalms 11:2-3 "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
NOTE (JB) If the educated by men, draw YOU away from God's truth, what is left of your foundation of truth? The truth shall set you free, remember? John 8:31-32 " Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
3. So, why should a Christ man or woman know and understand the teachings of the Bible? {most study it not!]
1 Peter 3:15-16 " But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse "
4) To what does the Bible direct us to turn for evidence supporting the truth of God's love and power?
Job 12:7-8 " But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee"
NOTE (JB) In short, look to nature's interactions and interdependence, and see all the harmony.There are many plants, upon whom they fully rely upon a specific insect or bird, to fertilize it's seeds for the next generation, meaning that both had to be created, at the same time, for each other's continuity! Evolution cannot cover that picture, ever!
5) How do the Heavens witness to the Bible's revelation of God and of His power?
Psalms 19:1 <
NOTE(JB) How can anyone look up at the night sky, and think that all that order we can see, simply came from the "BIG-BANG's cataclysmic explosion? If this can be so, why have YOU, dear reader, not tossed a bundle of dynamite into a junk yard, in the hopes of it producing for you a brand new Cadillac? As one makes as much reason, as the other, right? I call this idea, "Organized Confusion!"
Sir James H. Jeans "EOS" p. 53. " Everything points with overwhelming force to a definite event, or series of events, of Creation at some time or times, not infinitely remote. The universe cannot have originated by mere chance out of its present ingredients, and neither can it have been always the same as now".
6) What witness do all created things give to their Maker and to the truth of the Bible record?
Romans 1:19-20 " Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"
NOTE(JB): To all those who think that they know more than God or that which is within His word, the Holy Bible-----
Romans 1:21-22 "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,"
NOTE(JB) God exists above and beyond both time and human science, after all I ask YOU. . . .who but God created the natural Laws men have found? The laws of gravity, speed of light, laws of motions, all had to be in-place and enforced by a POWER, to sustain all the planetary movements we can see and witness to! After all, "all movements will over time come to a stop, due to gravity, all heavenly bodies should by human thinking, of 15 billions of years of age, have come together into one huge conglomeration, YET have done so!
Sir John Herschal quoted by Howard A. Johnston in "Bible Criticism" and the Average Man" P.26: "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the sacred Scriptures."
Lords Calvin, quoted by Bernard Heywood's "This is our Faith" P.36. "Science is compelled to accept the idea of creative power".
Louis J.R. Agassiz, "Methods of Study in Natural History" 19th Ed., P. 14. "In our study of natural objects we are approaching the thoughts of the Creator, reading His conceptions, interpenetrating a system that is His and not ours."
NOTE(JB) Not all intellectuals are lost within themselves!
7) Mention some striking facts of the natural world which were actually anticipated in the Bible long before they were discovered by human science
.
A) Job 26:7 " He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."
Note: Earth's suspension in space came by Copernicus in 1543, it was not until the late 1920's that science found the expanding universe, yet Job wrote of both yet he lived in Median, the same place Moses lived, for 40 years, Job lived there during 1485 to 1445 B.C. SO UNLESS you have a time machine, how did Job know this unless told by The Creator God?
B). Job 28:24-25 " For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure."
Note: Galileo (1564-1642) was the first known to affirm that air had weight, when was human mathematics able to be used to estimate the the weight of earth's water? Only after satellite photographs was science able to calculate all earth's water quantity thus weight!
C). Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Note: Only in recent years has it been realized how important are the proportions and balance of the land masses and oceans on the earth's surface!
D) Hebrews 1:10-12 " And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They [ heaven and earth] shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."
Note: Not until the 20th Century [1900's] was the progressive aging and disintegration of matter by radioactivity discovered. nature is going down, [it's life-time as is ours, is limited b y God and sin] "The downward journey is easy, while the upward is either hard or impossible." Sir James H. Jeans, "The Universe Around Us." p. 306.
E) Leviticus 17:14 "For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off."
Note: The circulation and function of the blood was discovered by William Harvey in 1615. Yet Moses, wrote of it back in His day sometime,1400 years,before Christ!
NOTE(JB): Of the 1800 specific Prophecies in the Bible, more than 90% have come to pass and on time, so what thinking human being will know or think, that the last 10 % will not happen, and those that point to the the Times of the end? Please THINK! SELAH! In His Word are facts that deny both Atheism and pantheism alike! Yet one must study it, not just read it!
8). How have men spoken "to the earth", and what has it taught them?
Buried civilizations of past years have yielded their treasures to the spade of archaeologist, who have proven Davids existence and have found the Hittite empire! All of which the SCRIPTURE LAWYERS denied less than 100 years ago!
9). What are some striking examples of Bible facts once denied by the critics, but which have bee n completely confirmed by modern archaeological finds?
a) They declared that Abraham was a half-savage nomad quite incapable of the activities credited to him in the Biblical record. But in recent years it has been proved by Professor Leonard Wolley that a high state of civilization existed in the Near east long before the days of Abraham. This in his book UR OF THE CHALDEES [p123] and Charles Marston's "NEW BIBLE EVIDENCE,pp.88-123.
b) "They ridiculed the account of the capture of Jericho by Joshua until Professor J. Garstang of Liverpool University excavated the site and declared: "Set side by side with the Biblical narrative, the material evidence is seen to bear out in every essential detail the record of the capture and destruction of Jericho by the Israelites under Joshua". Quoted by D.E. Hart-Davis in "Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute: Vol. 67, p. 84.
c) They once denied the existence of the Hittites. But Professor A.H. Sayce of Cambridge proved the existence and extent of the Hittite Empire by excavating thousands of remains all over Asia Minor {Present Turkey} A.H. Sayce ""Monument Facts and Higher Critical Fallacies" and Sir Frederic Kenyon"s "The Bible and Archaeology" PP. 81-96.
d) They even denied that there ever was a king of Babylon called Belshazzar. Today more than five hundred fired clay tablets mentioning his name are known Read: "Nabonidus and Belshazzar" by R.P. Dougherty.
e) They even asserted that the Book of Acts was entirely untrustworthy in its history and geography. Sir William M. Ramsay, however, after years of travel in Asia Minor, conclusively declared: "You may press the words of Luke in a degree far beyond any other historians, and they stand the keenest scrutiny and the hardest treatment." "The New Testament in Light of Modern Research, P.166 Plus A.T. Robertson's "Luke the Historian".
NOTE(JB) In place of three quarters of a page of fine print allow me to state one obvious fact: "Just because some thing or some place mentioned, has not yet been found by Archaeology, does NOT mean it never existed! It ONLY means it has not yet been found!
10) In what Biblical terms may we therefore express our confidence in the trustworthiness and accuracy of the Scriptures?
Psalms 119:140 "Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it."
2 Timothy 3:16 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"
NOTE: Inspiration Greek is- theopneustos meaning Divinely breathed now look where else this very same, action is used
Genesis 2:7 "And the LORD
> God <'elohiym> formed <yatsar> man <'adam> of the dust <`aphar> of
BREATHED: in the Hebrew is Naphach to Blow, to breathe!Perhaps you'll note that a human's soul is NOT an add-on feature, but that all life that breathes and moves is a living soul, even a snail!
NOTE(JB) Today, there are few people, who having gone through schools, that know not about the ancient civilizations that were of old, What may be a surprise to many, is that men have not yet found anything within the Science of Archaeology, that DISPROVES anything within the Holy Bible, which is after the word of God Himself!
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Monday, September 12, 2016
"THE BIBLE SPEAKS" 'Is Our Bible Complete'? X W.L. EMMERSON. PUB., PACIFIC PRESS PUB.
My many thanks to the author, W.L. Emmerson and the above mentioned Pacific Press Publisher, John B.
IS OUR BIBLE COMPLETE?
