THE WHOLE BIBLE IS THE WHOLE TRUTH

As I am reading The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life, I feel supported in by belief that a lack of knowledge and understanding of the Old Testament and so much emphasis on the New Testament is the root source of most, if not all, of the problems in our world today.  It is hindering us from knowing and understanding all of God’s Ways for His people.  It is hindering us from fully knowing and understanding Jesus’ mission and message and fully knowing and understanding God’s Word accurately.

It reinforces my beliefs that the church that human hands built are not the same as the Church that Jesus Christ built, the one that the forces of hell cannot destroy.  It reinforces my beliefs that the church built and established by human hands is a “golden calf”, which would explain the gradual decline and failing of that church as we know it. 

God’s original mission and message was exploited for personal gain by the Religious System in Jesus’ days.  Jesus’ mission and message was exploited by those who didn’t fully know or understand His mission and message.  Constantine exploited  Christianity for personal gain only to be followed by the church built and established by human hands for centuries.  That lack of knowledge and understanding is still exploited right up to today as the Gospel of Jesus Christ is being watered down, cheapened, and even done away with.

This is yet another reason I believe the Bible, The Story of God, is to be read as one entire narrative, from beginning to end, Genesis thru Revelation, known and understood in its whole context.  If we start doing that and teaching others to do that, we will clearly see that God has had solutions to most, if not all of our problems if we will simply humble ourselves, seek His face and ask Him, and then follow what He commands us to do.  It is to our peril to do anything else.