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THE ENSIGN MESSAGE

WHAT IS THE BIBLE ALL ABOUT?

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U.S.A

There was a time that almost every family had at least one Bible in their home. Many times it just laid there gathering dust and was hardly ever opened. Many felt that they were getting the Word by attending church  and  Bible school  every Sunday.  Regardless of the many errors contained therein, I still  use  the KJV that is 1,600 pages long. If you were seen reading the Bible and someone were to ask you what the Bible is all about, how would you answer him? After reading and studying the Bible for over thirty years I would give him the following book review.

From Genesis one to Genesis 12:3 it tells of the creation of the heavens and the earth. No one can tell how many thousands of years passed before the creation of Adamic man. Genesis 5:1 says, “This is the book of the  generations  of Adam”, and  not the  book of any other race on earth. Then he goes on to tell us of Noah’s time and the tower incident at Babylon. It could  have been eons  that  passed  between  Genesis 1 and 12.

In Genesis 12:3 is when God called Abram to bring about the plans he had in mind for us laid down from the foundation of the world.  From this point on to the end of Revelation  the  Bible becomes  a story of one  man’s family, Abraham and  His children.  There is a reason that Abraham is mentioned  66 times  in the N.T. God has always had a people, the same people he had from the  beginning, as  he  never had to go to any other people on earth to follow Him and fulfil his plan for the ages. Every writer of the Bible was an Israelite and it was addressed only to Israel. I feel that it is important to mention Deuteronomy 4:8

“And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day”.

This is one of the greatest gifts he gave us, the same gift that thousands of today’s preachers attack with fervor  as  they  prefer  man’s laws.  His laws should never be looked down upon as a curse or burden to us. There are dozens of things I would like to mention in this paragraph, but we’ll go on  to the  next subject.

The Bible is also a tale of two cities that runs from Genesis to Revelation, ancient Babylon and the old city of Jerusalem. In the N.T. they are called Mystery Babylon and the New Jerusalem. Mystery Babylon is not a city or a  geographical  spot on  the globe, but  a political, economic and religious system that controls the world, also referred to as the beast system. In I Chronicles 17:9, when Nathan  told  David while standing in Jerusalem

“Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell  in their place, and shall move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them  any more , as  at the  beginning.”

  This was  important  enough  to repeat it in II Samuel 7:10. The old Jerusalem is out of the picture now as Christ said it will be as  Shiloh where His spirit would no longer dwell. No preachers like to mention or comment on these two verses as it would give the lie to their eschatology. It appears that America was the last place that we moved to and our early Americans referred to this land as the New Israel. When reading the prophets it describes this land as well as the people that are repeating the same things our ancestors did. These  were  not ignorant  people that felt that way, as Thomas Jefferson recounting the life of George Washington, wrote in a letter to a Dr. Walter Jones, ended his letter with these words

“I felt on his death, with my fellow countrymen that a great man hath fallen today in Israel”.

The pastors  today have done a great job by hiding things in plain sight. There is much more that I could add to this but I’ll go onto another part of this review.

The Bible is also a story of two brothers that also runs from Genesis to Revelation, The brothers of course are Jacob and Esau. It’s the story of the primal birthright  that Esau is doing everything  he can  to get it back. At this point in time Jacob-Israel is in bondage and under the control of Esau-Edom, trying to bring in their counterfeit kingdom , called the New World Order. The good news is that they will fail. It is amazing how so many of today’s pastors cannot identify the descendants of  Jacob-Israel  or  Esau-Edom.  These two brothers have played a  tremendous  role in what has happened to us over the last one hundred years. Again there is much more  to be added  to this  also.

There is a national message to Israel that runs through the entire Bible that is never to be mentioned in our pulpits today, as everything is directed at the individual. That brings us to the doctrine of redemption. If you check your Bible, the terms “redeem”, “redeemed”, and “redemption”, always  refers to Israel. It is not a synonym for salvation. We have not been redeemed yet as it is still in the future.  We are now under the debt bondage of the cursed us ury, but He says We will be redeemed without silver or gold, which means those debts will all be  cancelled  by  Him.  At the end of the age we are to Look up, for our redemption draweth  nigh.  This  has  not  happened and we have  not been  redeemed  yet.

Last , but by no means least, it is the story of Christ from the time of Moses to the end of the  Bible, and His plan for our salvation that  is  manifested throughout the Word. As Matthew said in 1:21,

“He shall save His people from their sins.”

As you can see, this does not seem to be a Universal statement. I will not spend time on salvation as it has been exploited behind over 100,000 pulpits almost  every  Sunday along with TV and radio stations from coast to coast. Some of these ministries have made millions by just concentrating on it.  It  has  gotten  to the  point  that many feel that it is the only reason we have the Bible as they now feel that there is no responsibility on their part for the rapid decline of our once great Christian nation and they are no longer the salt of the earth as the Christians of just a few hundred years ago.  Many there are  that feel  that  “I’m saved”, and  “I’m going to heaven” and that’s all I need to know. It’s no wonder our nation that has adapted and  follow  the  new beliefs of Judeo-Christianity is on a fast track to hell in the last hundred years.

In short, the Bible is the story of one man’s family, a tale of two cities, the age long battle for the primal birthright between two brothers , and Christ’s plan of both redemption and salvation for His people . Everything else in the Bible touches on one or more of the things I have listed, with the exception of the personal issues addressed to us, especially in the N.T. The Bible contains all the answers as to why we are no longer under God’s blessings as we once were, when we followed His absolutes.

I can see a plot that runs through the entire Bible, but intentionally  concealed  by our  shepherds to make it appear  that  the  Bible  is lacking  a  consistent theme.

If anyone feels he can come up with a better answer to the question, What is the Bible all about? and thinks he can explain it better in two pages, I would like to hear from him.

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