THE BIBLE ONLY IS HOLY

Said Jesus, “The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” Jn.12:48

     In this one verse we see the standard of righteousness and judgment for the human race. The Holy Bible will judge every man who has ever lived, whether they were aware of it or not (Zech.13:6), and the Bible gives allowances for every case (Eze.18:30).

     “But take ye heed, Behold, I have foretold you all things.” Mk.13:23. These words of Christ confirm that every aspect of our lives living in a sinful world is addressed, and the best solution to our every need is given. Christ left nothing out! And the words He spoke, from the instruction given to Adam, to Noah, to Abraham, to Moses and the prophets were not His own decision but from the Omniscient Father, Who Alone knows “the end from the beginning.” “For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.” Jn.12:49,50. Therefore, every word spoken through the lips of Jesus Christ is “holy, and just, and good.” And to us, David admonished to keep our ears open and our hearts pliable in GOD’S gentle hands, “I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.” Ps.85:8.

     Within the sixty-six books of the Holy Bible are GOD’S abbreviated history of the sin problem, showing every detail in how the GOD of heaven has dealt with Satan and his demons, even to showing the limitations GOD placed on the powers of Satan. For if the devil was given a free hand in this present world, each of our lives living on this planet would be full of universal suffering, hatred and every conceivable atrocity. We see these atrocious abuses intermittently scattered throughout our carnal society: crimes of every sort. And if Satan had his way, they would be universal. The equivalent of the church’s sadistic doctrine of eternal hellfire would be an everyday experience for every creature: suffering of unimaginable magnitude. All that brings joy to the heart of man would be forever vanquished. This is the character of the one who usurped the dominion of Earth from our father Adam: the one the whole world and even apostate Christianity has turned to in obeisance.

     But GOD’S restraining hand withholds the devil’s goals: “Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the LORD [“the Son of God”] said unto Satan, The LORD [“the Father”] rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?” Zech.2:13-3:2.

     Then there is the supreme promise found in the Word of GOD: “Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail.” Isa.34:16. These words substantiate the words of Jesus. When one compares this precious promise with the Bible’s clear teaching that the vast majority of people will not escape the condemnation of sin [including those whose names are on the church books (I Pet.4:18)], to think how the guardian angels of these dear souls must feel as they see the sinful pride and indifference shown to the weight of Scripture’s every word. O, the vast numbers of holy angels who return to heaven knowing that the one assigned to their special care is lost forever! The loss of so many that Jesus Christ laid down His Holy Life to save! "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jer.17:9.

     And now, in our generation, atheists publicly mock at the Word of GOD: its history, its miracles—its wisdom touching our hearts with promises of eternal life through Jesus Christ, and its many warnings of sin’s authority to destroy the soul. The ACLU sues anyone who proposes any gesture for Christianity’s influence. If they could they would blot Christ from America all together. Our secular society unanimously declares, “The Bible was written by men, therefore, it cannot be the word of god.” This is democracy in action!

     But when Scripture says, “Thus saith the LORD” the words following cannot be construed to be anything else other than the words of our Creator to His children. These are not the words of men, but the words of “the LORD” of Heaven! The Bible is clear in it’s warning to never add or take away from GOD’S Word. But the belligerent pride of men will not be dissuaded, both in and out of the church. They will never hear the LORD’S inspired words of reproof: “But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.” Jude vss.10-13.

     There is no other way to answer the question of why cruelty is so dominant throughout the world, why injustice, mockery, betrayal, and sadistic glee flourishes in our society, except that men, women, and older children are led by a spiritual power that works to overrule our conscience that knows, full well, right from wrong. The Spirit of GOD has seen to this, as Jesus declared: "And when he [the Holy Ghost] is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged." Jn.16:8-11. From our youth, Satan trains the heart to sin. In secular universities, there are religious classes studying the world’s religions. Some even study the Bible including Christ’s Sermon on The Mount. But because their hearts are led to approach the Scriptures to the intent of disproving them, their hearts of stone quench the “still small voice” of the Holy Spirit. The most profound urges of love are silenced.

     The world is blind to its danger. To hear Barack Obama speak the words, “holy Koran” with a middle-eastern accent is pathetic beyond words, for it is an open assault on the truth, “as the truth is in Jesus.” There is nothing holy about a book that was dictated by Satan himself to one his many false prophets, the ignorant tyrant, Mohammed. The world is filled with counterfeit “holy” books: in Babism, the Baha’i Faith, Gnosticism, Islam, Rastafarianism, and Talmudic Jewry. Even the so-called lost books of the Bible we see blatant contradictions and open denial of the plainest counsel from On High.

     Is it any wonder we’ve seen so many obstacles through history preventing the spread of GOD’S Word? Even the Roman Church has overruled its authority throughout its history. Pope Gregory IX banned the Holy Bible from the common man in the year 1229 at the Council of Toulouse. And all who continued to share the Bible’s pages among the people were viewed as the servants of Satan. But GOD had a true and faithful church throughout these long dark centuries of religious oppression, barbaric ignorance and superstition: the commandment-keeping Waldenses. They patterned their discipline of faith after the Judean model of Christianity as the Apostles Peter and Paul established: “For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they [have] of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.” I Thess.2:14-16.

