Because I have posted over 2100 messages on this website covering a wide variety of subjects found in God’s Holy Word, I realize that there could be some readers who, having found or learned of this ministry only recently, have not had time to explore some of them.  Therefore, from time to time I try to summarize some of the most misunderstood Scriptural passages because it is those passages which Satan uses to muddy the clear waters of God’s Truth.  With this in mind I will deviate from my normal mode of operation to remind old readers and introduce new readers to some of God’s Truths that can be misunderstood to the reader’s peril.  The Lord, speaking to us through the Prophet Isaiah, warned about this in 28:9-13 where He tells us exactly how and why to study His Word.  How?–very carefully with attention being paid to details.  Why?–because there is no other way to learn His Truths.

Over the coming days I will lay again a summarized foundation of Bible teachings that, I have found, are almost universally misunderstood by Bible students to their detriment.  God warned about this when He said: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hos. 4:6).  Note it: GOD’S OWN PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED BECAUSE OF A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIM.  Today, when the Bible is the most purchased and most stolen book in the history of printing, Scriptural Truth is sorely lacking within the collective psyche of the Institutional Church.  I am not easily surprised when it comes to spiritual matters.  However, I am often dismayed when church leaders, some of them internationally famous, repeat Satan’s lies while claiming to be representing the Biblical God.

Recently I had another one of those “right place and right time” situations in which I heard a world-known preacher say, in so many words, that Jesus used parables to make His message easier to understand.  This was a Satanic lie that is repeatedly proclaimed throughout professing Christendom.  In Matthew 13:10-15 Jesus told His disciples the exact opposite of what this false prophet announced to his international followers.  He said that He spoke to the multitudes in parables SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.  This Truth could not be made more clear.  Yet, if 1000 church people from around the world were asked why Jesus spoke in parables, 100% would parrot the false prophet’s answer.  My assignment is to take those with eyes to see and ears to hear to the Holy Word of God and show them exactly what He said.  However, I know from Christ’s experience as recorded in the Holy Scriptures that few who have His Words at their fingertips actually believe them.  Think about this: Jesus preached to, healed, delivered and fed 7000 men, not counting women and children in one case and 5000 men, not counting women and children in another case.  Do the math: 12,000 men and probably 12,000 women and probably twice that many children heard Him speak, watched Him perform miracles and went away fed.  That makes approximately 50,000 people who, on just those two occasions  heard Him, watched Him and marveled at what they saw and heard.  Yet, on the Day of Pentecost following His death, only about 120 people remained true to Him.  Therefore I am not surprised at the fact that people in and around Athens, Texas reject my message, which is in fact Christ’s message.  This area is in the middle of the nation’s so-called “Bible Belt.”  No one hates the Bible like church people in the Bible Belt.  In rejecting it they, as the Lord said, “deny the Lord Who bought them by speaking evil of the way of Truth.”  In Luke 10:16 Jesus said that by rejecting His Word, people prove that they despise both Him and His Father.

Whether Catholic or Protestant, whether globally popular or relatively unknown, all church groups, denominations, faiths, cults, sects, etc. are based on the same Satanically-orchestrated error known as BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION.  God, in His infinite wisdom, warned about this deadly error when He proclaimed through the Apostle Peter: “Knowing this FIRST of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private (personal, man’s) interpretation, for God’s prophecy (Word) did not come during olden times by the will of men, but HOLY MEN OF OLD SPOKE AS THEY WERE MOVED UPON BY THE HOLY SPIRIT” (2 Pet. 1:20,21).  The apostle went on to warn Truth seekers that false prophets and false teachers would rise up in the church where they would proclaim “damnable heresies’ (false “truths”) and thereby “deny the Lord who bought them” by “speaking evil of the way of Truth”–God’s Holy Word.  In this way they would “condemn themselves and all those who would follow them” (2:1,2).  Biblical interpretation is the root of the church’s false narrative.  Over time the interpretation is assumed to be from God because people refuse to study His Word for themselves.  When shown what God actually said, “I didn’t know that was in there” is the typical response.  This is usually followed by, “But that’s not what my church teaches” or something along those lines.  Satan wins; God loses.  Welcome to professing Christendom.

The Holy Bible–God in print–does not need to be interpreted.  THE BIBLE INTERPRETS ITSELF.  The Lord’s “headlines” must be studied in terms of His “fine print.”  That is what Isaiah 28:9-13 is all about.  Man has not been given the right to interpret what God says, which means that man knows more than God.  God does His own interpreting.  Adam and Eve believed the Serpent of Eden who convinced them that they could interpret the Words of almighty God.  Such foolishness; such idolatry; such damnable heresy.  When man interprets God’s perfect Words man places himself above God by editing what He said.  Who among us is so important that he can take a red pen to the Holy Scriptures?  The answer: over two billion Bible-toting, Scripture-quoting, cross-wearing Catholics and Protestants alive today who will dutifully enter Satan’s citadels of sin next sun god worshiping day to pay homage to their master–the god of the earth (2 Cor. 4:4) who has deceived those (in the church) who are lost, who “handle the Word of God deceitfully,” whose “minds have been blinded” so that they “do not believe so that God’s light cannot shine on them” (vss 3,4).  The purpose of this series of teachings is to allow God’s “fine print” to illuminate His “headlines” so that what is promised can be received.  In other words, what good is it to have a safe full of money if one does not have the combination? or if one has the combination but refuses to believe it? or if one has it and believes it but refuses to use it?  The money is the “headline;” the Bible is the safe; the combination is the “fine print.” Come, let us reason together.  Let us embrace God’s light/Truth/Word.  Otherwise, all of our religiosity is in vain (Mat. 15:9).  L.J.