Your only protection is the Holy Word of God

Your only protection against false prophets is the Holy Word of God

God the Holy Spirit inspired and personally directed approximately forty varied men across 2,000 years to write the Holy Word of God. Humanity has been given five senses to procure information for analysis and review by the mind.

The only other possible avenue for gaining information is a spirit. The Word of God tastes, smells, looks, sounds, and feels the same throughout the Old and the New Testament. In our humanity, we sometimes read something in the Word of God, whereby our lack of understanding makes it appear that there is contradiction.

Know that it is a lack of our understanding. If a Scripture is not in compliance with the total of all other Scriptures, it is because of misinterpretation on the part of you or the translator.

For the Scriptures to mesh and comply completely, totally, and exactly with each other requires a very narrow, restrictive and precise interpretation, that produces an exact truth that "only a few" (Matthew 7:14) understand and comply with. The sinful self-will of man desires a broad, vague, ambiguous and confusing interpretation that does not focus on the sin in his life.

Matthew 7:13-14 (NIV) "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

If your theology is "wide," or "broad," and understood and complied with by the many, you are on the road to HELL!

You must decide now on what you will build your faith. There are many beliefs.

There is only one truth. The Holy Word of God is Truth. What a person believes in no way impacts whether something is true.
Proverbs 14:15 (NIV) A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps.

History has proven that people will believe anything. You must decide from whom, or upon what you will base your beliefs. Are you going to believe the Holy Word of God, or are you going to believe science, tradition, history, intuition, or anything else?

Will you stand with the Word of God when it is contradicted by anything?

Considering that science, tradition, history, intuition, and everything else has been wrong on many occasions, and that the Word of God has never been wrong, this should be an easy decision.

Failure to make a decision to believe the Word of God is a decision.

If you have not irrevocably decided to stand firm, strong and steadfast on the Holy inspired Word of God, then I counsel you to spend no more time with this prophesy, or the Word of God, as it will do you little good.

James 1:5-7 (NIV) If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

7 That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord;

You must learn what the inspired Holy Word of God says.

Isaiah 28:9-10 (KJV) Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he maketo understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

You must be able to discern truth by the Word of God. You must judge the teachings of man by the Word of God. You must be very harsh and very critical of any prophesy that does not comply with the entire Word of God. Judge what you have been taught, and what you believe with the Word of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 (NIV) Test everything. Hold on to the good.
1 John 4:1 (NIV) Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

The traditions of man will aid false prophets in deceiving people, as we may have already been taught heresy by someone in whom we have a great deal of confidence and consequently more readily accept a distortion of the Holy Scriptures.

Matthew 15:3-9 (NIV) Jesus replied,

"And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

4 For God said, 'Honour your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

5 But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,'

6 he is not to 'honour his father ' with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:

8 "'These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'" tradition: 1. an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behaviour (as a religious practice or a social custom)

2: the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another without written instruction - Webster's Dictionary Historically, tradition has been and is often used to nullify the Word of God.

The reason that tradition is properly labelled as tradition is that it is NOT the Word of God.

You must not trust in the traditions that you have been taught by any man.

Isaiah 2:22 (NIV) Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

The Book of Mormon, the Quran, Josephus, the books of history, the books of science, and the Nazarene Manual are but rules taught by men. If you elect to place the teaching of any document above the Holy Word of God, or use any document to minimise the Holy Word of God, that document to you is your foundation and bible.

You must consume the Word of God. Every thought must be brought into compliance with the Word of God. You must build your faith on Jesus Christ and the Word of God.

The Holy Word of God is your only hope!

Satan has many "theologians" attacking the plenary inspiration by the Holy Spirit of the Word of God in various ways. One of the ways he is attacking is by putting forth the heresy that some or all of the Word of God is a myth, and not to be taken as a historical record. Another facet of his multi-pronged attack is to put forth heretical writings or myths as truth. Satan alleges that the Truth is a myth, and that myths are truth. The Quran and the Book of Mormon are examples of myths put forth by Satan as truth.

The first eleven chapters of Genesis, the book of Job, the book of Jonah, the virginity of Mary, and many other absolute truths are targets of Satan, alleging they are myths. Satan's ultimate goal is the destruction of your soul, and to that end, the scheme he has conjured up and transmitted through his liberal "Christian" theologians is an attempt to fabilise the existence, deity and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NIV) 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
If Satan can get you to compromise your faith in the Word of God in the smallest, minute sense, he will start you on the road to apostasy. He will ultimately get you to discredit the entire Word of God.
Isaiah 7:9c (NIV)

If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all."

