Thursday, August 1, 2013

And then there is the book of Hebrews.  I think I will stay here for awhile.  I love this book.  They say Paul wrote it, but no one is sure.  It doesn't sound like Paul.  When Paul  is writing something,  right in the middle of it he gets caught up in something else.  He always returns to his subject, but I think that his head was so full of knowledge that he literally burst with desire to cover it all in one breath.

Hebrews isn't quite like that.  I love the way it starts.

Heb. 1: 1-2a  "God, who at sundry (many, several) times and if divers (various) manners spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his Son…"

If someone comes to you with a "new word" or a "new prophecy"  you can automatically know that they are a false teacher.  All prophecy ended with Jesus Christ.  Only the second coming is unfulfilled.  The Old Testament predicts the coming of Jesus.  That was fulfilled.  Perfectly, in every prophetic detail.  And there were many, many prophecies--all of them exactly fulfilled in Jesus.

But nowhere does our Bible say that new prophets will come, or new words will come.  John the Beloved wrote the last book of prophecy.  Revelation.  The heart of the Bible is the first and second coming of Christ.

You don't need any more prophecy.  You have it all.  God spoke in the olden days through prophets.  But in these last days He has spoken through His Son.  In these last days.  Jesus spoke.  Those who knew and wrote of him 2000 years ago are the final word from God.  The Word of God.  

That's it.  Listen to the Son.  But people have itching ears--they want ghosts, aliens, and vampires.

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