Christian Study

I have written about this before, but it seems to keep coming up.

Isaiah 28:11 "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people."

The foreign language the scripture is written in is English. Most of the Christian world can read English, but people have been given the wrong definitions for many words in scripture. Some words have changed meaning. Awesome now means the opposite of its original meaning. Gentile has changed over the years as well. At one time Gentile included Christians. The word written in scripture does not mean non-Jew. The word Jew as we know it today is not even in the Bible.

Most churches teach a spiritualized scripture where most of the true meaning of scripture is lost. This makes the gospel very politically correct. If those who hate Christ tolerate or don’t mind your church then its teachings are likely watered down to the point that they are worthless. Most Christian radio stations and colleges are controlled by the anti-Christ to keep them teaching the watered down gospel. There is no power in a watered down gospel.

The spiritualized scripture has turned the Bible into a parable for most Christians.

Matthew 13:13  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Mark 16:15 "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

Here is an example of Matthew 16:15. “All” in the phrase “all the world” means absolutely all. The word translated world though is not the entire physical planet. It means the “orderly arrangement” or “society” or a “group”. Every in “every creature” is not absolutely every creature. Every is translated from the Greek word pas which means part of all, every or whosoever. Creature is translated from a word that means original formation and has a root word meaning through the idea of the proprietorship of the manufacturer.

The concept is to preach the gospel and then move on. The scripture does not teach that one must take up permanent residence and help the gospel through constant pushing and rewards. The gospel is meant to take root and grow among a group on its own. It has done that for almost two thousand years when taken to the right people. Think about the history of where the gospel has been preached. It literally was not meant for every biped on the planet. Christ told us for whom the gospel was intended.

Matthew 15:24  "But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

The word sheep in Matthew 15:24 and elsewhere is defined by scripture. It is not anyone anywhere. Here is my current list of words that must be understood based on the definitions found in scripture. Adoption, glory, covenants, Law, service of God, promises, elect, called, children, firstborn, chosen, royal priesthood, holy nation, peculiar or special treasure, treasure, grapes, olives, even wild olives and sheep. Afar off and those near. Brother and neighbor. “Not a people”, food, Jew, and Gentile. I’m sure there are more.

If you want to know what the scripture says and means you might have to actually read it and study it on your own. Your preacher is just repeating what he was taught by the school he went to and what the church that pays his salary expects to hear.

“Jesus told His disciples, “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you…”(John 15:16). This is a subjective statement, and not an objective one. This becomes a matter of doctrine. Do you follow the “people choosing God” notion, or do you surrender to the scriptural “people chosen of God” doctrine? Your answer will determine whether you think the word “whosoever” applies to anyone who confesses Christ (the people choosing God notion), or whether you embrace the revealed, “people chosen of God doctrine.” A. Kennedy.

So when one reads a verse that says Whosoever, Everyone or All one must keep in mind that the scripture teaches that ultimately God is the one who chooses. The context of scripture is exclusive, not inclusive.

John 6:44 "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day."

God chose Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Isaac chose Esau, but Esau despised his birthright. Esau gave his seed to forbidden people breaking God’s Law. Isaac should have then given the blessing to Jacob. Rebekah and Jacob tricked Isaac to make sure the blessing went to Jacob. God renamed Jacob Israel. Israel means “Ruling with God”. From this point on to the end of Revelation, the scripture is about God and Israel. God even married Israel as a people and is remarrying Israel today as they become Christians. Esau hates God. God hates Esau. Esau hates Jacob. Everything that is going on today has to do with Esau trying to destroy Jacob/Israel.

Esau is Edom, Genesis 36. “Edom is in modern Jewry”, Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, p. 41.

Scripture says that Israel would not know who they were in the later days and that Israel would take the Gospel to the world while forming many Christian nations. All of this has happened.

Our job today is to help Israel remember who they are and that they need to obey God’s Law. True physical Israel is today found as the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Celtic, Scandinavian and related peoples.

I have said in the past that there was no Hebrew word for uncle. That was true before Israel spent four hundred years in Egypt.

Abraham’s brother, Haran, had three children, Milcah, Lot and Sarah. At that time it was common to refer to nephews and nieces as brothers and sisters. Lot is called Abraham’s brother and his brother’s son in scripture.

Genesis 11:27-30  Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Here is a similar passage from Jasher.

Jasher 9:14 And Haran, the son of Terah, Abram’s oldest brother, took a wife in those days. Haran was thirty-nine years old when he took her; and the wife of Haran conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Lot. And she conceived again and bare a daughter, and she called her name Milca; and she again conceived and bare a daughter, and she called her name Sarai. Haran was forty-two years old when he begat Sarai, which was in the tenth year of the life of Abram; and in those days Abram and his mother and nurse went out from the cave, as the king and his subjects had forgotten the affair of Abram.

Jasher 12:44 And at that time Nahor and Abram took unto themselves wives, the daughters of their brother Haran; the wife of Nahor was Milca and the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai. And Sarai, wife of Abram, was barren; she had no offspring in those days.

It may have been a common practice for a man’s brother to marry one or more of his daughters. Scripture allows it. The practice kept the family close and a man always knew his daughters were being protected. We know it happened. Here is the Hebrew word translated uncle.

H1730
From an unused root meaning properly to boil, that is, (figuratively) to love; by implication a love token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle.
Total KJV occurrences: 61

Interesting. Reading all the verses with the word bears it out. Here is one of many excamples.

2 Kings 24:17  And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother(H1730) king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

In the Song of Solomon the Shulamite calls her lover using the same Hebrew word here translated as My Beloved.

Song of Solomon 2:10  My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 

Traditionally in Patriarchy there is a special relationship between a man’s children and his siblings. It is only in recent years that the media and sin have cast this relationship in a bad light. Television and movies have gone out of their way to make even love between parents or any older adults seem disgusting to teens. Remember that both Abraham and Isaac married a niece. I am writing about a time when men were moral and of good character. Because of much sin in our society today I must emphasize that the love being discussed is between those who are of the scriptural age of accountability or deemed mature enough to be accountable.

It will never be the religious leaders who bring national revival.

What happened when Christ came? Some wise men came and inquired about the birth of the Christ. Never once does the scripture suggest that any of the religious leaders investigated what the wise men said. Later when Christ was teaching the religious leaders were only concerned about their position.

John 11:48  If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

Later when the Apostles were preaching it was much the same.

Acts 4:21  So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

The miracles performed by Christ and His Apostles only concerned them because it might affect their position of leadership and the status quo.

This is also the why behind new information being introduced to most “Christian” churches today is rejected. It destroys the status quo and usually ends up with the preacher losing his income, half the congregation leaving or both.

The best example we have in scripture of a religious revival besides Christ was with King Hezekiah. Read the version of the story in 2 Chronicles 28 – 30. No, he wasn’t perfect. Recently we’ve had a president that disturbed the status quo. He isn’t perfect either as his ties to those who are anti-Christ is strong. He did put money toward religious freedom and removed money from evil. Much of that has now been undone.

Remember it is God who saves. God does use men, but it is still only God who saves.

John 5:8 “Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.”

Jesus healed a man and then told him to take his mattress and walk.

The Pharisees said that was a Sabbath violation. Christ never taught against God’s Law, Christ’s own Law. The Pharisees added their tradition to the Law of God. The Sabbath Day’s journey is an example. God’s Law nowhere includes any statute about how far one is to travel on a Sabbath. The idea is to rest, not travel on the Sabbath. This was Pharisaical tradition added to promote violation of God’s Law.

The Pharisees taught their own version of the Law. That is very common today as many churches add their own ideas for membership, doctrine and tradition.