Thus Saith the Lord

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Thus Saith the Lord
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Thus Saith the Lord

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of
  God, complete and without error in the original
  autographs.
• What do we mean by inspired? importance of
  Symantics

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What does Inspired Mean?

• Often the word inspired is used denote pieces of
  great art or great literature. It challenges
  the human heart to reach new heights.
• This definition, however, does not make the Bible
  unique.
• The same could be said of the poems of Robert
  Frost, the plays of Shakespeare, the music of
  Beethoven and the art of Monet
• Others use the word inspired to denote that the
  Bible contains the Word of Godalong with several
  myths, legends. The part that I am inspired by
  is from God.

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What does the Bible say about itself?

• 2 Timothy 316 All scripture is given by
  inspiration of God, and is profitable for
  doctrine, for reproof, for correction , for
  instruction in righteousness
• Greek word for inspiration is theopneustos
  theh-op-nyoo-stos divinely breathed in
• Greek word of all pas means all, any, every,
  the whole, always
• The scripture does not allow you to pick and
  choose what is inspirational and what is not.

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How detailed is it inspired?

• In Galatians 316 Paul cites Genesis 1315 and
  178 by saying Now to Abraham and his seed were
  the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds,
  as of many but as of one, And to thy seed which
  is Christ.
• Paul makes his entire argument based on the
  inspiration of the word seed being plural and
  not singular.

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What is considered Scripture?

• Pauls use of the word scripture does not just
  refer to the Old Testament. In 1 Timothy 518
  Pauls says For the scripture saith, though shalt
  not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
  And, the labourer is worthy of his reward --
  quoting both Deut 254 and Luke 107

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What is considered Scripture?

• 2 Peter 3 15, 16 And account that the
  longsuffering of our Lord is salvation even as
  our beloved brother Paul also according to the
  wisdom given unto him hath written unto you As
  also in all his epistles, speaking in them of
  these things in which are some things hard to be
  understood, which they that are unlearned and
  unstable wrest, as they do also the other
  scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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Gods words or Mans words

• 2 Peter 120-21 Knowing this first, that no
  prophecy of the scripture is of any private
  interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old
  time by the will of man but by holy men of God
  spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost.
• God used different personalities and different
  literary styles but the message is Gods

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Gods words or Mans words

• 2 Samuel 23 1, 2 Now these be the last words of
  David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man
  who was raised up on high, the anointed of the
  God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel,
  said, The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his
  word was in my tongue.

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Circular Reasoning

• We did not start by assuming the Bible was the
  Word of God but rather established the historical
  reliability of the scriptures through by applying
  historical criticism (Bibliographical, Internal
  Evidence, External Evidence)
• Once establishing the historical accuracy of the
  Bible we then focused on the Person of Jesus
  Christ establishing that he claimed to be the
  Christ, the Son of the living God

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Testimony of Jesus

• His claims where proven out through his physical
  Resurrection. (The miracle that authenticates the
  message.)
• If he is indeed God then he would speaks with
  authority on all matters.
• It was he that who confirmed the inspiration of
  the and canonization of the Hebrew scriptures
• It is he who promised that the Holy Spirit would
  direct the apostles into all truth (John
  1613)

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Jesus Testimony of the O.T.

• Matthew 517-18 Think not that I am come to
  destroy the law, or the prophets I am not come
  to destroy, but to fulfill. 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. (Jotsmallest Hebrew letter
  which looks like an apostrophe, tittle, a very
  small extension or protrusion on several Hebrew
  letters, which distinguish these letters from
  similar ones)

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Jesus Testimony of the O.T.

• John 1035 The scripture cannot be broken
• Jesus used the term it is written or it was
  written 33 times in the Gospels

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Regarding the scriptures to come

• John 14 26, But the Comforter, which is the
  Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
  he shall teach you all things, and bring all
  things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have
  said unto you.
• John 1612-13 I have yet many things to say unto
  you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when
  he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide
  you into all truth for he shall not speak of
  himself but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall
  he speak and he will shew you things to come.

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Miracles Prophesy used to authenticate the
message

• Isaiah 4123 Shew the things that are to come
  hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods
• Deuteronomy 18 19-22

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Messianic Prophesies

• Over 300 prophesies regarding the coming of
  Christ including the exact time of his triumphal
  entry into Jerusalem

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Non-Messianic Prophesies

• Isaiah 4428 that saith of Cyrus, He is my
  shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure even
  saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built and to
  the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
• This was written around 700 B.C. naming Cyrus as
  the king who will authorize the rebuilding of the
  temple

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Non-Messianic Prophesies

• In 539 B.C. the Persians conquered Jerusalem and
  a Persian king named Cyrus gave the decree to
  rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem

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City of Tyre

• Ezekiel 26 7-9
• Ezekiel 26 12-14
• Nebuchadnezzar will destroy the mainland city of
  Tyre
• Debris will be thrown into the water
• She will be made a bare rock flat like the top
  of a rock
• Fisherman will spread nets over the site

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City of Tyre

• After at 13 year siege 585 -573 B.C. Tyre made
  terms and with Nebuchadnezzar and surrendered the
  city. When Nebuchadnezzar broke the city gates
  down he found the city almost empty.
• Most of the inhabitants had been moved by ship to
  an island on-half mile off the coast and
  fortified a city there.
• The mainland city was destroyed in 573
  (prediction 1) but the city of Tyre on the
  island remain a powerful city for several hundred
  years.

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City of Tyre

• In his war with the Persians Alexander the Great
  after defeating Darius II at the Battle of Issus
  marched southward toward Egypt asking to
  Phoenician to deny the use of there ports to the
  Persian fleet.
• The citizens of Tyre refused to do so Alexander
  laid siege and destroyed the mainland city and
  used the debris of the city to begin the building
  of a causeway to the island (prediction 2).
• After the causeway was completed Alexander the
  Great destroyed the city killed 8000 of the
  inhabitants and sold another 30,000 into
  slavery.

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Tyre

• The Secular historian Philip Myers writes that
  Alexander the Greatreduced Tyre to ruins.
  She recovered in a measure from this blow, but
  never regained the place she had previously held
  in the world. The larger part of the site of the
  once great city is now bare as the top of a rock
  (prediction 3) a place where the fishermen
  that still frequent the spot spread their nets to
  dry (prediction 4)

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Prophesies referring to other Cities

• Sidon (Ezekiel 2822-23)
• Petra and Edom (Isaiah 3413, Jeremiah 4918,
  Ezekiel 2514, Isaiah 3410)

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Rise of Empires

• Rise of Nations (Daniel 236-42)
• Babylon (Gold) -- head
• Medo-Persia (silver) chest, arms
• Greece (Bronze) stomach thighs
• Rome (Iron) -- legs
• Rome divided (clay, iron) -- feet

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Charles Wesley

• The Bible must be the invention either of good
  men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God.
• It could not be invention of good men or angels,
  for they neither would or could make a book, and
  tell lies all the time they were writing it,
  saying, 'Thus saith the Lord, when it was their
  own invention.
• It could not be the invention of bad men or
  devils, for they would not make a book which
  commands all duty, forbids all sin, and condemns
  their souls to hell to all eternity.

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Charles Wesley

• thus, it must be written by divine inspiration"