Bible Study verses Indoctrination
Part 2 of 3
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| Earl Gillespie |
There are people in my life who are sick and dying and they are
searching for a message of hope. There
is a message of hope within the Bible, but many are finding it hard to grasp
the relevancy of the Holy scriptures because charlatans have come in and began
to misuse and abuse their position and began to teach a polluted Gospel. Many are writing checks in the name of God
and God is not honoring those checks. “God said” and “God did”, has become clichés or
cookie cutter phrases. The Gospel of Grace is not about graduating
from college. The Gospel of Grace is not
about giving money, it is not about getting stuff from God. The Gospel of Grace is not about being
healed. The Gospel of Grace is that good news that one need to hear when they
are preparing to come before the judgment seat of God. According to Hebrews 9:27, “ And as it is appointed unto men once to
die, but after this the judgment.” Luke
9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he
gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? What good is a Gospel of Prosperity when the world is facing judgement? One
does not need to believe in God to be successful in life. Therefore it is moot to teach that if you
want a better life in this world you need to serve God. The promise Jesus made in his message to the churches in Revelation,
was, “… be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” This is the Gospel of Grace.
There is a tendency to read the scripture and read what we want into
it. This is easily done, if we search
the scripture in search of a verse or word to support our ideology, we will
find what we are looking for. If you
study the scripture to grasp a deeper understanding of God Word, you will be
amazed at what you will learn. The focus
of this study is Bible study verses indoctrination. This is part 2 of a 3 part
study. We will continue with a closer an
detail study of the structure of the Bible.
This is important if we are to follow the guidelines set forth in 2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
In the Bible, we
find four dominate persons: God the
Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and Satan. There
are three specific places: Heaven, Earth and Hell. There are four distinct groups of people
named and dealt with, the heavenly host, the Jews, the Gentile, and the New
Testament Church. The Old Testament and
The New Testament are two halves of a complete whole. The three kinds of languages used in the word
of God are, Figurative, Symbolic and Literal.
These types of languages are the cause of many errors when interpreting the
words of the Holy Scripture. When
studying the Word of God we must be very careful to avoid misinterpreting the
Scripture, misapplying the scripture and mislocated meanings of the scriptures.
If we can accept that Israel of the Old testament was God’s chosen
people and they were not replaced by the Gentiles or the church. We can should also be able to accept that the
appointed mission of Israel was, and this mission has not been superseded by
the church or the Gentile.
The appointed mission of Israel is as follows:
(1) To be a witness to the unity of God in the midst of idolatry Deuteronomy
6:4-5 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God
is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
(2) To illustrate to the nations the greater blessedness of serving
the one true Deuteronomy 33:26-29 There
is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help,
and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath
are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee;
and shall say, Destroy them. Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the
fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall
drop down dew. Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved
by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! And
thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their
high places.; 1Ch 17:20-21; Ps 102:15);
(3) To receive and preserve the Divine revelation. Romans
3:1-2 What advantage then hath the Jew?
or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that
unto them were committed the oracles of God.; and
(4) To produce the Messiah, earth's Saviour and Lord (Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the
adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the
service of God, and the promises;). The prophets foretell a glorious future for
Israel under the reign of Christ. The biblical story of Israel, past, present,
and future, falls into seven distinct periods:
Many of the prophecies pertaining to the Children of Israel is yet to be
fulfilled.
(1) From the call of Abram (Gen 12) to the Exodus (Ex. 1-20);
(2) From the Exodus to the death of Joshua (Ex 21 to Josh 24);
(3) From the death of Joshua to the establishment of the Hebrew
monarchy under Saul;
(4) The period of the kings from Saul to the Captivities;
(5) The period of the Captivities;
(6) The restored commonwealth from the end of the Babylonian captivity
of Judah, to the destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70;
(7) The present dispersion. The Gospels record the appearance in human
history and within the Hebrew nation of the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ, and
tells the wonderful story of his manifestation to Israel, his rejection by his
brethren, his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. The Acts of the
Apostles record the descent of the Holy Spirit, and the beginning of a new
thing in human history. That new thing
was the Church. The division of the race now becomes threefold--the Jew, the
Gentile, and the Church of God. The Jews
and the Gentiles are earthly people, the church is spiritual, both Jews and
Gentiles. Just as Israel is in the
foreground from the call of Abram to the resurrection of Christ, so now the
Church fills the scene from the second chapter of the Acts to the fourth
chapter of the Revelation. This is the Dispensation of Grace.
