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| Woman – Pure, Virgin = God’s Church |
Symbols And Parables
Why does God use symbols and parables?
The Answer to this question can be found in the Bible, let God
answer for Himself.
Let the
Bible Be its Own Interpreter:
13 Therefore
speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear
not, neither do they understand.
14 And
in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall
hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not
perceive:
15 For this
people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their
eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be
converted, and I should heal them.
16 But
blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For
verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see
those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things
which ye hear, and have not heard them.
34 All
these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable
spake he not unto them:
35 That
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my
mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the
foundation of the world.
The Meaning of the text is clear. Jesus spoke in parables because
they/we are not paying attention!
We see and hear, but do not put any effort into understanding.
The truth of the Bible comes to those who put effort into
understanding it.
Jesus used stories that the hearers would remember.
He wanted to tell the people the plain meaning of the lessons that
He was illustrating, but many were prejudiced and would not listen except to
the stories that He told.
Parable speaking was popular in His time and captured the
attention of all; the Leaders, the people, and those of other nations.
People were curious to find out the meanings of the parables that
Jesus taught.
The Priests and Rabbis were frequently secretly among the people
and were waiting for Jesus to say something that they could use against Him, so
He could not speak openly and plainly, but the leaders and Rabbis knew what He
was saying and implying. John 11:53–54
Remember, Christ is the actual author of all the Bible. John
5:39
Its contents were transmitted through the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit to human beings. Both the New and Old Testaments.
He wanted us to search His Word diligently to find the
lessons and doctrine and messages that He has buried there for us, He wants us
to study to find His lessons as if we were searching for earthly treasures.
He knew we would not value a plain straightforward message,
and that we would take it for granted, and that we would only value the message
if we had to search for it for ourselves. John 5:39–40
God knew that we would misapply, and distort the doctrines
that He gave to us plainly, but He concealed His doctrines in Symbolism so
that we would search, and discover, and confirm the doctrine that he gave to us
through the prophets by Symbolism. Jude
3-4.
Christ veiled many of the doctrines and lessons in Symbols
and Signs and Parables so that they would be protected, and could be verified
untouched by other human interpretations as they were uncovered in His Word.
Many of the Bible’s books and chapters were written in the time of
the Prophets before the time of Christ, by the wisdom of Christ.
These messages were written specifically for the people of that
time, but they have a dual meaning in
them.
As important as they were to the people of the time that they were
written for, they have even greater importance for the people of our time upon
which the ends of the earth are come.
Read 1 Corinthians 10:1–13, especially 1
Corinthians 10:6. In light of these texts, we have a lot of homework
to do. That is the focus of this website.
The Bible – God’s Proof of His Existence
and Divinity:
The Bible is the only book that
can and does predict the future 100% accurately.
The
Bible is a book that is Divinely inspired. It was given to us through the
medium of the Holy Spirit.
As
you read and study the content of this website it is my desire that you can see
more fully than ever before that the Bible is of Heavenly origin and that no man or group of men could have ever under any circumstances have produced the content
that is in the Bible.
The
Bible is above every other book ever written,
including any other of the “Holy Books”, because it is the only book that can, and does, through Prophecy predict
world history in advance.
In
fact, God challenges others (gods) to try and predict history in Isaiah
42:8-9; Isaiah
46:9-10; Isaiah 41:21–23.
In
this last verse, he taunts those who claim to usurp His claim to be the only
true God, and to provoke them to try and Prophesy accurately as He does.
Prophecy is proof that God is God, and He does exist,
and the Bible (the Word of God) is what it says it is, because no other god can
or has predicted history and events 100% as
God has.
Some
so called prophets such as Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon, and others, can
get some predictions right, but remember the old saying that even a broken
clock is correct twice a day.
God’s
claim is that He is 100% correct, because He knows the end from the
beginning. Isaiah
46:10
The Cost of Salvation:
We must be “Safe to Save,” God cannot take Sinners to heaven to
risk the recurrence of sin. Nahum
1:9
The Cost of Salvation
The Salvation of the human race is about restoring us to what God
Created us to be before sin came into the world.
In order to be saved, we must be safe to save.
That means that God has expended all His effort on this earth to
bring it back to what is was originally intended to be at the creation.
Talk about being inconvenienced! Heaven has been on hold for
the last 6,000 years since sin came about.
God and all the heavenly hosts have been sidetracked from their
normal business for the salvation of this world.
Heaven and its hosts are watching this experiment of Satan as it goes bad.
We are on display to the rest of the universe (Yes God has other
beings in other worlds who are uncorrupted by sin Job 1:6–7) to be an example of what
the results of sin are.
God has given all in the
death of His dear Son, and can’t afford to run this experiment over again.
He cannot allow sin to occur again, therefore in love to us, and
the rest of the universe, He cannot take sinners to
heaven.
May the value of this website be to inspire all to study
deeper and understand the messages that God has given us in His Word.
Both the message that is plain, and on the surface, and the
messages that He has veiled in Symbols and Parables.
Why God uses
Symbols:
God uses Symbols so that we will dig deep in His Word, and get to
know Him, and understand the Price that He has paid for us.
So that we will see that He has laid out the future for us and
that we can have confidence in what He has done in the past that will enable
our faith for what He is planning for the future.
Bible
Symbols
are one of the most wonderful and least understood things God has planted in
the Bible for teaching us who He is and His ways. Bible Symbols are
Gems that need to be mined through deep study of the Bible.
The
intention of this website is to teach this type of Bible study to allow the
word of God to shine light on the minds of all His people. My hope and prayer
is that you will find what is here not only interesting but a revelation and
spiritually enabling.
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| The Scribes and Pharisees Watch to catch Jesus say or do something wrong. Luke 20:20 |
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The Cost of Salvation |
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| Woman – Impure = Corrupt Church |
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| Horn = Kings or Kingdoms |
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| Horse = Strength in Battle, Military Power |
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