     According the great scholar, Theodore Beza (whose final edition of the “Received Text” was the leading manuscript for the New Testament of the KJV) the Waldenses established their church in 120 A.D., centuries before the rise of Catholicism. Therefore, as a result of Rome’s eternal lust for the supremacy the Waldenses were mercilessly hunted to secure their extinction. But throughout these arduous times the Waldenses were famous for sharing the Word of GOD among the people of Europe. They were humble traveling merchants searching for hungry hearts whose bondage to the religious superstitions of Rome left them destitute of Biblical truth and Christ’s gift of “peace.” They were traveling troubadours performing their music before kings and noblemen. They would sing entire passages of Scripture in lovely melodies accompanied by the instruments of the day. The king would ask, “What are these words of GOD and of hope that you sing? Where do they come from?” Their reply: “The words you just heard are words of the Saviour of all men, Jesus Christ, recorded for us in the Holy Bible. I have many pages of His Words here if your majesty would like to see them.” Thus, the LORD continued to sow the seeds of salvation throughout the Dark Ages. The continuation of apostolic Christianity owes its heritage to these humble mountain Christians who never forced the will of anyone. The Savior commanded men to “Search the Scriptures” (Jn.5:39). The Roman Church forbade this commandment of Christ, among many others, all because they revealed the many sins of Rome.

     Historical Fact: Without the Reformation none to this day would have the legal right to own a Bible. Did you hear that? The decree of the “Infallible Church” would have sustained the dogma of Pope Gregory IX to this very day. We must never forget: the papacy did not willingly step down from her throne of religious tyranny: it had to be forcibly removed by the shedding of the blood of hundreds of thousands of men. Every devout Catholic today owes their right to even own a Bible to the fifty million men, women and children who perished at the hands of the papal priesthood, whose puppeteering of civil leaders has led to the most heinous and gruesome crimes against humanity. Holy angels have recorded in the books of heaven things that would make you vomit with disdain! Only during the Millennium Judgment in the New Jerusalem in Heaven, where the mansions Christ promised reside (Jn.14:2), will these hidden crimes come to light (Rev.20:4; I Cor.4:5). For 1,260 years [as prophesied seven times in Scripture (Dan. 7:25, 11:33, 12:7; Rev. 11:2, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5)] the persecution of “heretics” was the sole work of papal Rome. This history and Reformation theology is all but forgotten. Even the plain words of Christ forecasting the coming tyranny have been overruled today: “Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.” Jn.16:2,3.

     It is important to note that as we increase our knowledge to recognize Heaven’s sympathy toward the suffering of life the more we see the open warfare between good and evil, truth and deceit—love’s gesture and hatred of all that is “holy, and just, and good.” And as we become increasingly aware of the reality of Satan’s betrayal of everything “holy, and just, and good” (Rom.7:12) the more we will appreciate and rejoice in the promise that “the gift of GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom.6:23).

     It is GOD’S purpose for the last generation of Christians to view the value of life as Jesus views it that they may stand in “the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Rev.3:10). To accomplish this, GOD works to restore our minds and hearts to understand the foundation of salvation in the Holy Bible, and the dignity that heaven places on every life: to have a glimpse of the social fabric of heaven that will one day become the standard of peace throughout the heavens through GOD'S transformation in re-creating this sin-cursed Earth into “the new earth,” for all to behold and wonder of the power of His love. And the more we come to appreciate what has been lost, the more we will appreciate GOD’S Word promising untold treasures of joy that await “his saints.”

     In summation, the purpose of the Gospel is to spare every man from having to face the death that Jesus faced when He died on the Cross of Calvary (Heb.2:9): a death of despair, of being denied the longing to love and be loved—of worshiping a GOD Who lives to serve the tranquility and happiness of every living creature. Jesus Christ, the “Everlasting Father” of man has justified the entire human race through His shed blood “for the remission of sins” (Rom.3:25). None among men needed to be lost! And His ministers are called to believe His Testimony. And standing blameless before GOD, openly show His salvation before the world, promising to all that through His Indwelling Presence the Divine Image can be restored in one’s heart, as it is written: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” Eze.36:26.

     But the whole world is trapped in a thousand false views of why we are here and what our purpose is as human beings. And most are ignorant of the spiritual warfare taking place between the good and evil among angels and men, and just how intense the threat is against the human soul. Even multitudes of professing Christians fare no better. Much of this ignorance is because the ruling church in Rome has made GOD look tyrannical, ambiguous and even hypocritical through its doctrines and bloody history. Nevertheless, GOD desires to be given the permission from professing church members and all of His children to “take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them an heart of flesh.” Eze.11:19. His “still small voice” solely works to this end, that Christ may be seen in the life—to His honor and glory.

     And while the ethical conduct of a society may change for better or for worse, the qualities of Jesus Christ are “the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever,” as Moses prayed, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.” Ps.90:2,3. GOD’S promises are as sure today as they were when the LORD Jesus promised Adam and Eve that He would rescue them and their family from the death-sentence caused by their sin. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Heb.13:8. He has promised to all by His Word, “to save them that believe” (I Cor.1:21). And it is because of His Covenant that He made with the saints that each and every one faithfully prays: “Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.” Ps.119:49.

     Every Bible believing Christian who sees the historical disobedience of the church, which is the leading leverage for the hatred of our society against Jesus Christ, and the evil spirit of men behind all the wars and the greed that continue to fill the Earth with violence, these precious believers in Jesus Christ stand united in their declaration that “they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.” Heb.11:16. This promise is as sure as GOD’S obedience to His covenant founded on the Ten Commandments: consecrated in the permanence of stone.