The remaining chapters of that book complete
the story of humanity and the final triumph of Christ. Fifth. The Central Theme
of the Bible is Christ. It is this manifestation of Jesus Christ, his Person as
"God manifest in the flesh" (1Ti 3:16), his sacrificial death, and
his resurrection, which constitute the Gospel of Grace. All
preceding Scriptures lead to, and all
following Scriptures proceed his death, resurrection and ascension. The
Gospel is preached in the Acts and it is explained in the Epistles. Christ, Son of God, Son of man, Son of
Abraham, Son of David, this connection binds the many books into one Book. The seed of the woman (Ge 3:15) he is the
ultimate destroyer of Satan and his works; Seed of Abraham he is the world
blesser; Seed of David he is Israel's King. "Desire of all Nations."
Exalted to the right hand of God he is "head of the Church, which is his
body," while to Israel and the nations the promise of his return forms the
one and only rational expectation that humanity will yet fulfil itself. Joel
3:1-2 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again
the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather ALL NATIONS, and will
bring them down into the `Valley of Jehoshaphat,' and will plead with them
there for MY PEOPLE and for my heritage ISRAEL, whom they have scattered among
the Nations, and parted my land."
This is a prophecy yet to be fulfilled.
Meanwhile the Church looks
for the fulfillment of a special promise: "I will come again and receive
you unto myself" (Joh 14:1-3). To him the Holy Spirit throughout this
Gospel of Grace age bears testimony. 1
Thessalonians 4:16-18 For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
The last book of all, the Consummation of all things, is "The
Revelation of Jesus Christ" (Re 1:1).
The five books ascribed to Moses have a peculiar place in the
structure of the Bible, and an order which is undeniably the order of the
experience of the people of God in all ages. Genesis is the book of origins--of
the beginning of life, and of ruin through sin. Its first word, "In the
beginning God," is in striking contrast with the end, "In a coffin in
Egypt." Exodus is the book of redemption, the first need of a ruined race.
Leviticus is the book of worship and communion, the proper exercise of the
redeemed. The Book of Numbers speaks of
the experiences of a pilgrim people, the redeemed passing through a hostile
scene to a promised earthly inheritance. Deuteronomy, retrospective and
prospective, is a book of instruction for the redeemed about to enter that
earthly inheritance. That Babylonian and Assyrian monuments contain records
bearing a grotesque resemblance to the majestic account of the creation and of
the Flood is true, as also that these antedate Moses. But this confirms rather
than invalidates inspiration of the Mosaic account. Some tradition of creation
and the Flood would inevitably be handed down in the ancient cradle of the
race. Such a tradition, following the
order of all traditions, would take on grotesque and morphological features,
and these are found in the Babylonian records. Of necessity, therefore, the
first task of inspiration would be to replace the often absurd and childish
traditions with a revelation of the true history, and such a history we find in
the words of matchless grandeur, and in an order which, rightly understood, is
absolutely scientific. In the Pentateuch, therefore, we have a true and logical
introduction to the entire Bible; and, in type, a personification of the divine
revelation of God.
GENESIS is the book of beginnings. It records not only the beginning
of the heavens and the earth, and of plant, animal, and human life, but also of
all human institutions and relationships. Typically, it speaks of the new
birth, the new creation, where all was chaos and ruin. With Genesis begins also
that progressive self-revelation of God which culminates in Christ. The three
primary names of Deity, Elohim, Jehovah, and Adonai, and the five most
important of the compound names, occur in Genesis; and that in an ordered
progression which could not be changed without confusion. The problem of sin as
affecting man's condition in the earth and his relation to God, and the divine
solution of that problem are here in essence. Of the eight great covenants which
condition human life and the divine redemption, four, the Edenic, Adamic,
Noahic, and Abrahamic Covenants are in this book; and these are the fundamental
covenants to which the other four, the Mosaic, Palestinian, Davidic, and New
Covenants, are related chiefly as adding detail or development. Genesis enters into the very structure of the
New Testament, in which it is quoted above sixty times in seventeen books. In a
profound sense, the roots of all subsequent revelation are planted deep in
Genesis, and whoever would truly comprehend that revelation must begin here.
The inspiration of Genesis and its character as a divine revelation are
authenticated by the testimony of Jesus Christ Mt 19:4-6; 24:37-39; Mr 10:4-9;
Lu 11:49-51; 17:26-29,32. Genesis is divided into five chief divisions:
I. Creation (1. 1-2.25)
II. The fall and redemption (3. 1-4, 7).
III. The Diverse Seeds, Cain and Seth, to the Flood (4.8-7.24).
IV. The Flood to Babel (8.1-11.9).
V. From the call of Abram to the death of Joseph (11:10-50:26).
The events recorded in Genesis cover a period of 2,315
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