Why the Bible is Right
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But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
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, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Introduction.
Introduction.
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We must have a Foundation for Faith. Faith is not based on anything but what God said.
Abraham believed God. God spoke to Him and his works showed he believed.
If you don’t know what God has said you can’t know how to please Him. If you don’t know how to please God, you might as well eat, drink and be merry.
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John Wesley once wrote: “I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit, coming from God, and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf; a few months hence I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing—the way to heaven … God Himself has condescended to teach the way. He hath written it down in a book. O give me that Book! At any price, give me the book of God!”85
The Old Testament was cloudy, the New Testament was a more sure Word of Prophecy.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Verse 21. For the prophecy came not in old time] That is, in any former time, by the will of man—by a man’s own searching, conjecture, or calculation; but holy men of God—persons separated from the world, and devoted to God’s service, spake, moved by the Holy Ghost. So far were they from inventing these prophetic declarations concerning Christ, or any future event, that they were φερομενοι, carried away, out of themselves and out of the whole region, as it were, of human knowledge and conjecture, by the Holy Ghost, who, without their knowing any thing of the matter, dictated to them what to speak, and what to write; and so far above their knowledge were the words of the prophecy, that they did not even know the intent of those words, but searched what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Example: David prophesied of Christ, and had no idea what He was saying.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted in the midst of my bowels.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me: The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: They pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: They look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them, And cast lots upon my vesture.
And the very day that they were singing the Psalm, the 22nd Psalm, “My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken Me? All My bones they stare at Me.” “Not one bone shall be broken.”
The very song that they were repeating in the temple, there hung the Sacrifice screaming the very words that David said eight hundred years before, and was too blind to see it.
And, today, the very God that spoke of this age is on the scene doing exactly what He said He would do, and they’re too blind to see it. That’s unbelievers.
They walk out and say, “Oh, I can’t believe stuff like That. I never heard of That in my life!” Don’t make any difference what you heard. The Bible said It would be here, and it’s His Word. 63-1124E - Three Kinds Of Believers
They read the original scrolls of psalms, that had been carefully copied word for word over generations. they committed these Scriptures to memory, but they could not see who He was, because they were blind.
And there was God standing there, revealing that Word, crying, “My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?” The very songs they were singing in the temple, that David had made for them years ago, pertaining to Christ.
“All My bones they stare at Me. They pierced My hands and My feet.” And there they was standing there, singing that, and the very Man dying on the cross.
When He died, the God of Heaven come down, like He did on Mount Sinai, with Holy Fire, and burnt that temple veil from top to bottom, tore it apart. And what could they do? Look right there out of the temple window, on Calvary, and there was God in plain view, the Sacrifice.
But they don’t see It yet, today. God in this last day has rent those traditions away, and brought the Word for this age right plain in view, and they still don’t know It. They just don’t know It. It’s so simple. 64-0614M - The Unveiling Of God
God interprets His Word by bringing it to pass, Satan interprets by reason.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
He’s trying to tell her she misunderstood, or it was mistranslated.
Faith believes, a God that can make me, can keep that Book in the order for me to live by. If the God Who made me is going to judge me, can’t keep His Book in order, then He’s a very poor God.
I believe every Word of It is the Truth. Yes, sir. What does this do, to believe that? It gives faith a perfect resting place in It. See? You cannot disbelieve, that that Word is messed with, in any way. You got to believe It just the way It is. 62-0401 - Wisdom Versus Faith
a. The Men Who Wrote the Old Testament Were Holy Men of God.
b. What they Wrote was so Inspired that they didn’t even know What it Meant.
c. What they Wrote was manifested in the Life of Jesus Christ.
Then said I, Lo, I come: In the volume of the book it is written of me,
He is the principal theme of the entire Bible. If you read the Bible, and don’t see Christ in every verse of It, go back and read It again. If you can’t see Christ in every verse of the Bible, then you read It again, because you missed something.
The Bible is Christ. He is the Word. When you read, “In the beginning God created,” there is Christ. From that, to the “Amen” in Revelation, is every Word testifying of Jesus Christ. 63-0728 - Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed
This is why the Maccabees and other books are not in the Scripture, they do not reveal Christ. The theme is Christ.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
In Genesis He is the Creator.
In Exodus He is the Deliverer.
In Leviticus He is the Lawgiver.
In Numbers He is the Brass Serpent.
In Deuteronomy He is a prophet like Moses.
In Joshua He is Jehovah Saviour
In Judges He is the Angel giving Encouragement to Gideon.
In Ruth He is the Kinsman Redeemer.
In Samuel, Kings and Chronicles He is the Rejected King.
In Ezra and Nehemiah He is the Builder.
In Esther He is the King with a Scepter.
In Job He is the Redeemer of the Body.
In Psalms He is Crucified.
In Proverbs and Ecclesiastes He is Wisdom.
In the Song of Solomon He is the Bridegroom.
In Isaiah He is God’s Servant.
In Jeremiah He is the Root and Branch of Jesse.
In Lamentations He is the Weeping Prophet.
In Ezekiel He is the Wheel in the middle of the Wheel.
In Daniel He is the Ancient of Days.
