Saturday, May 10, 2014

To the Word: The Bible




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








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