MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
THE FAITH AND RELIGION OF JESUS CHRIST WITNESSED TO BY THE SAINTS OF THE BIBLE’S HALL OF FAITH
(Part 2)
“By it (faith) the elders obtained a good report.” Hebrews 11: 2, KJV.
By carefully reading through this “Faith chapter” of 40 verses, stripped of preconceived opinion, it becomes self-evident that verse one (read it again) is less of a dictionary-like DEFINITION of faith and more a DESCRIPTION of what genuine Biblical faith and the faith of Jesus (cited in Rev. 14:12) has done, and will do for all the true followers of Christ from Abel down to the last saints of the final generation before earth’s probation closes.
Verse 3 quickly reveals why atheists are more consistent in denying Creation because they don’t believe in God and the Bible than professed Christianity who profess “sola scriptura” as the basis of their faith yet openly deny the fourth commandment of the Decalogue (Exo. 20: 8-11; Deut. 5: 12-14; Heb. 4:1-11, etc.) that alone definitively explains WHO God Creator is, WHEN and HOW “the earth and all that in them is” was created, and the one and only day of each week the Creator appointed, set apart, and sanctified by the same fiat He spoke the worlds and the earth into existence after His six-day work of “creating the heavens and the earth in the beginning,” as the weekly (never monthly or annual) MEMORIAL DAY of His creative power and authority and the creation origin of man and the earth.
Hebrews 11:3 says, “Through FAITH we understand [not conjecture or surmise] that the WORLDS were framed by the word of God, so that things which are SEEN were NOT made of things which do appear.” Another verse that assures all faithful believers and commandment-keeping saints (Rev. 14:12) of the existence of other worlds created by the only-begotten Son of God, who became the Son of man through the mystery of the incarnation (1 Tim. 3:16; John 1:1-14, etc.) and declared Himself as “the Lord of the Sabbath” (Matt. 12:6-8; Mark 2:27, 28; Luke 6: 5, 6) is also in the book of Hebrews that declares (emphasis mine):
“God. who at sundry times and diverse manners spoke in time past to the fathers [elders,patriarchs] by the prophets, hath in these last days [New Testament Christian dispensation] spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed Heir of all things, by whom also He made the WORLDS.” (Heb.. 1:1, 2).
Learn new truth every single day from the increasing and progressively “marvelous light,”of the “present, testing truths” of the last days from “the law and testimony” (Isa . 8:20), which is “the word” of the Bible and the “Spirit of prophecy which is the Testimony of Jesus” (Rev. 19: 10).
To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.