In Hosea He is a Loving Husband.
in Joel He is the Restorer.
In Amos He is the Roaring Lion.
In Obadiah He Possesses His Kingdom
In Jonah He is the Resurrection Sign.
In Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Haggai He is the Righteous Judge, and the One Who Will Not Forget His People.
In Zechariah He is the Golden Lampstand, the Headstone and the Fountain for sin.
In Malachi He is the Message proclaimed by the Messenger.
No wonder He could say “This Day this Scripture is fulfilled”.
The New Testament
The New Testament
a. Written by Holy Men Of God.
b. Written under Inspiration.
c. Manifested in Your Life.
And when Jesus came, He was the Word in Its fullness, because the whole plan of redemption laid in Him. The whole plan of redemption didn’t lay in Moses, didn’t lay in Joseph, didn’t lay in Elijah. See, they were only part of the Word, pointing to It.
Therefore, after Him, the Fullness, we cannot point to something else. It points back to Him, the Word. [Brother Branham picks up his Bible—Ed.]
This is the complete Revelation; nothing can be added or taken away from It. There is the complete Revelation.
All that, a shadow of Him to come; but when He come, He was the Perfect. Hebrews 1, “God in sundry times spoke to the fathers through the prophets,” God spoke through veils, the prophets, “but in this last days through His Son, Jesus Christ.” There you are. Unveiled out there on Calvary, the Son of God, unveiled.
Notice, “made alive.” And, today, when the Word is manifested in human vessels, veils, it’s absolutely the Word fulfilled in that day, which comes back to God. Being baptized into Him, according to First Corinthians 12, we become identified with Him. Amen. 64-0614M - The Unveiling Of God
We are living epistles. Walking Word. The fleshly veil of the Unseen God.
The Prophets were only part of the Old Testament Word but Jesus was all the Word. The Denominations could only live that part of the New Testament Word they saw, but we can live all the Word.
The mysteries was in the Seven Seals. When these Seven Seals was opened, that opened up the entire Bible.
The Seven Seals; It was sealed with Seven Mysteries, and in these Seven Seals held the entire mystery of It. And it was the Book of Redemption, New Testament. 63-1110M - Souls That Are In Prison Now
The Old Testament is the shadow, the New Testament is the reality.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
What about Translations?
And we find now in the Old Testament…There’s many words in our new King James Version that seems very strange. But for me, the rest of you brethren can teach from any version you want to, but I like the King James. Just seems more like the Bible to me. 57-0807 - Hear Ye Him
(Greek vs. Aramaic)
However, before we get too concerned about this, let us read both the King James version and the translation by Dr. Lamsa. To our gratification we find the words in both amazingly the same so that there is no difference actually in content or doctrine.
We may even conclude that God has allowed these newly discovered manuscripts and recent publications of already known scripts to come before us to prove the authenticity of what we already had. And we find that though translators may fight each other, scripts do not. CAB 01 - Revelation
The reason you think there is a problem is because you’re reading it wrong.
You don’t read the Bible like a legal document or a Newspaper.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Read between the lines.
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Mortimer J. Adler, in How to Read a Book, has observed that the one time people read for all they are worth is when they are in love and are reading a love letter. They read every word three ways. They read between the lines and in the margins. They read the whole in terms of the parts, and each part in terms of the whole. They grow sensitive to context and ambiguity, to insinuation and implication. They perceive the color of words, the order of phrases, and the weight of sentences. They may even take the punctuation into account. Then, if never before or after, they read carefully and in depth.
That’s the way you know this love Book of God’s. Reason it’s so complicated to people, you’re not in love with Christ. You say it contradicts itself and all this. You’re just not in love with the Author; that’s all. It’s a love Letter. 61-0226 - Jehovah-Jireh
Revelation only comes from the Author Himself.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
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.
When you get that revelation it will line up from Genesis to Revelation.
What about the Message?
The Message is light on the Scriptures. Not Satan’s false light, but God’s promised light.
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, Not day, nor night: But it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
The warning.
This isn’t just any Book. Don’t mess with it! It’s life or death.
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.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon called “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God”. He took the text:
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; Their foot shall slide in due time: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Today the Bible is mocked, ridiculed, torn apart. But their foot shall slide in due time.
Tonight, my brethren, your soul is over hell on a chain. And that chain is not some theological seminary’s teaching, that chain is not some denomination or some creed that you’re living by, that chain is God’s Word! 64-1221 - Why It Had To Be Shepherd
It’s a chain. You’re hanging over hell with it, and that’s the only thing that’ll carry you through. When the believer becomes a make-believer and lives on one word that’s contrary to this Word, he cuts his fellowship with God. One link broke!
A chain is its strongest at its weakest link. That’s right. It’s the strongest, that, ’cause that’s all it’ll hold. And if there is something in the Word that’s puzzling to you, something that you have heard different, but they said, “Thee? Oh, that was for the apostles, and them things was for days gone by,”
when the Scripture said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, don’t let that be a weakness! Fortify It and hold It, and wrap your life into It, because that’s the only thing that’ll take you over the flames of hell. 64-1212 - The Harvest Time