1. Do all Bibles contain exactly the same books as the King James Authorized or Revised Versions?
NO! The Douay Bible of the Roman catholic Church contains what is known as the Apocrypha. This compromises seven books; namely: Tobit, Baruch [{NOTE JB) Baruch was the scribe for Jeremiah)] Judith, Wisdom,, Ecclesiasticus, and the First and Second Maccabees, together with six (6) additional chapters to the Book of Ester, and seventy additional verses in the third (3rd) chapter of Daniel, giving "The Story of the Three children."
Please take to heart-------Revelation 22:18-19 "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
NOTE (JB).. So why do the Roman leaders insist that these books THEY HAVE ADDED to Canon?
A: because there are verses within that backs up their doctrine dogmas of "Praying to the Dead" as well as Purgatory, a kind of HALF-WAY HOUSE TO THEIR HELL! Please make note: any even a quick study of the Bible's Revelation will let anyone reader know that there is NOT NOW a fiery hell! The Lake of Fire shall be upon this earth ONLY after Jesus' Second Coming {John 14:1-3} plus the 1,000 years with Jesus for the Saints, [Revelation 20:4] . The PURPOSE? to rid earth of all sin and death as well as human pollution on and within this very same earth! Plus take note in Revelation there are TWO Resurrections---all the unbelievers and the unjust , NEVER leave this earth! They Perish at Christ's return!
Revelation 20:6 "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years".
Isaiah 13:9-11 " Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible."
Matthew 24:27-28 "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together."
NOTE(JB) At His return John 14:1-3 will become history! All the other living shall perish, and the unbelievers still in graves, will remain for the 1,000 years. Thus only Satan and the fallen angels shall remain living, plus all the scavenger birds--eagles, vultures crows, etc, will feast on those remaining, as Satan will not bother to bury anyone! Truth is not always nice, now is it? Yet it is the SOLE RESULT of one's individual choices we each have made! None will face this IF THEY want Jesus! -----
John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
NOTE(JB) To all my catholic Brethren, do you see the word Mary in the above verse? THINK for yourself!
2. What does the Roman Catholic church say concerning the contents of her Bible?
"If anyone does not receive the entire books with all their part as they are accustomed to be read in the Catholic church, and in the Old Latin Vulgate Edition, as sacred and canonical.....let them be anathema." Decree of the Council of Trent, 1546.
NOTE (JB) oopps! Pope John Paul II issued a statement saying that Genesis 1, should not be taken literally, because it is an allegory, was he not fallible or? "Oh what a web we weave, we we begin to deceive, right?"
3. Can we ascertain what the books there were in the Old Testament as used in the days of Jesus Christ?
Note: ----"The Septuagint was the Old Testament of the times of Christ and apostles. From its pages (JB scrolls), in its language, the New Testament writers usually quoted. The early Christian Church all about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea adopted generally that version of the Old testament. It was by the use of it that they proved that Jesus was the Promised Messiah, that all the law and the prophets were fulfilled in Him" Ira M. Price, "The Ancestry of Our English Bible," P.62
"The Septuagint, as it has come down to us, not simply a translation of our Hebrew Bible, but also of the many of the so-called apocryphal books " IBID ., P. 54.
4. From what Old Testament books did Christ and the Apostles quote?
While Christ and the Apostles quoted from practically every book in the Protestant Canon, they NEVER quoted and of the apocryphal books as Scripture, nor even recognized their existence!
NOTE (JB) This was man's own doing, that they are included as Scripture in all Catholic Bibles thus they are of human tradition ONLY! Does the Word of God address this issue?
Matthew 15:3 " But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?"
NOTE (JB): Who is this "HE", that speaking here? None other than Jesus Christ Himself!
Colossians 2:8 " Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
Colossians 2:20 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,"
To be "dead" in Christ, means to be alive, yet spiritually dead, because one rejects the whole or in part all that Christ!
2 Peter 3:10-11 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,"
NOTE (JB): What ANYONE, or the vast majority believes, will not change what God has caused to be written! I mean, why anyone would think, that after more than 90% of ALL Prophecy has come to pass, as written, and on time, would ANYONE think or believe that last prophecy of Revelation and Daniel will just go away? God's GLORY is His WORD, His Character is the Ten Commandments!
5. Did the early church accept the apocryphal writings?
Note: Thomas Hartwell Horne, "An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures," Vol 1.P. 480.
"The Apocryphal books were not admitted into canon of divinely inspired Scriptures in any catalog of Sacred Books, or recognized by any council of the Ancient Christians church, nor in anything published by the Fathers or ecclesiastical writers of the first four centuries."
6. Have any Roman Catholics, ever questioned the inclusion, of the Apocrypha in their Bible?
YES! The great Roman Catholic scholar Jerome, when instructed by the Pope Damascus about A.D. 400 to prepare the Standard Latin Vulgate Version, wanted to exclude the Apocrypha because he believed that it had no place in Scripture. He was prevented from doing so, however, and under pressure he allowed it to remain to be "READ FOR PURPOSE OF EDIFICATION."
7. What other Catholic authorities have made pronouncements against the authority of the apocryphal writings?
Augustine followed Jerome in recognizing the difference between the canonical and the apocryphal books. The Spanish and trans-alpine churches rejected the Apocrypha. The British Catholic scholars Bede, John of Salisbury (1180) , and William Ockham (1347) all separated the apocryphal book. Cardinal Ximenes, in his magnificent Polyglot Bible, separated the Apocrypha from the rest of scripture in the 16th Century {1700's}
Even after the council of Florence in 1442 and the Council of Trent in 1546 had had pronounced the apocryphal books equal in inspiration to the other books, Sixtus of Siena (1566) insisted on separating the Apocrypha from the rest of the canon, and Bernard Lamy declared: "Nevertheless they are not of the same authority."
8. Why then does Rome insist on retaining the Apocrypha?
Because the apocryphal books can be quoted in support of some of the doctrines which the church holds!
A. Prayers for the dead are advocated-- "If he had not hoped that they that were slain would rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead." 2 Maccabees 12:44.
B. The dead are represented as praying for themselves.
Baruch 3:4 "O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before Thee."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.:"
NOTE(JB): Who will you believe The Word of God or men? Spirit = Breath of Life = Genesis2:7 please read it! As death is the opposite of Creation!
C. The meritorious value of alms-giving is emphasized.
"For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.". Tobit 12:9.
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
NOTE(JB): Christ died for all sins for all time on the behalf of all humanity! Money , nor works, gains us no passage to heaven, as neither is a pathway to heaven as I Jesus Christ Who IS The Way!
D. The doctrine of Purgatory is suggested.
"The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them." Wisdom 3:11
9. To what conclusion must we therefore come with respect to the Apocrypha?
That it has no place in the canon of divine revelation.
NEXT: CAN WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE?
Thanking YOU, for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
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Matthew 24:27-28 "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together."
NOTE(JB) At His return John 14:1-3 will become history! All the other living shall perish, and the unbelievers still in graves, will remain for the 1,000 years. Thus only Satan and the fallen angels shall remain living, plus all the scavenger birds--eagles, vultures crows, etc, will feast on those remaining, as Satan will not bother to bury anyone! Truth is not always nice, now is it? Yet it is the SOLE RESULT of one's individual choices we each have made! None will face this IF THEY want Jesus! -----
John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
NOTE(JB) To all my catholic Brethren, do you see the word Mary in the above verse? THINK for yourself!
2. What does the Roman Catholic church say concerning the contents of her Bible?
"If anyone does not receive the entire books with all their part as they are accustomed to be read in the Catholic church, and in the Old Latin Vulgate Edition, as sacred and canonical.....let them be anathema." Decree of the Council of Trent, 1546.
NOTE (JB) oopps! Pope John Paul II issued a statement saying that Genesis 1, should not be taken literally, because it is an allegory, was he not fallible or? "Oh what a web we weave, we we begin to deceive, right?"
