Greetings, brothers and sisters:
I pray that the glorious light of our
God by Christ shines in your hearts today and every day.
The world is becoming more chaotic and
uncertain as world events begin to unfold before our eyes. In
unstable times as these, we who trust in God would be wise to draw closer
to him by his word: the Holy Bible.
It is critical, however, that we
understand without any doubt that the Bible, this book of prophecy,
is not the work of men or a fictional masterpiece. The Bible was
composed and compiled from ancient times by holy men, who spake as
they were directed by the Holy Spirit of God(2 Pet. 1:20-21). The
words written did not come out from their own minds (1 Cor.14:36-38);
God inspired them to write it ( 2 Tim. 3:16). God's words came to man,
it did not come out of man. This understanding of how God's word comes to us also enlighten us to
the errors of the modern-day prophets, who claim to tell new
prophecies outside of God's written words found in the holy
scriptures. First we must understand that the Bible is complete. There are no new prophecies today.
The will and purpose of God for all mankind and his whole creation is
found written in the books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
Furthermore, God strictly warns us in his word not to add or subtract anything
from the text of the Bible, lest one loses his reward in the kingdom
of Christ and receives the curses and the plagues written in it for doing this (
Revelation 22:19-20). The fact that God warns against altering his
words by adding and subtracting from it implies it is complete. Also, we must
realize that the prophets or holy men of old-Joshua, Samuel,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zephaniah and so on, did not add
or subtract from the words and commandments God gave to Moses,
they only expounded on it. Moses, from the book of Genesis through
Deuteronomy wrote not only the commandments of God, but he wrote about the
prophecies God revealed to him also. Why, even Christ did not add
unto Moses or what Moses wrote, but only expounded on it and fulfilled the
prophecies written in it (John 5:45-47, Matt 5:17-18, Luke 24: 25-27, 36-48).
Drawing closer to God by
faith in his word as truth and our guiding light in the darkness of these
times will protect us from the many false prophets that are here now
and shall arise as we go on(Matt. 24:11). It will also guide us away from the
deception of false Christians and false Christ( Matt. 24:5, 1John
2:18-19). And, this we will be able to do because we know that if they don't speak and do according
to His Word, it is because there is no light in them (Isaiah 8:20).
We hold a gem in our hands, a most
precious pearl: the word of God. Open the Bible today, brethren, and
read it and do what is written in it, for no prophecy of God will
fail( Isaiah 34:16). Remember, the
Word has always been with God from the
beginning, and the Word was God. And it is this Word that was made
flesh(a human-being-Yahawahshi, Christ) and dwelt among us-in the first century
A.D.,(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and truth.( John 1:1, 14)
We do well, Brethren, if we continue
with him by God's word, the Holy Scriptures, unto the end ( Matt.24:13).
Shalam,
May God Bless and keep you always, till
we meet again,
Zarach
