Principles for Bible study: Continuity
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Intro: Continuity is the “unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over a period of time”. In our last study we looked at how the Bible is consistent, continuity is the what I would call the flow of that consistency. Meaning, that the message that God gives us through His word is constant. It is important that we understand that although our knowledge of God increases every day, and throughout history God revealed Himself more and more through the revelation of His word, that God has never changed.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Theology, “so called” will try and teach you that there are abrupt changes in the Scriptures. For example, maybe the most popular case today is “replacement theology”.
In Revelation 2:9 “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.”
The abrupt change is that God is finished with Israel and that He has replaced them with His church. Meaning that every promise, and every curse that belonged to Israel, now belongs to us, but understanding that the Bible.
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Continuity tells us that what God has promised to the nation of Israel still belongs to the nation of Israel. Romans 9:4 says, “to whom pertaineth” and the context is the nation of Israel. It is interesting that the same people that would teach that God would change His plan for the nation of Israel, also teach that God would never change His plan for His church…
Bible Example of what is Bible continuity:
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
Yet he opened not his mouth:
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
So he openeth not his mouth.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
God’s plan has always been through His Lamb!
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