3. Can we ascertain what the books there were in the Old Testament as used in the days of Jesus Christ?
Note: ----"The Septuagint was the Old Testament of the times of Christ and apostles. From its pages (JB scrolls), in its language, the New Testament writers usually quoted. The early Christian Church all about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea adopted generally that version of the Old testament. It was by the use of it that they proved that Jesus was the Promised Messiah, that all the law and the prophets were fulfilled in Him" Ira M. Price, "The Ancestry of Our English Bible," P.62
"The Septuagint, as it has come down to us, not simply a translation of our Hebrew Bible, but also of the many of the so-called apocryphal books " IBID ., P. 54.
4. From what Old Testament books did Christ and the Apostles quote?
While Christ and the Apostles quoted from practically every book in the Protestant Canon, they NEVER quoted and of the apocryphal books as Scripture, nor even recognized their existence!
NOTE (JB) This was man's own doing, that they are included as Scripture in all Catholic Bibles thus they are of human tradition ONLY! Does the Word of God address this issue?
Matthew 15:3 " But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?"
NOTE (JB): Who is this "HE", that speaking here? None other than Jesus Christ Himself!
Colossians 2:8 " Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
Colossians 2:20 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,"
To be "dead" in Christ, means to be alive, yet spiritually dead, because one rejects the whole or in part all that Christ!
2 Peter 3:10-11 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,"
NOTE (JB): What ANYONE, or the vast majority believes, will not change what God has caused to be written! I mean, why anyone would think, that after more than 90% of ALL Prophecy has come to pass, as written, and on time, would ANYONE think or believe that last prophecy of Revelation and Daniel will just go away? God's GLORY is His WORD, His Character is the Ten Commandments!
5. Did the early church accept the apocryphal writings?
Note: Thomas Hartwell Horne, "An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures," Vol 1.P. 480.
"The Apocryphal books were not admitted into canon of divinely inspired Scriptures in any catalog of Sacred Books, or recognized by any council of the Ancient Christians church, nor in anything published by the Fathers or ecclesiastical writers of the first four centuries."
6. Have any Roman Catholics, ever questioned the inclusion, of the Apocrypha in their Bible?
YES! The great Roman Catholic scholar Jerome, when instructed by the Pope Damascus about A.D. 400 to prepare the Standard Latin Vulgate Version, wanted to exclude the Apocrypha because he believed that it had no place in Scripture. He was prevented from doing so, however, and under pressure he allowed it to remain to be "READ FOR PURPOSE OF EDIFICATION."
7. What other Catholic authorities have made pronouncements against the authority of the apocryphal writings?
Augustine followed Jerome in recognizing the difference between the canonical and the apocryphal books. The Spanish and trans-alpine churches rejected the Apocrypha. The British Catholic scholars Bede, John of Salisbury (1180) , and William Ockham (1347) all separated the apocryphal book. Cardinal Ximenes, in his magnificent Polyglot Bible, separated the Apocrypha from the rest of scripture in the 16th Century {1700's}
Even after the council of Florence in 1442 and the Council of Trent in 1546 had had pronounced the apocryphal books equal in inspiration to the other books, Sixtus of Siena (1566) insisted on separating the Apocrypha from the rest of the canon, and Bernard Lamy declared: "Nevertheless they are not of the same authority."
8. Why then does Rome insist on retaining the Apocrypha?
Because the apocryphal books can be quoted in support of some of the doctrines which the church holds!
A. Prayers for the dead are advocated-- "If he had not hoped that they that were slain would rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead." 2 Maccabees 12:44.
B. The dead are represented as praying for themselves.
Baruch 3:4 "O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before Thee."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.:"
NOTE(JB): Who will you believe The Word of God or men? Spirit = Breath of Life = Genesis2:7 please read it! As death is the opposite of Creation!
C. The meritorious value of alms-giving is emphasized.
"For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.". Tobit 12:9.
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
NOTE(JB): Christ died for all sins for all time on the behalf of all humanity! Money , nor works, gains us no passage to heaven, as neither is a pathway to heaven as I Jesus Christ Who IS The Way!
D. The doctrine of Purgatory is suggested.
"The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them." Wisdom 3:11
9. To what conclusion must we therefore come with respect to the Apocrypha?
That it has no place in the canon of divine revelation.
NEXT: CAN WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE?
Thanking YOU, for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
HOW WE GOT THE BIBLE..from "THE BIBLE SPEAKS" by W.L. EMMERSON
My many thanks to the author and Pacific Press Publishing Association: Copyright 1949... John B.
1. How close was man's first fellowship with God?
Genesis 3:8-9 "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: ........... And the LORD God called unto Adam, ...."
2. What caused the break in this intimate communion?
Isaiah 59:2 "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear."
3. After sin entered the world, what modified method of communication with man did God adopt?
Hebrews 1:1 "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,"
4. What nation id God single out to be the special instrument of His revelations?
Romans 3:1-2 " What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."
Romans 9:4 "Who are Israelite s; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;"
Note(JB) Then Israel covered the three major trading routes, from three continents, so they were well placed to spread the Word of God, which they failed to do!
5. What further provision did God make for keeping the knowledge of His will before His chosen people?
Exodus 17:14 "And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will..."
Exodus 24:4 "And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel."
NOTE: --In His providence God gathered up the record of the past and communicated it to Moses, instructing him to write in the book to form the nucleus of a written revelation which could be handed down from generation to generation. By divine inspiration Moses wrote the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, which became known as "The Book of Moses" [2 Chronicles 25:4]
NOTE (JB) If anyone sweeps away the authority as an inspiration, one then undermines the entire Bible, and look what it says about rejections of Scripture-----
Proverbs 13:13 "Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded."
Winston S. Churchill , in his book "Thoughts and Adventures" p. 249 Wrote this: "We may be sure that all these things happened just ass they are set out according to the Holy Writ."
6. Who was commissioned to continue the sacred record after the death of Moses at the age of 120 years?
Joshua 24:26 "And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD?
7. Who were chosen by the Lord to give guidance and reproof to His people after Israel settled in Canaan?
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2 Kings 17:13 "Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
Note: - During the period of the monarchy there were added to the Books of Moses and Joshua the books of Samuel, the earlier parts of the Kings and the Chronicles, the Psalms of David, the Proverbs, and the Song of Solomon, $Ecclesiastes, and the writings of the earlier prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah Hosea, Joel and Amos.
8. During the captivity of Israel and Judah or immediately after the captives' return to their homes, what new books were incorporated into scripture?
Ezekiel, Daniel, Obadiah, Nahum, Habukkuk, Zepheniah and perhaps the latter parts of the books of the Kings and the Chronicles.
9. How did the children of Israel who returned from captivity indicate their desire to understand the words of the Lord?
Nehemiah 8:1 "And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel." [please read verses 1-8]
10. What books were added in post-captivity days to complete the Old Testament Scriptures, as we now have it?
Note: The Book of Malachi, written about 400 B.C., the canon of the Old Testament was completed. It had been in process of formation for more than a 1000 years.
NOTE: (JB), Please know that neither Jesus Christ, nor ANY of the Apostles ever referred to, nor ever quoted any of the books we know as the Apocrypha, the 14 books found ONLY in the Catholic Bibles, because it backs up a few of their dogmas, of prayers to , and for, the dead, and purgatory. Thus are but "Traditions of men!" Matthew 15:3 "But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? ---- Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
As one can see, plainly, the word of God, proves itself within itself! It is its own expositor!
11. How did Jesus refer to the Old Testament Scriptures?
Luke 24:44 "And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me."
Note: This three-fold division was the customary classification of the Old Testament books in the days of Jesus: "The Law of Moses," included the five books of the Pentateuch; "The Prophets", comprising Joshua, Judges, First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings [ NOTE (JB) the Douay Bible has the last four books as 1-4 Kings, but no matter, any Bible student, can teach our God's path to Salvation so far to date, from any Bible! BUT not for any other god!]--Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve {so-called} Minor Prophets,, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth and first and second Chronicles.
