Have you ever wished that the Bible had its own tutorial?

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

What if I told you that the Bible is a self-paced correspondence course from God, complete with a tutorial and an answer sheet to check your work?

Sound crazy? How could that be true and nobody knew?

In a word, stumbling blocks: errors and/or omissions in our understanding which distort our view and obstruct vital information. It is human nature to judge something new based on what we know... view what is in front of us in light of what is behind us.

Our belief system configures the filters through which we see the world. We built with bricks or blocks of data and set them in place with the mortar of reasoning. When you change your mind about something, you generally re-position a few bricks with new reasoning. But when something existential comes along and topples what you have built, you re-build on the only true foundation: the Law and the Prophets, with Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone. This is the rebuilding of the Spiritual Temple.

The Holy Bible has a tutorial that is a small puzzle within the larger puzzle that is all of God's Word, and the methods used to solve the tutorial apply to all of His Word. It teaches a new perspective, enabling one to see things differently and discover things that one could describe as lurking just below the surface of The Word. Things that were there all along, but overlooked by our misreading.

The tutorial comes with an answer sheet to check your work: The solution to the tutorial is a set of inter-related prophecies that are later fulfilled to the last detail in subsequent books within the canon.

Using only the faith of a child (open-mindedness, thirst for knowledge), the wisdom of an adult (logic and reason), and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Jesus became my only teacher. By reading out of the verses only and exactly what they say, and not into them what others have said, I have learned how to see time the way in which God and His Prophets see and describe it, and have reached a level of understanding that I can illustrate and demonstrate to everyone the fact that God told the end from the beginning with mind-boggling precision. The Spirit suggested that I call it the Almanac of the Prophets of Israel.

The Almanac is a timeline of the written history of the West (Europe/Americas) over-laid with a template of Biblical timekeeping principles. The correlation between what should happen and what actually did is stunning. The saga of the Tribes of Israel is the legend for the timeline, and everything they did and was prophesied about them are manifestations of metaphysical laws being described in metaphor.

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

MastersApprentice said:

What if I told you that the Bible is a self-paced correspondence course from God, complete with a tutorial and an answer sheet to check your work?

Sound crazy? How could that be true and nobody knew?

In a word, stumbling blocks: errors and/or omissions in our understanding which distort our view and obstruct vital information. It is human nature to judge something new based on what we know... view what is in front of us in light of what is behind us.

Our belief system configures the filters through which we see the world. We built with bricks or blocks of data and set them in place with the mortar of reasoning. When you change your mind about something, you generally re-position a few bricks with new reasoning. But when something existential comes along and topples what you have built, you re-build on the only true foundation: the Law and the Prophets, with Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone. This is the rebuilding of the Spiritual Temple.

The Holy Bible has a tutorial that is a small puzzle within the larger puzzle that is all of God's Word, and the methods used to solve the tutorial apply to all of His Word. It teaches a new perspective, enabling one to see things differently and discover things that one could describe as lurking just below the surface of The Word. Things that were there all along, but overlooked by our misreading.

The tutorial comes with an answer sheet to check your work: The solution to the tutorial is a set of inter-related prophecies that are later fulfilled to the last detail in subsequent books within the canon.

Using only the faith of a child (open-mindedness, thirst for knowledge), the wisdom of an adult (logic and reason), and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Jesus became my only teacher. By reading out of the verses only and exactly what they say, and not into them what others have said, I have learned how to see time the way in which God and His Prophets see and describe it, and have reached a level of understanding that I can illustrate and demonstrate to everyone the fact that God told the end from the beginning with mind-boggling precision. The Spirit suggested that I call it the Almanac of the Prophets of Israel.

The Almanac is a timeline of the written history of the West (Europe/Americas) over-laid with a template of Biblical timekeeping principles. The correlation between what should happen and what actually did is stunning. The saga of the Tribes of Israel is the legend for the timeline, and everything they did and was prophesied about them are manifestations of metaphysical laws being described in metaphor.

Whispered · Sep 7, 2019

Hello, welcome to the community.
What are you selling? I like to get to the point in threads like this. It appears as if you're promoting your own teaching of sorts. Is this the case?

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

Whispered said:

Not my own teaching. Straight from the Holy Spirit. No smoke and mirrors, just logic and reason. The evidence should speak for itself if you are patient enough to ponder what has been posted. It is absolute proof that God told the end from the beginning with great precision.

Whispered · Sep 7, 2019

You were known as Steven Heiss in 2017 @ Worthy Christian Forums.https://www.worthychristianforums.com/topic/213967-the-almanac-of-the-prophets-of-israel/

You posted a table similar to the one in the OP.

Your greeting text @ Worthy:
I was raised in a Community Presbyterian Church, but fell away from God and the Holy Bible in my rebellious youth. After seven years in the wilderness, as an arrogant, atheistic, anarchist, I found my way back to God through His Word. I made a covenant with the Lord that day. I prayed for the wisdom and understanding to solve a puzzle I had discovered. In return, I promised to tell the world and glorify His Name. After 30+ years of patient persistence, and listening to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, I have learned the fullness of the message I am to tell. I have come here to tell you my story and give testimony to the truth of the Holy Bible... to fulfill the obligation of my promise to God.
Your Brother in Christ, Steven.
https://www.worthychristianforums.c...-name-is-steven/?tab=comments#comment-2685331

I guess my question is, what caused you to stop posting at Worthy? What do you seek to find here among us?
Thanks.

