_Do You Understand the Bible? David FieldNovember 29, 2011
If you are one to diligently study
your bible, maybe you are proud of how worn you’ve got your bible, or how
marked up you have it, and you believe that is an achievement worth something;
maybe you even say things like, “I only put faith in the Holy Bible”. I may
have news for you. Christians don't realize they must learn the language, and
culture of the bible at the time it was written, before they can even begin to
understand the words within. Even the most bible learned scholars among us, can
understand little before first studying the language and culture of the people at the time and place of the writing. I know
many, usually preachers that seem to know the entire bible by heart. If I start
quoting a verse, they can instantly tell me where it is in the bible, and
finish the quote or even the whole chapter, or at least the just of it. But what good is all that head
knowledge without a foundation and an understanding of the truth?
The customs
of the day, the idioms used are for the most part ignored in the Christian
church today. The original writers of the bible did not have you and me in mind
as they put the words on the page. They did not feel the need to explain their
words and unique phrases to foreigners. They were writing to their own people
in their own language and in their own culture, and understanding. And their
culture was much different than our Greek inspired western culture. So none of
the idioms are explained within the texts, and we take them literally. For
example, was it a burning bush that Moses saw or was that a metaphor, the
meaning of which did not get translated by the Greek speaking Romans who
translated the bible for us? And did Yahshua say he was his own father when he
said, “I and my father are one”, and “When you see me, you see the father”? Or
was he saying to those that understood in his own language of the day that he
and his father are in perfect harmony and agreement?
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said,I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matthew 10:6 But go rather to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Why are these verses skipped over
and ignored in Christian churches? Westerners are so proud to think that the
Holy Bible was written expressly for them, claiming that Yah divorced Israel,
and that gentiles now carry the torch for Him, but the bible says otherwise.
They even believe that Yahshua the Nazarene Messiah from the Hebrew land of
Judea took on the Greek name of Jesus! That is a fake name for an apostate
religion formed with the Roman Catholic Church for purposes of mixing the pure
with the profane, thus gaining control of the world to themselves with
religion. Paul was sent to the gentile nations because the lost sheep were
scattered therein. Neither Paul nor Peter started Christianity, or had anything
to do with the RCC or Christianity. They followed the teachings of the Nazarene
Messiah. The Jews in the land of Judea at the time knew where they were, and
the lost tribes at the time knew who they were. Christians are taught to
largely ignore the Old Testament of the bible, and don’t realize the northern
ten tribes of Israel, were scattered at the time, and still are. I believe Yah
is using this scattering for His own purposes. For when Paul went to the
gentile nations, he brought the good news not only to the lost tribes, but to
everyone within earshot. Yah promised to bless the entire world through Israel,
and I believe not only with the sacrifice of his son, but also to bring us the
news of it.
If you are of the belief that just
because Yah could preserve his word perfectly to westerners like yourself
today, that he did just that, were in your bible does he claim to promise you
this? Where in the bible does Yah say that He will preserve his word perfectly
on the written page? Now Yahshua did say that the Rauch of Yah will be sent for
all understanding, remembrance and knowledge, but he never made mention of a
sixty-six book cannon. And the bible does say that the word will be written on
our hearts.
So if you truly seek Him, forsaking
your own self, your own head knowledge, then and then only are you opened to
receive the real truth from Him. Yahshua said, come to me as a little child. He
was using this analogy to tell you that you must come to him empty, not full of
yourself, like a little child seeking only his wisdom and understanding.
Yah is not trying to meet you were
you are. He is THE king. He expects us to come to Him. And He is telling you to
leave your paganism behind in favor of His ways. His ways were taught to the
Hebrews as explained in the Torah (five books of Moses) and expanded in the
Tanakh (Old Testament), and later agreed with in the Renewed Covenant (New
Testament to Christians).