12. In what form were the earliest writings of the New Testament set down?
1 Thessalonians 5:27-28 " I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen."
Note: As time passed, it became more and more difficult for the 12 apostles personally to visit all the groups of christian believers which were springing up. In order to meet the need for further instruction in faith, to combat error, and to warn against strange and heretic teachers, the apostles were led to send forth messages warnings and exhortations. See 1 Corinthians 1:1-2. Galatians 1:1,2; Ehphesians 1:1; James 1:1 and
1 Peter 1:1-2 "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied."
13. What portions of the New Testament were next written?
Luke 1:1-4 "Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed."
Note: Some 35 years had passed since Jesus ascended to Heaven, and persecutions were decimating the ranks of the disciples. Soon there would be no one who had been with Jesus who could tell {first hand} the story of His life and teachings. Therefore several men were led to the prepare authoritative accounts, and the Gospels or "Good News", came into being. The earliest was written by Mark; Matthew wrote his gospel soon after, followed by Luke. John's Gospel came much latter as was one of the last of the New testament books to be written.
NOTE (JB) John was not only the last apostle, but was the ONLY one to die a natural death even-though the the Romans tried to kill him by boiling him in a kettle of boiling oil, God protected his just as well as He protected the Daniel's three friends in fiery furnace!
Daniel 3:23-27 "And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them."
NOTE: Don't believe this? Then read the next verse....
Proverbs 13:13 "Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded."
If you do not believe in the worthiness of God or His Word, tell HIM so in prayer, He's love to hear from YOU!
14. In addition to his Gospel what further record was Luke giving an account of to the early church leaders as they went forth to fulfill the great commission given them by Jesus.?
Acts 1:8 "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."
15. With what prophetic communication was the New Testament completed?
Revelation 1:1 "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:"
NOTE (JB) Many a church and pastor refuse to teach from the Books of Revelation, many holding, "It's not for man to know"! However if this is the case in YOUR church ask, your Pastor/Priest, the reason for this verse........
Revelation 1:3 "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."
Then ask: "Why are you robbing us of this blessing"? By the way, you are most likely in a Sunday worship church so I ask you why, in view of this.... in Christ's own words---- John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
Along with this: Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
God only, and only God can make a day, Holy, not man!
Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." To verify please read Exodus 16th chapter, and Luke 23's last few verses and the first few in 24th chapter, to fix the Sabbath day, in time!
By 100 A.D. all the Books were together in the New Testament.
16. How did God intend that Bible should be used?
Jeremiah 36:6 "Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. "
Nehemiah 8:8 "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."
2 Timothy 2:15 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
NOTE (JB) There's in my mind, a huge difference between reading and studying any book especially one such as The Word of God!
Joseph Haroutunian "The Bible and the word of god" Interpretations, Vol..1. No.3,p .295. "in the Bible, I must read the word of God to me in my specific situation. I must read it as one listening to God, in order to learn His will concerning me and my duty as I face a particular decision. I must read it as one who is at the parting of ways, as one who must choose between good and evil, between life and death."
NOTE (JB) life and death both can be eternal! This is for each to choose, and it is ours!
17. What blessed result will follow the wholehearted acceptance of the word?
John 20:31 " But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name."
NOTE: Is there a promise we can cling too?
John 14:1-6 "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
NOTE: No , not by Mary, nor any other name under heaven! Nor via any MAN_MADE religion beyond Christ's teachings!
NEXT: "Is our Bible complete"?
Thanking YOU for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
Want More? Visit your seventh-day Adventist church any Saturday/Sabbath, at 9-10 AM, and be surprised just how Jesus loves YOU!
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1. How close was man's first fellowship with God?
Genesis 3:8-9 "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: ........... And the LORD God called unto Adam, ...."
2. What caused the break in this intimate communion?
Isaiah 59:2 "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear."
3. After sin entered the world, what modified method of communication with man did God adopt?
Hebrews 1:1 "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,"
4. What nation id God single out to be the special instrument of His revelations?
Romans 3:1-2 " What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."
Romans 9:4 "Who are Israelite s; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;"
Note(JB) Then Israel covered the three major trading routes, from three continents, so they were well placed to spread the Word of God, which they failed to do!
5. What further provision did God make for keeping the knowledge of His will before His chosen people?
Exodus 17:14 "And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will..."
Exodus 24:4 "And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel."
NOTE: --In His providence God gathered up the record of the past and communicated it to Moses, instructing him to write in the book to form the nucleus of a written revelation which could be handed down from generation to generation. By divine inspiration Moses wrote the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, which became known as "The Book of Moses" [2 Chronicles 25:4]
NOTE (JB) If anyone sweeps away the authority as an inspiration, one then undermines the entire Bible, and look what it says about rejections of Scripture-----
Proverbs 13:13 "Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded."
Winston S. Churchill , in his book "Thoughts and Adventures" p. 249 Wrote this: "We may be sure that all these things happened just ass they are set out according to the Holy Writ."
6. Who was commissioned to continue the sacred record after the death of Moses at the age of 120 years?
Joshua 24:26 "And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD?
7. Who were chosen by the Lord to give guidance and reproof to His people after Israel settled in Canaan?
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2 Kings 17:13 "Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
Note: - During the period of the monarchy there were added to the Books of Moses and Joshua the books of Samuel, the earlier parts of the Kings and the Chronicles, the Psalms of David, the Proverbs, and the Song of Solomon, $Ecclesiastes, and the writings of the earlier prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah Hosea, Joel and Amos.
8. During the captivity of Israel and Judah or immediately after the captives' return to their homes, what new books were incorporated into scripture?
Ezekiel, Daniel, Obadiah, Nahum, Habukkuk, Zepheniah and perhaps the latter parts of the books of the Kings and the Chronicles.
9. How did the children of Israel who returned from captivity indicate their desire to understand the words of the Lord?
Nehemiah 8:1 "And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel." [please read verses 1-8]
10. What books were added in post-captivity days to complete the Old Testament Scriptures, as we now have it?
Note: The Book of Malachi, written about 400 B.C., the canon of the Old Testament was completed. It had been in process of formation for more than a 1000 years.
NOTE: (JB), Please know that neither Jesus Christ, nor ANY of the Apostles ever referred to, nor ever quoted any of the books we know as the Apocrypha, the 14 books found ONLY in the Catholic Bibles, because it backs up a few of their dogmas, of prayers to , and for, the dead, and purgatory. Thus are but "Traditions of men!" Matthew 15:3 "But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? ---- Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."
As one can see, plainly, the word of God, proves itself within itself! It is its own expositor!
11. How did Jesus refer to the Old Testament Scriptures?
Luke 24:44 "And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me."
Note: This three-fold division was the customary classification of the Old Testament books in the days of Jesus: "The Law of Moses," included the five books of the Pentateuch; "The Prophets", comprising Joshua, Judges, First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings [ NOTE (JB) the Douay Bible has the last four books as 1-4 Kings, but no matter, any Bible student, can teach our God's path to Salvation so far to date, from any Bible! BUT not for any other god!]--Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve {so-called} Minor Prophets,, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth and first and second Chronicles.
12. In what form were the earliest writings of the New Testament set down?
1 Thessalonians 5:27-28 " I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Note: As time passed, it became more and more difficult for the 12 apostles personally to visit all the groups of christian believers which were springing up. In order to meet the need for further instruction in faith, to combat error, and to warn against strange and heretic teachers, the apostles were led to send forth messages warnings and exhortations. See 1 Corinthians 1:1-2. Galatians 1:1,2; Ehphesians 1:1; James 1:1 and
1 Peter 1:1-2 "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied."
13. What portions of the New Testament were next written?
Luke 1:1-4 "Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed."
Note: Some 35 years had passed since Jesus ascended to Heaven, and persecutions were decimating the ranks of the disciples. Soon there would be no one who had been with Jesus who could tell {first hand} the story of His life and teachings. Therefore several men were led to the prepare authoritative accounts, and the Gospels or "Good News", came into being. The earliest was written by Mark; Matthew wrote his gospel soon after, followed by Luke. John's Gospel came much latter as was one of the last of the New testament books to be written.