If you allow Satan to undermine your faith in the infallible Holy Word of God, you are left with no anchor, no baseline, and nothing stable on which you can stand. You are left awash, and defenceless, with no guide, no direction and no place to turn. You will have nothing.

When you are given the option to believe the Holy Word of God, or the publication or speech of any person, or any historical or technical document; stand firmly, stubbornly, and steadfastly with the Holy Word of God.

An alleged minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ who does not believe completely without reservation; and base his entire teaching or message totally on the basis of, and by the Holy Word of God, is no different than the Reverend Jim Jones in Guyana, the Reverend David Koresh in Waco, "Do" and "Peet" who soared away on the Hale-Bopp comet, or the Reverend Louis Farrakhan! Once a "minister" crosses the threshold in deviation from the Holy Word of God and teaches his own thinking, he is potentially able to move his parishioners anywhere he wants them to go.

To deviate from the Holy Word of God for any reason, is to believe that you know better than the Word of God. It is arrogance at a blasphemous level and an abomination unto God to think that your personal intellect surpasses the Holy Word of God. That thinking is derived from the spirit of the Anti-Christ!

"Watch out that no one deceives you. "Matthew 24:4
The warning screams its haunting message across 2,000 years.

Your only defence is the infallible Holy Word of God!
As God revealed Himself to Samuel through His word, so God will do for each person:

1 Samuel 3:21 (NIV) The LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.
Jesus has promised that you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV) You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Deuteronomy 4:29 (NIV) But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your
soul.

Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Luke 11:9-10 (NIV) "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

10 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
There are incomprehensible depths of wisdom, knowledge, understanding and truth in the Word of God. Every single letter of the Scriptures is important.

Matthew 5:18 (KJV) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.

Psalm 18:30 (NIV) As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.

Proverbs 30:5 (NIV) "Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Isaiah 40:8 (NIV) The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

Matthew 24:35 (NIV) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Many of the truths of the Scriptures are visible only to those filled with the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV) The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The world is blind to these truths.

Matthew 15:14 (NIV) Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
Because the world cannot see these truths, their claim is that these truths do not exist. The thinking of the world has invaded the church. The Laodicean Church referenced in Revelation 3:14 was an actual church in the city of Laodicea.

Throughout the last 2,000 years of the Christian era, there have been individual local churches that have reflected the basic attributes and character of one of the seven individual local churches referenced in Revelation 2:1 through Revelation 3:22. Additionally, the entire church as a world-wide whole has reflected the attributes and character of one of the individual seven churches during sequential dispensations across the last 2,000 years.

The final church age, the one we are living in, is the Laodicean church age. One of the symptoms of this last Laodicean church age is blindness:

Revelation 3:17 (NIV) You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor,
blind and naked.

I do not allege that any Holy Spirit filled Christian has perfect understanding.

We can however, "See through a glass darkly." (I Corinthians 13:12)

We see darkly, but the world and the Laodicean church is totally blind!

Some blind, worldly, Laodicean "theologians" have alleged that there is only a single truth in any of the parables spoken by Jesus. Their inability to see manifold spiritual truth has forced them to draw the conclusion that none is
there. A rich panorama of truth can be extracted from everything the Saviour said. One of the Scriptures where this is very quickly and easily shown is:

Matthew 25:31-46 (NIV) "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.
32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
40 "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,
43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
45 "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." Note that in the general grouping of the angels, sheep and goats referenced in verses 31 through 33, the Son of Man is only referenced as "He."

In verse 34, and verse 40, when "the sheep" are addressed exclusively, Jesus is titled "The King" in both instances.
In verse 41, and verse 45, when "the goats" are addressed exclusively, Jesus is titled only "He" in both instances.
To the sheep on His right, Jesus is "The King," but to the goats on His left, Jesus is only "He." Jesus is not their king.

In verse 40, where Jesus says "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine," He references "the sheep" as His brothers.

Hebrews 2:11 (NIV) Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
In verse 45, where Jesus says "Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these," He does not reference the goats as His brothers, because they are not.

Matthew 12:48-50 (NIV) He replied to him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" 49 Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. 50

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."