About the Bible
The Bible is the foundation that supports the belief systems of nearly half the earth's population. It's also the most misunderstood book in the history of the world. This is mostly because God's corrective redemptive plan for this creation required keeping certain things hidden until the right time. So how did God hide it in plain sight?
​
Try to visualize a professor holding a globe in his or her hands in front of students. The professor turns the globe and begins talking about a certain place, while the students write notes. The professor turns the globe again and talks some more. After nearly an hour of this, the students have pages of notes about several places on earth. Their notes are neatly organized and correspond with each turn of the professor's globe.
​
When God speaks, He sees the entire globe at the same time, and He sees thousands of years at the same time. So when the prophets of old wrote down what God said to them, it was impossible for them to always know what, and when God was speaking about. This is why it says they wrote "as the Spirit of God carried them along". Their job wasn't to understand, it was to remain still, small, and write ONLY what they heard. They did not even presume to use punctuation. So when Yeshua (Jesus) stood up that day in the Temple and paged through the scroll to find what we call Isaiah 61:1-2, He did it without chapter or verse numbers! When Jesus stopped reading halfway through verse 2 and closed the book, as it says He did, there was no comma either. He stopped because His first coming was to "Proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord", and NOT to start "the day of vengeance" or to "comfort all that mourn" as verse 2 goes on to say. This is called "Rightly dividing" the Word of God, and unless God has enabled a person to do this, they will fail.
​
The proof of this is found in Isaiah 28:9-13. God said that both He and His Son spoke in such a way that people would "fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken" over trying to understand the Bible. When God said it was written and spoken, "A little here, a little there" it means some pieces of the puzzle given through this prophet, some pieces through that prophet. "Line upon line, precept upon precept" means without God teaching you, you will not know when one line ends, and the next line begins. Remember Jesus in the Temple... 2000 years separated those 2 words in Isaiah 61:2... and there are many of these 'splits' in the Scriptures, including the words of Christ in the New Testament. Matthew 24 is one example of Jesus speaking like 'God holding a globe', and indeed His words have caused countless people to become "snared, taken captive, and fall backward" as it says, regarding these last days.
​
The writings of the prophets are in contrast with the writings of the New Testament. Of the four gospel accounts, only John's is said to be a first person account, and all of them were written several years after Yeshua (Jesus) ascended to heaven. Obviously these writers did have the help of the Holy Spirit, however not every little detail was "God breathed Scripture" like how the old prophets wrote. Some of what they wrote in their letters was out of their love and current understanding, and we are sure the Spirit of God was with them as they wrote. But on the day that Paul wrote, "All Scripture is God breathed and useful for correction..." the New Testament didn't even exist. These 'letters' had not been compiled into a book yet! Nevertheless, many comments made in the Apostle's letters have been taken out of context, not rightly divided, and used to support a legalistic way of thinking that has kept many people walking in religious versions of Christianity (Different Jesus's) and going about the earth emanating it so, "Adding sin to sin" as it says, and "making a man a sinner for a word" as God told the prophets of old it would become due to this.
​
Yes, many have been snared, fallen backward, and taken captive by subtle doctrines of demons, as it was first said in Isaiah 28 and later said by Paul in his 1st letter to Timothy.
​​
​
​