NOTE (JB) John was not only the last apostle, but was the ONLY one to die a natural death even-though the the Romans tried to kill him by boiling him in a kettle of boiling oil, God protected his just as well as He protected the Daniel's three friends in fiery furnace!
Daniel 3:23-27 "And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them."
NOTE: Don't believe this? Then read the next verse....
Proverbs 13:13 "Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded."
If you do not believe in the worthiness of God or His Word, tell HIM so in prayer, He's love to hear from YOU!
14. In addition to his Gospel what further record was Luke giving an account of to the early church leaders as they went forth to fulfill the great commission given them by Jesus.?
Acts 1:8 "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."
15. With what prophetic communication was the New Testament completed?
Revelation 1:1 "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:"
NOTE (JB) Many a church and pastor refuse to teach from the Books of Revelation, many holding, "It's not for man to know"! However if this is the case in YOUR church ask, your Pastor/Priest, the reason for this verse........
Revelation 1:3 "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."
Then ask: "Why are you robbing us of this blessing"? By the way, you are most likely in a Sunday worship church so I ask you why, in view of this.... in Christ's own words---- John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
Along with this: Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
God only, and only God can make a day, Holy, not man!
Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." To verify please read Exodus 16th chapter, and Luke 23's last few verses and the first few in 24th chapter, to fix the Sabbath day, in time!
By 100 A.D. all the Books were together in the New Testament.
16. How did God intend that Bible should be used?
Jeremiah 36:6 "Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. "
Nehemiah 8:8 "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."
2 Timothy 2:15 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
NOTE (JB) There's in my mind, a huge difference between reading and studying any book especially one such as The Word of God!
Joseph Haroutunian "The Bible and the word of god" Interpretations, Vol..1. No.3,p .295. "in the Bible, I must read the word of God to me in my specific situation. I must read it as one listening to God, in order to learn His will concerning me and my duty as I face a particular decision. I must read it as one who is at the parting of ways, as one who must choose between good and evil, between life and death."
NOTE (JB) life and death both can be eternal! This is for each to choose, and it is ours!
17. What blessed result will follow the wholehearted acceptance of the word?
John 20:31 " But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name."
NOTE: Is there a promise we can cling too?
John 14:1-6 "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
NOTE: No , not by Mary, nor any other name under heaven! Nor via any MAN_MADE religion beyond Christ's teachings!
NEXT: "Is our Bible complete"?
Thanking YOU for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
Want More? Visit your seventh-day Adventist church any Saturday/Sabbath, at 9-10 AM, and be surprised just how Jesus loves YOU!
Other sites: aftv.org; blbn.org; amazingfdiscoveries.org www.servantsite@wordpress.com
jb
Thursday, August 25, 2016
A PUFF OF SMOKE by LOREN SEIBOLD-- SIGNS of the TIMES- 6/'16.
My many thanks to both within the title John B.
According to Loren Seibold, even seemingly mundane behaviors, [(jb) can we say habits? YES!] have huge spiritual consequences.
Note: (JB) It seems it's fashionable, these days, to call any habit, a disease, that can be treated by men and money, right? Well dear reader, can YOU tell me of anyone that voluntarily exposed themselves in order to catch a transmitted disease? However do humans willingly drink an alcoholic beverage, or take that first use of tobacco, or that first hit of illicit drugs or as they call it today "MEDICINE" grass-weed, joint?
Note: Please let's be honest here OK? Most, but not all , who use weed, just want to get high, to use it as a mind-altering drug! The most common excuse? Well everyone uses it, even Md's and lawyers! OK, so If man y people run of a pier in shark infested waters, would that be a reason to join the crowd? Please let's not all be as--- "Chicken Little" alright!
We have no choice in our receiving a disease, unlike ALL our habits! Now to the story!
According to Loren Seibold, even seemingly mundane behaviors, [(jb) can we say habits? YES!] have huge spiritual consequences.
Note: (JB) It seems it's fashionable, these days, to call any habit, a disease, that can be treated by men and money, right? Well dear reader, can YOU tell me of anyone that voluntarily exposed themselves in order to catch a transmitted disease? However do humans willingly drink an alcoholic beverage, or take that first use of tobacco, or that first hit of illicit drugs or as they call it today "MEDICINE" grass-weed, joint?
Note: Please let's be honest here OK? Most, but not all , who use weed, just want to get high, to use it as a mind-altering drug! The most common excuse? Well everyone uses it, even Md's and lawyers! OK, so If man y people run of a pier in shark infested waters, would that be a reason to join the crowd? Please let's not all be as--- "Chicken Little" alright!
We have no choice in our receiving a disease, unlike ALL our habits! Now to the story!
NOT FAR---
From the North Dakota farm where I grew up was a barely-there town: a couple of grain elevators, a Post Office, a bar, and a general store. The store was a brick box, containing creaky floors, old and poorly stocked shelves, a few spotty fruits and vegetables, and a single dairy case. Nonetheless, I liked it, because it had a long counter of candy in front of the cash register, and Mother would let me pick out one dusty item to eat on the way home. Like many old stores of that era, the storekeeper's office consisted of a balcony along the back of the store, from which he could look down over his or her domain.
The storekeeper was Earl Smith, a grumpy old cadaver of a man, tall and gaunt, his face a semitransparent membrane of wrinkled parchment over his skull. He never stopped smoking. A camel hung from his lips as he cut your bread or meat, and he made the change and packaged your grocery bags, puffs of smoke would expel into your face.
My family strictly apposed smoking, not just because it was not healthy, nor hygienic, but it was interpreted what I heard my parents say, it was "a sin."
I was but four years old when I decided to reach out to Mr. Smith about his vice. As my Mother shopped, I mounted the steps up to the balcony where he was sitting at his desk going through receipts, a glowing but hanging as ever from the corner of his mouth, I helpfully, but pointedly, informed him that if smoked cigarettes he was going to get sick and die. And when he did , I was quit sure he wouldn't get into heaven, because I happened to know that Jesus hates cigarettes.
Mr. Smith shouted down to my mother, "Hey, come and get your brat." As my Mom collected me he growled at her that what he smoked was none of any one's business but his, and she should shut her child up.
My Mother, embarrassed, but when she told my father about it later, it sounded as though she was a little proud too.
THE EVOLUTION OF AN ADDICTION.
Tobacco is mostly an American story. Columbus's crew saw Native Americans inhaling smoke created by the burning of a large-leafed plant, which seemed to leave them in a state of relaxation, Tobacco-- NICOTIANA TABACUM-- was only used ritually by most Native Americans, for religious or treaty ceremonies and, occasionally, as an ingredient in herbal medicines. It remained for the European importers (Sir Walter Raleigh is generally given credit for popularizing it in Europe) to turn tobacco into a recreational drug. The southeastern part of North America {note species have been developed to grow as far north in Pontipool,Ontario Canada JB) was ideal for its cultivation, and tobacco soon became a major American export, which required slaves to work the plantations!
NOTE: (JB) Tobacco's addiction helped provide the need for slave labor, thus the slave trade, then cotton increased this horrific treatment of human beings! But today we have "SLAVES"--- to addictions of many intoxicating plants and chemical both legal and illicit types of drugs!
Not everyone welcomed tobacco, King James I of England ( Yes, the sponsor of the King James Bible) wrote a treatise opposing it, calling it a "Custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the Nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lings, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Still, it was defended by the physicians of the day who declared it health-improving. Health was an argument used well into the 20th century, when popular magazine advertisements featured cigarette recommendations by celebrity doctors.
Tobacco turned out to be a difficult foe to oppose. It provided jobs and brought prosperity to the American south. In the mid-nineteenth century, one-third of American Federal taxes came from tobacco, and other governments , around the world taxed it similarly. It was still believed to he healthful by some, and innocuous by most. Cigarettes protruded from the lips of beautiful and handsome celebrities in magazines, movies, and television programs, and became to be regarded as a mark of sophistication! [(JB) only Satan could have pulled that one of on the people!]
