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1 | Why has the Bible not been added to? | Bible general Archive 2 | JCrichton | 108640 | ||
Hi, kandrews! There are many people who will ask for very specific answers as proof of Devine Pronouncement; all I can give you is the Scripture’s testament: In Genesis we see the pronouncement of the first prophecy concerning Jesus, the devil and the world to come: I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; it will bruise your head and you will strike its heel.’ (Genesis 3:15) This struggle (battle/war) is expanded upon in Revelation 12: Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, (Revelation 12:4-5) Then the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, who obey God’s commandments and have in themselves the witness of Jesus. (Revelation 12:17) I liken Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 12 to the Head Lines on news stories; they talk about rebellion of Satan and his impotence in subverting God’s Plan and Authority, while simultaneously revealing his hold on spiritual beings and his determination to threaten Christ’s siblings. Throughout the Old Testament there are revelations being made through prophecies about God’s Salvation Plan which is personified in Jesus Christ: Deuteronomy 18:15; Isaiah 9:6; 52:13 - 53:12; John 1:1-5, 9-14. Jesus defined His role in our Salvation this way: Jesus said: I am the Way; I am Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. (John 14:6) No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of man; as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. For God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will be judged; but whoever does not believe is judged already, because that person does not believe in the Name of God’s only Son. And the judgement is this: though the light has come into the world people have preferred darkness to the light because their deeds were evil. And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, to prevent his actions from being shown up; but whoever does the truth comes out into the light, so that what he is doing may plainly appear as done in God.’ (John 3:13-21) |
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2 | Why has the Bible not been added to? | Bible general Archive 2 | JCrichton | 108641 | ||
(Part 2) ‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. In truth I tell you, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, is to disappear from the Law until all its purpose is achieved. (Matthew 5:17-18) Further, Jesus introduces themes that demonstrate that there is an imminent conclusion to the old covenant: ‘Up to the time of John it was the Law and the Prophets; from then onwards, the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it. (Luke 16:16) Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to the disciples. ‘Take it and eat,’ he said, ‘this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, ‘Drink from this, all of you, for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. (Mt 26:26-28) Then he told them, ‘This is what I meant when I said, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets and in the Psalms, was destined to be fulfilled.’ He then opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘So it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that, in his name, repentances for the forgiveness of sins would be preached for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses to this.’ (Luke 24:44-49) ‘And now I am sending upon you what the Father has promised. Stay in the city, then, until you are clothed with the power from on high.’ Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven. (Luke 24:51) I have glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. now, Father, glorify me with that glory I had with you before ever the world existed. (John 17:4-5) After Jesus had taken the wine he said, ‘It is fulfilled’; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit. (John 9:30) I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete to be with you for ever, the Spirit of truth whom the world can never accept since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you. I shall not leave you orphans; I shall come to you. In a short time the world will no longer see me; but you will see that I live and you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal myself to him.’ (John 14:16-21) but the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you. (John 14:26) When the Paraclete comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who issues from the Father, he will be my witness. And you too will be witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning. (John 15:26-27) Still, I am telling you the truth: it is for your own good that I am going, because unless I go, the paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will show the world how wrong it was, about sin, and about who was in the right, and about judgement: about sin: in that they refuse to believe in me; about who was in the right: in that I am going to the Father and you will see me no more; about judgement: in that the prince of this world is already condemned. I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you to bear now. However, when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking of his own accord, but will say only what he has been told; and he will reveal to you the things to come. He will glorify me, since all he reveals to you will be taken from what is mine. (John 16:7-14;) |
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3 | Why has the Bible not been added to? | Bible general Archive 2 | JCrichton | 108642 | ||
(Part 3) Jesus tells us that till John the Baptist the old covenant of the Law and the prophecies were in effect. Once He arrived He brought with Him not the abolishment of the Law but the completion (fulfillment). There can be no other set of prophecies directing us to the impending Christ because the Christ has come! Though Jesus did not reveal all Truth He promised that the Paraclete would reveal all and remind us of Jesus words. The Holy Spirit, through the Apostles, worked directly with the early Church providing spiritual guidance, structure and definition. There are many revelations which include prophecies that help fine-tune Christ’s revelations and instructions: …It was at Antioch that the disciples were first called ‘Christians’. (Acts 11:26) Whenever you eat this bread, then, and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the Lord’s death until he comes. Therefore anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily is answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 11:26-27) Christ himself died once and for all for sins, the upright for the sake of the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life, and, in the spirit, he went to preach to the spirits in prison. They refused to believe long ago, while God patiently waited to receive them, in Noah’s time when the ark was being built. In it only a few, that is eight souls, were saved through water. It is the baptism corresponding to this water which saves you now--not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience given to God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has entered heaven and is at God’s right hand, with angels, ruling forces and powers subject to him. (1 Peter 3:18-22) A revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him so that he could tell his servants what is now to take place very soon; he sent his angel to make it known to his servant John, and John has borne witness to the Word of God and to the witness of Jesus Christ, everything that he saw. Blesses is anyone who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed those who hear them, if they treasure the content, because the Time is near. (Revelation 1:1-3) Christ came to fulfill the Law and the prophets. He also came to die for our sins, to establish His Church, and to Mediate for us in front of the Father. Though His role as the Lamb of God is over, He owns full authority and power as the Alpha and Omega, the God of Amen, the King of kings, the Lord of lords. Since all but one (Second Coming: the Lion of Israel) of Christ’s functions have been fulfilled there are no new revelations (original prophecies) that have to be written: No, this is the covenant I will make with the House of Israel, when those days have come, the Lord declares: In their minds I shall plant my laws writing them on their hearts. Then I shall be their God, and they shall be my people. There will be no further need for each to teach his neighbour, and each his brother, saying ‘Learn to know the Lord!’ No, they will all know me, from the least to the greatest, since I shall forgive their guilt and never more call their sins to mind. (Hebrews 8:10-12) God Bless! |
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