Is the Bible Seemingly Silent?

Or,

Is There A Glorious Bible Message Overlooked?

The Bible is God’s word to us expressed through forty writers over ~1,500 years using two or more languages. Yet the Bible is in perfect balance and perfect harmony in all aspects. God has left it to us to read and understand what it all means. After almost 2,000 years since the Bible was completed, has anyone come to a complete understanding of what it says?

Considering that there are thousands of divisions among Christendom around the world, how can we ever come to a unity of the faith?

There are thousands of religious rituals, rites, and services taking place every week.

There are thousands of church buildings erected and furnished for worshipping.

There are thousands of trained and ordained clergymen and pastors.

There are thousands of choirs and singers singing and recording thousands of hymns and songs.

There are thousands of books written and published to explain God and His Word.

There are thousands of books written and published on how we should live.

There are hundreds of versions of the Bible written and published at great profit.

What if they are all missing the mark?

What if they have truth ‘out of place’?

What if they do misunderstand God and His Word?

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” (1 Cor. 3:19)

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.” (Isa. 55:8-9)

“So, then every one of us shall give account of himself to God” (Rom. 14:12)

The Bible tells us to “study to show ourselves approved of God, workmen that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Tim 2:15)

What does it mean “to rightly divide the word of truth”?

Philippians 1:10 That ye may approve [discern] things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

The failure to study by dividing the word of truth rightly is what causes divisions among Christians, causing confusion and deception.

“The unity of the faith only comes from studying and rightly dividing the word of truth.”

There is an enemy of truth. He is identified and mentioned several times in the Bible by means of several names and titles. You know who he is.

His goal is to keep us all from the truth that God wants us to know. His primary means of deception are the formation of man-controlled religions and the perversion of God’s Word. He long ago defiled the sanctuaries in heaven by trafficking in lies, deception, and iniquity. (Eze. 28:18)

Therefore, because God has an enemy, God had to keep some things secret until they are revealed to whom and at what time He deems appropriate in His plan for the ages.

These secrets are called “mysteries”; and like parables, as Jesus said, they are not for everyone to hear or understand.

Therefore, many misunderstand the mysteries presented in the Bible.

The Bible reads one way to the natural, soulish, man and reads another way to the spiritual man.

To many the traditional Christian the Bible just seems to go silent after the end of The Book of Acts and until the beginning events of the Book of Revelation.

Consequently, the traditional Christian is living in kind of an extended Gospels/Acts period, overlooking and not realizing and that there is a post-Acts teaching (doctrine) that actually applies to this present age of today.

And to make all saints see what is the fellowship of the mystery [secret], which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: (Eph 3:9)

Even [that is] the mystery [i.e., secret] which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: (Col 1:26)

I believe that God would rather have us to study His Word than to go to church. Here is why I say that: here is what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well in John Chapter 4: 22-24

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. (Worship not in a place) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father In Spirit And In Truth [verity, reality]: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. (Worship within self, ‘in spirit’) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

1 Timothy 2:3-4 summarizes nicely what God expects of us:

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men 1. to be saved, and 2. to come unto the (precise) knowledge of the truth.

After Paul learned that all those of Asia had turned away from him, he expressed to Timothy:

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. (2 Tim 2:24-26)

[Many religious people are] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (2 Tim 3:7)

The following is God’s method of teaching correct doctrine, from 2 Tim 3:16-17:

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable

1. for (correct) doctrine,

2. for reproof (of wrong doctrine),

3. for correction (to correct doctrine),

4. for instruction in righteousness (according to correct doctrine):

That the man of God may be perfect [complete], throughly furnished unto all good works.”

The best way to discover correct doctrine for this present-day age is to learn all that happened with the end of ‘The Acts’ Period and what scriptures were then written to us after the Acts Period ended.

Paul was given a second ministry after the end of the Acts to explain “the mystery” of “the Body of Christ” to be saved unto the heavenly calling and hope. At the end of Acts the hope and calling for all men changed, because, for the present time, Israel is not God’s people (cf. Hosea 1:9) and the doors to the restored kingdom of Israel on earth are currently closed.

You’ve got some studying to do…because I am sure you now have a lot of questions!