Most important---though this was denied by the tobacco marketers--- nicotine, the active alkaloid in tobacco is highly addictive.--------
NOTE: Nicotine, just enough to fit on the head of a straight pin, used by dressmakers, is more than enough to kill an animal the size of a rabbit or same sized dog! I WAS a smoker for 40+ years, a pack a day habit, until I read---
1 Corinthians 6:19 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
----- on my knees I went, after I got rid of all the cigarette paraphernalia, and threw it all way, I then asked God's help in removing this habit from within me. It was three weeks later when I walked in a parking lot, and smelled others smell as i used to, STINK! Thank God, for removing this silly and now very expensive habit. When I began at 15 it cost 25 cents in a machine and now its near $6.00 a pack? Almost all is taxes!
------- Nicotine, the active alkaloid in tobacco, is highly addictive. Smokers found it difficult to stop smoking, even when they wanted to. [ JB, I had no problem quitting when I was a smoker, I could quit even several times each day!]
Tobacco's early opposition came from Christians, church leaders argued that such an addictive habit was incompatible with a life dedicated to God. Seventh-day Adventists author Ellen White condemned it as early as 1848, and by 1861 her colleague J.N. Loughborough would write, "We do not take [into our church] any who uses tobacco... To take in those who are holding on to their sins and wrongs would be to encourage the things we are seeking to remedy."
Note: if we call our church a hospital for the Spiritually sick, how can we deny anyone's entry? Is it not the Job of the Holy Spirit to convict them to better habits? Who are we to Judge, and is that not Christ's job?
Many religious leaders took up the crusade. The Evangelist Billy Sunday became particularly vociferous opponent of smoking.
Note: if we call our church a hospital for the Spiritually sick, how can we deny anyone's entry? Is it not the Job of the Holy Spirit to convict them to better habits? Who are we to Judge, and is that not Christ's job?
Many religious leaders took up the crusade. The Evangelist Billy Sunday became particularly vociferous opponent of smoking.
Although doctors in many part of the world saw an increase of disease in smokers, political pressure blocked serious research. {(JB) it's old case of follow the money, Honey! It talks, everything else, walks! ] A report by the U.S . Surgeon General in 1964 tentatively (and against very strong opposition by the tobacco industry) for the suggested link between smoking and disease, but this theory wasn't allowed to be confirmed for another 20 years. "BIG TOBACCO" as its opponents called it, was ruthless in its promotion, even advertising to children using cartoon characters. The watershed moment for many consumers came in 1994 when, before a congressional subcommittee in the House of representatives, seven tobacco industry executives perjured themselves under oath, stating unequivocally what every tobacco user {should... JB) have known to be a lie: that tobacco was not addictive!
NOTE: If you reject or have not ever know God, YOUR CREATOR, then following the rules of A.A.A. will be of help, but as noted God can remove any and all addiction, if you but ask in faith knowing that He'll honor your request! WHY? He loved YOU so--much--that He willingly died for YOUR SINS, so YOU won't; have to die WITH your sins! He even removed my unconscious, reaching into my shirt pocket for an other "fix"! ONLY GOD CAN DO SO!
FAITH AND TOBACCO.
DESPITE DECADES OF DENIAL, THERE IS NOW NO DOUBT THAT TOBACCO DESTROYS HEALTH not only of the users, but those within the proximity of the smoke, those ones we love, family members, and including our pets! All are open to cancer's attacks!
Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
NOTE: What Price you might have asked? Well surely most know all the trails that Jesus suffered, the whipe, with 9 strands, each with steel blades and sharped pieces of bone, that ripped flesh from bone, on His back and belly! Then for good measure was nailed to an X style cross, where it took six hours to die! Now IF THIS WAS YOUR CHILD, and you can see this in real time, I ask YOU what's the PRICE?
Inasmuch as each person's "SELF," is housed in a biological Brain, that's dependent upon a healthy biological body, there seems to be no justification, to do anything that would make either brain or body less serviceable to God, or even to self!-----agree?
Ecclesiastes 7:17 "Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? "
1 Corinthians 10:31 " Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
These passages then clearly show, that this topic goes far beyond the mere good health, to become a total Spiritual Issue! Can a Christian whose life is dedicated to God, be enslaved to a conscience altering drug? Though tobacco was not known to the Bible writers, they quite familiar with another drug: alcohol. The Bible unequivocally condemns drunkenness....
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Proverbs 20:1 "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
Proverbs 20:1 "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
Look where Paul places drunks----
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
No, nicotine is not as fast acting, as alcohol, but we have been given a comparison in---
Ephesians 5:18 "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;"
The implication here is simple, we can't serve two masters, but the ONE to who we obey, we serve! No matter the what, or the whom, IF our life contradicts God's ways for us, we serve another god, "Bacus?'
Matthew 6:24 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Galatians 5:22-25 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."
Fortunately, a addiction can be overcome, with God. He will not tempt you.....
1 Corinthians 10:13 "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
WHY, let a selfish habit destroy, family, friends, jobs, in addition to having IT.... stand between YOU and the full EXPERIENCE of knowing God's love?
Thanking YOU for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
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Thursday, August 18, 2016
THE ULTIMATE IDENTITY THEFT. E. DICKERSON- Times of the signs 6/2016.
My humble thanks to both the author and this magazine. John B
THE PHONE RANG,
As I was pulling out of my daughter's driveway in Iowa. "Did you use your debit card at the Food Lion store in Asheville, North Carolina, earlier this afternoon?"
I informed the voice on the other end of the line that I've never been to Asheville, North Carolina. She replied that my debit card was being suspended, that these purchases would not a charge to my account, and that a new debit card would be issues soon. That wasn't the first time I'd received such a call, and it may not be the last!
Perhaps you've has the same experience---someone gaining possession of your credit or debit card information and attempting to use it. It's called "Identity Theft",. You'd think that, in this digital age, with all the hi-tech gizmo's and methods we have to verifying identity, it would be very difficult--even impossible -- for someone to steal your identity. I mean, look at the sophisticated ways we have of determining identity.
We've been using fingerprinting data for about 150 years. DNA is commonly used to identify people these days and now machines can do palm prints, even eye retinal scans.
It seems like identity theft would have been easier in the past when there was no photo IDs, telephones, or even a telegraph. Back then people might have traveled with a letter of credit, or even of an introduction. Still considering travel modes, it did not take a great journey for anyone, to be in a area within which not person would have known him.Plus one that has been gone a long time, returning may find that few even recognize him!
Story tellers aft use mistaken or actual identity theft, as Shakespeare oft used in his stage plays, as well as Alexander Dumas' "The Man in the Iron Mask," about a French King's twin, and Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" and the lesser known "Puddin' Head Wilson" all used I.D theft.
Ironically, it's greatly due to our DIGITAL AGE that makes identity theft so much easier. Many of us do our banking, and purchasing and even paying our bill over the Internet!.This is where all our information regarding our total identity is transformed into nothing more than a set of Ones ans Zeros, either inside telephone, Fiber-optic or the ether, via transmitted signals.
Then these Ones and Zeros are verified not by any human, but simply via a series of computer algorithms.If, then the wrong people get a hold of my digital information, and uses it, the algorithms at the other end have no way of knowing that this new information coming in is NOT from me!
It seems like identity theft would have been easier in the past when there was no photo IDs, telephones, or even a telegraph. Back then people might have traveled with a letter of credit, or even of an introduction. Still considering travel modes, it did not take a great journey for anyone, to be in a area within which not person would have known him.Plus one that has been gone a long time, returning may find that few even recognize him!
Story tellers aft use mistaken or actual identity theft, as Shakespeare oft used in his stage plays, as well as Alexander Dumas' "The Man in the Iron Mask," about a French King's twin, and Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" and the lesser known "Puddin' Head Wilson" all used I.D theft.
Ironically, it's greatly due to our DIGITAL AGE that makes identity theft so much easier. Many of us do our banking, and purchasing and even paying our bill over the Internet!.This is where all our information regarding our total identity is transformed into nothing more than a set of Ones ans Zeros, either inside telephone, Fiber-optic or the ether, via transmitted signals.
Then these Ones and Zeros are verified not by any human, but simply via a series of computer algorithms.If, then the wrong people get a hold of my digital information, and uses it, the algorithms at the other end have no way of knowing that this new information coming in is NOT from me!
WHERE DOES, OR CAN, ALL THIS BRING US?
This leads to a whole range of opportunities for the thieves, who are unscrupulous, at best.
NOTE: (JB) Ive had my hard drive encrypted, and for a price they give me the code to unscramble all my information, of 100's of Bible lesson. I just just hit delete! Not going to reward crime, with payment! Besides do so once, they';; just come back again and again!
Sadly it is NOT just IDs they steal, but Rod Douglas, a ID theft and scam expert, says, they can take such things as "cell and land line services, cable and satellite TV services, Power , Gas and electrical services, Internet payments intercepted, for health Insurance, car insurance and the like, not to mention home and all mortgage payments rental housing, all payments we make for all our purchases! They can even use your ID to gain employment, and even to deceive the police when {they're} arrested, and set free!
In point of fact, money maybe the least of our worries, of those victimized by ID theft. Christine DiGangi, an editor for Credit.com, said, "While most theft victims don't personally lose money, thieves can leave a trail of poor financial behavior under a victim's name, translating into negative accounts on credit reports and lower credit scores. Victims whose personal information was misused are more likely to experience negative accounts on credit reports because of ID theft than those whose existing account information is stolen."
Identity Thieves, don't just want your money, they want to be YOU! To exercise power over you, and all that you own! Yet, when we stop to think about it, the ULTIMATE IDENTITY THEFT would be to steal the identity of God!
STEALING GOD'S IDENTITY.
The Holy Bible speaks to just that type of crime----
Isaiah 14:12-15 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
NOTE:(JB) many a person, believes that Satan the devil, is not real but a myth to scare people into churches! Yet they ignore the pure evil men do because of him, plus he has powers far beyond ours, yet any and all so-called 'Natural Disasters" are God's will many say, but it's all belongs to Satan, who God uses to wake us all up from our stupors!
Revelation 12:7-9 "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
NOTE: I use this passage whenever I teach about the fall of man, when sin entered into this world! At that time I firmly believe that The Father/God/Creator, put this world in quarantine, to prevent the spread of sin to other worlds of His creation, and have them turn out as earth did! Read Matthew 24, Mark 13, and, Luke 21, and look at all the natural upheavals coming to us at unprecedented rates, and THINK!
Having lost in Heaven and all the other worlds he won over Adam and Eve, who rebelled against God wish, sinned and thus lost their immorality..[ "Thou shalt surely die..." Genesis 2:17]
It was at that point Lucifer, now known as SATAN [Hebrew for opposes] began to reap what he coveted, worship: in the guise of false gods. When the times drew near for Jesus to come to earth, Lucifer/Satan inspired numerous aspiring people to falsely claim that were the Messiah. It was his purpose to steal the Identity of God's Son and thereby continue to sow confusion and discredit Him, even to this very day!
Matthew 4:1-9 "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me."
NOTE: Other than the full GODHEAD, all others, are CREATED BEINGS, by the will of the Father, so just how big an ego does Satan have? Big enough, to draw many to his side as we can see------
Revelation 13:2-3 "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."
NOTE: A study of Daniel up to chapter 7 will show: A. a beast power, is a earthly kingdom that puts church and state as one! B. The dragon is primarily Satan, but is also the Bible's name for Pagan Rome, as that great and terrible beast, the two only powers not named by Daniel. Those who know history will know that the Popes of Romes do and have sat, on the thrones of the Caesars! This also God caused to be written---"...and the dragon [Satan] gave him his power, and his seat.. and great authority"
If you deny this, ask self why, 96% of all Christians obey Rome's call for Sun-Day worships, in place of the Bible's Sabbaths?
Mark 2:27 " And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:"
NOTE: To all who hold that the Seventh day Sabbath was ONLY for the Jews, do YOU see the word JEW in read above?
Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."
QUESTION: "How did mankind arrive at a seven (7) day week, why not 10, and have a 3 week month system? [They tried, in both Russia and France}
Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."
This is earth's "Birth Certificate"! Plus a God-given weekly memorial to His Creative actions, because He knew that the silly notions of Evolution would soon come from Satan's mind into the minds of many! The time frames of our day, months and year are all set by the rotations of earth, moon around the sun, so the week came from???? GOD!
Satan failed of course, in both Heaven and in his attempt to temp Jesus, as well as to kill Him by ordering his army to kill all males under two in Bethlehem and area around it!
Jeremiah 31:15 "Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not."
Matthew 2:16-17 "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,"
Note: Can YOU now see the why the God's Word is tomorrow's news today? Rehel is Rachael.
But Satan did not stop there, as you read and learned in Revelation 13:2, he's not above changing the hearts of people as he has done in----
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?"
CATHOLIC NATIONAL, JULY 1895: "THE POPE IS NOT ONLY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF JESUS CHRIST, BUT HE IS JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF, HIDDEN UNDER VEIL OF FLESH."
Who was this Pope this monthly new letter was speaking about? Pope Leo XIII who said this in his ENCYCLICAL LETTER of June 20, 1984---- "WE HOLD UPON THIS EARTH THE PLACE OF GOD ALMIGHTY."
NOTE: Rome has many, Jesus loving people, who shall enter into the kingdom, God's eternal Kingdom. but their leadership members?????? That's for God to decide! Remember ONLY GOD can forgive our sins, no priest is able, beyond sins by others to his own person!
So, how would one go about trying to steal the identity of Jesus Christ?--- always go to the Word of God...
Matthew 24:23-28 "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together."
Revelation 1:7 "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen."
Note: HIS REWARD shall be with Him, thus all HIS OWN shall be resurrected and changed into immortals, and all who reject Him shall perish! Hence the eagles who will feast upon their flesh
Now claiming to be Jesus is easy, as He's been pictured in so many differing ways, BUT what if this imitation also preforms miracles of healing the sick?......
Revelation 13:13-14 "And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live."
Note: Calling down fire from above, would that not grab attention? Plus if they were kind, soft spoken and walk upon the after how many would think this is the true and real Jesus? Only those who know not the Holy Bible!-----
2 Thessalonians 2:8-9 "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,"
Note: Satan, is the first supernatural being we shall see in his body, taking on the appearance of Christ, and claiming to be Him! BUT he is the "INSTEAD OF CHRIST" THE ANTICHRIST.
2 Corinthians 11:14 "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light."
NOTE: It is Satan that produces all those Mary sightings, as well as the wounds of the people, imitating Jesus' wounds, plus all those bleeding carvings, issuing either blood or olive oil! Yes he can fool even----
Matthew 24:23-27 "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
Note: How can men read into that passage anything remotely the meaning of a "Secret Rapture?" Many a man has made a fortune writing about this stuff! BUT-----
Matthew 16:26 "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
QUESTION: "What do anti-counterfeiters study, the real of the fake bills? They study the real ONES! Just as we must study the real Jesus so we can recognize the the counterfeit one portrayed by Satan! And we have but one book to study Him from the Holy Bible! So get to know Him personally via the word and prayers and you'll not be fooled by an imitation!
Prayer is talking to and with a FRIEND!
Thank YOU for your time. Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
Need MORE? Visit your Seventh day Adventist church, any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10 AM. Please know God loves you much more than you can know!
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jb.
Need MORE? Visit your Seventh day Adventist church, any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10 AM. Please know God loves you much more than you can know!
Other sites: aftv.org blbn.org. amazingdiscoveries.org
jb.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
WM. MILLER"S, " RULES OF BIBLE INTERPRETATION"
My many thanks to "Lest We Forget" a Adventist historical newsletter PO.Box 383 Loma Linda, CA 92354 and the Heartland Institute. JB
The mid-1800's was a time of great religious awakening in the United States. During this period, three vital truths were discovered anew, resulting in a mighty spiritual revival. These truths dealt with the following subjects:
1. Bible Study. The Bible can be read and understood by ordinary people.
2. Prophetic Interpretation Bible prophecies can be understood using the day-for-a-year principle.
3. Second Advent Message, Jesus will return to redeem His faithful followers.
3. To understand Scripture, bring all the Scriptures together on the subject you wish to know. Precept upon precept.
Isaiah 28:9-10 "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:" Isaiah 28: 7-29; Luke 24:27,44-45; 2 Peter 1:19-20.
Note: LINE, came from the Hebrew word for cord, thin rope to tie all together in one understanding.
4. Scripture MUST be its own EXPOSITOR ( to prove itself, within itself) since it is a RULE unto itself.
1 Corinthians 2:12-16 "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.":
5. God, reveals things to come, by visions, in figures, parables.
Psalms 78:2 "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:" Hebrews 9:9-24; Genesis 41:1-32.
6. Figures (numbers) always have figurative meaning, and are used in prophecy to represent future things, times and events.
Daniel 2:35 "Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." [(JB) Nebuchadnezzar's dream The Metal Man.] Daniel 2:44; 7:8,17. Revelation 17:1,15.
7. Parables are used as comparison to illustrate subjects, and must be explained in the same way as figures, by the subject and Bible.
Mark 4:13-14 "And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word." Matthew 13:25-40 [Note tares, is a false wheat, of no use as food for man nor beast.]
8. Figures sometimes have two or more significant applications: as day is used in a figurative sense to represent three different periods of time: 1: indefinite. 2. Definite, a day for a year. 3. Day for a thousand years. Ecclesiastes 7:14; Ezekiel 4:6; 2 Peter 3:8
9. How to know when a word is used figuratively: "If it makes good sense as it stands and does not violate the simple laws of nature, then it must be understood literally; if not, figuratively. Revelation 12:1-2; 17:3-7.
10. To learn the true meaning of figures, trace your figurative word through the Bible {here's a good use of large book IE. Strong's Concordance} and where you do find it explained, put it on your figure, and if it makes good sense you need look no further; if not continue and look again! WHY?
Matthew 21:44 "And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder"
NOTE: This stone? Christ is our Rock., upon which His church is built! Rev. 12:17 (note the conditions that must exist, how many churches qualify? Very few! Find them by their following the Bible 100%!
11. If every word of prophecy is literally fulfilled, then your history is the true event. But if one word lacks fulfillment, then you must look for another event, or wait its future development. 1 Peter 2:6; Revelation 17:17.
12. The most important rule is that you MUST have faith. We must believe that God will never forfeit His word
I pray some will find this a help, in their journey through His Word John 1:1-3, 14.
Thank Y O U for your time, Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
Want more? Visit your seventh-day Adventist church any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10 AM, find out just how Jesus loves you.
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jb
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The mid-1800's was a time of great religious awakening in the United States. During this period, three vital truths were discovered anew, resulting in a mighty spiritual revival. These truths dealt with the following subjects:
1. Bible Study. The Bible can be read and understood by ordinary people.
2. Prophetic Interpretation Bible prophecies can be understood using the day-for-a-year principle.
3. Second Advent Message, Jesus will return to redeem His faithful followers.
WITH THESE THREE GUIDELINES IN FOCUS COMES HIS 12 POINTS TO FOLLOW:
NOTE: Please know that I have used ONLY the KJV Bible as all , but a few others, suffer from the Traditions of men! They have greatly removed Christ's role, and have changed meanings beyond recognition
EXAMPLE: Ephesians 5:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:14, Hebrews 6:12 the word, " FOLLOWER".HAS BEEN CHANGED, IN THE new KING JAMES AS IT IS IN THE N. I. V. { not inspired version) "IMITATOR"! Now many may say minor detail, but if one is a follower of Jesus Christ, then why be an imitator of Him, in place of a follower? The "NEW K. James, in Hebrews 9:12 "The holy place, is changed to "The Most Holy Place, an impossible translation error, from the Greek "TA HAGIA" is the Tabernacle's FIRST apartment, where the Priest interned into daily, but the SECOND, the MOST HOLY is "HAGIA HAGION" and this was entered ONLY once a year on the Day of Atonement! Jesus entered that Section only in 1848" {Study Daniel 7 +.)The Popes think they are God, on earth, that's imitations! We are to follow Him not be His leaders. (JB).
1. 2 Timothy 3:15-17 "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
All scripture is necessary, and may be understood by diligent application and study. Please note (jb) there's a huge difference between reading and studying! Unless, of course God has blessed you with perfect memory recall!
2. Nothing revealed in the Scripture will be hid from those who ask in faith, not wavering.
Deuteronomy 29:29 "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." Matthew 21:22; James 1:5-6.
All scripture is necessary, and may be understood by diligent application and study. Please note (jb) there's a huge difference between reading and studying! Unless, of course God has blessed you with perfect memory recall!
2. Nothing revealed in the Scripture will be hid from those who ask in faith, not wavering.
Deuteronomy 29:29 "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." Matthew 21:22; James 1:5-6.
3. To understand Scripture, bring all the Scriptures together on the subject you wish to know. Precept upon precept.
Isaiah 28:9-10 "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:" Isaiah 28: 7-29; Luke 24:27,44-45; 2 Peter 1:19-20.
Note: LINE, came from the Hebrew word for cord, thin rope to tie all together in one understanding.
4. Scripture MUST be its own EXPOSITOR ( to prove itself, within itself) since it is a RULE unto itself.
1 Corinthians 2:12-16 "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.":
5. God, reveals things to come, by visions, in figures, parables.
Psalms 78:2 "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:" Hebrews 9:9-24; Genesis 41:1-32.
6. Figures (numbers) always have figurative meaning, and are used in prophecy to represent future things, times and events.
Daniel 2:35 "Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." [(JB) Nebuchadnezzar's dream The Metal Man.] Daniel 2:44; 7:8,17. Revelation 17:1,15.
7. Parables are used as comparison to illustrate subjects, and must be explained in the same way as figures, by the subject and Bible.
Mark 4:13-14 "And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word." Matthew 13:25-40 [Note tares, is a false wheat, of no use as food for man nor beast.]
8. Figures sometimes have two or more significant applications: as day is used in a figurative sense to represent three different periods of time: 1: indefinite. 2. Definite, a day for a year. 3. Day for a thousand years. Ecclesiastes 7:14; Ezekiel 4:6; 2 Peter 3:8
9. How to know when a word is used figuratively: "If it makes good sense as it stands and does not violate the simple laws of nature, then it must be understood literally; if not, figuratively. Revelation 12:1-2; 17:3-7.
10. To learn the true meaning of figures, trace your figurative word through the Bible {here's a good use of large book IE. Strong's Concordance} and where you do find it explained, put it on your figure, and if it makes good sense you need look no further; if not continue and look again! WHY?
Matthew 21:44 "And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder"
NOTE: This stone? Christ is our Rock., upon which His church is built! Rev. 12:17 (note the conditions that must exist, how many churches qualify? Very few! Find them by their following the Bible 100%!
11. If every word of prophecy is literally fulfilled, then your history is the true event. But if one word lacks fulfillment, then you must look for another event, or wait its future development. 1 Peter 2:6; Revelation 17:17.
12. The most important rule is that you MUST have faith. We must believe that God will never forfeit His word
I pray some will find this a help, in their journey through His Word John 1:1-3, 14.
Thank Y O U for your time, Questions? Comments? John at servant@frontier.com
Want more? Visit your seventh-day Adventist church any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10 AM, find out just how Jesus loves you.
Other sites: aftv.org; blbn.org amazingdiscoveries.org ; itiswritten.com
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