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

Whispered said:

You were known as Steven Heiss in 2017 @ Worthy Christian Forums.https://www.worthychristianforums.com/topic/213967-the-almanac-of-the-prophets-of-israel/

You posted a table similar to the one in the OP.

Your greeting text @ Worthy:
I was raised in a Community Presbyterian Church, but fell away from God and the Holy Bible in my rebellious youth. After seven years in the wilderness, as an arrogant, atheistic, anarchist, I found my way back to God through His Word. I made a covenant with the Lord that day. I prayed for the wisdom and understanding to solve a puzzle I had discovered. In return, I promised to tell the world and glorify His Name. After 30+ years of patient persistence, and listening to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, I have learned the fullness of the message I am to tell. I have come here to tell you my story and give testimony to the truth of the Holy Bible... to fulfill the obligation of my promise to God.
Your Brother in Christ, Steven.
https://www.worthychristianforums.c...-name-is-steven/?tab=comments#comment-2685331

I guess my question is, what caused you to stop posting at Worthy? What do you seek to find here among us?
Thanks.

My purpose is to entice others to look at the scriptures in this new light. I seek new audiences, and while I am not surprised to find an overlap in viewers, I do expect to find people whom I have not yet encountered.

Whispered · Sep 7, 2019

MastersApprentice said:

That's fair.

Why use different names on forums if you have a following of those you've encountered already?

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

I do not seek followers. I invite others to follow the one I follow. This is not about me. It is about Him and His Word, and of course, the Holy Spirit.

maxwel · Sep 7, 2019

Just a couple of questions that are sort of confusing me:

1. If Christians DO NOT need any earthly teachers, then why should we be listening to you? It seems we don't need you at all.

2. If Christians DO need earthly teachers, then how did you come up with all this stuff without earthly teachers, which you assert that we actually need?
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TheDivineWatermark · Sep 7, 2019

I'll have to take a closer look at your chart... but upon first glance, I see at least one similarity to my view [or, four

], in that, I've made posts in the past about... well, I'll just post a brief part of a previous post, here:

"Revelation 6:9-11.
"The four living creatures have uttered their four-fold “Come.” They are thus seen in connection with the providential government of the world. [note: I've mentioned before that I believe "the 4 living creatures" in some way represent the "4-directional plotment" of Israel of OT times--these match their descriptions--which I won't get into here] [...]"

--Gaebelein, Commentary on Rev6 [source: BibleHub; bracketed comment mine; bold and underline mine]

Of course, in my chronology (as I see it), the four living creatures (first four SEALS) start at the beginning of a future 7-yr period (commonly called the 70th Week of Daniel, or the tribulation period), but I see that we do seem to see "the four living creatures" in the same/similar way... I definitely see 2066 as being "too far out"

(compared against the chronology I've come up with in my own studies).

Again, I'll take a closer look at what you have to present, and see if I can made heads or tails out of it.

[just an expression

]

Nehemiah6 · Sep 7, 2019

MastersApprentice said:

Why the written history of the West, when Israel is the focus of the Bible? Something does not sound right and British Israelism is fake.

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

maxwel said:

I do not assert that we need earthly teachers. I certainly didn't. That is the dichotomy of my message: to convince others that they don't need earthly teachers, not even me. I can only point the way and show what I have found. It is up to the reader to verify in the scriptures if this is so and look to the Spirit for confirmation. I would not deprive others of the epiphanies that await.

maxwel · Sep 7, 2019

MastersApprentice said:

So if we do not need earthly teachers... then we do not need you.

So why are you trying so hard to teach us things if we don't need you for anything?

.

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

Nehemiah6 said:

This is not British Israelism, but it shares some similarities. Armstrong got a few things right when trying to reverse engineer the code, but he also got many things wrong, especially some of the conclusions. He did not see the bigger picture, nor did he account for some passages that would redirect his assertions.

Yes, Israel is the focus of the Bible, but your tone indicates you have a different definition of Israel than I do. What is Israel, according to your reading of the scriptures?

Whispered · Sep 7, 2019

Nehemiah6 said:

I like that you noted that about Israel being the focus of the Bible. If I may ask you, what is your position as concerns what is called, Replacement Theology?

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

maxwel said:

It is my Covenant duty. I promised to tell the world if he would grant me the wisdom to solve the riddle that is actually a tutorial.

if you can't see that God told the end from the beginning, you need someone to show you that the tutorial exists. Not to walk you through it and down a path, but to point out a way to study on your own so that you don't need earthly teachers. How else would you know?

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

Whispered said:

I would have to look it up. I have avoided the commentary of others during my studies so as to not read anything into the scriptures that did result from a prompting of the Spirit.

MastersApprentice · Sep 7, 2019

Question: "What is replacement theology / supersessionism?"

Answer: Replacement theology (also known as supersessionism) essentially teaches that the church has replaced Israel in God’s plan. Adherents of replacement theology believe the Jews are no longer God’s chosen people, and God does not have specific future plans for the nation of Israel. Among the different views of the relationship between the church and Israel are the church has replaced Israel (replacement theology), the church is an expansion of Israel (covenant theology), or the church is completely different and distinct from Israel (dispensationalism/premillennialism).

I have yet to open the links to see the distinction between these schools of thought, but I already have multiple problems leading up to that. When Israel declared independence from Judah, through the Prophet Ezekiel, God promised that Ephraim (whom He calls Israel) and all of the tribes and peoples associated with him would one day be reunited with Judah and the tribes and peoples associated with him, and never again would they be separated.

The Jews are not the only ones chosen. He chose Israel, of which the Jews were but a small but very important part. The fact that there is a country of mostly Jews who call their nation Israel does not change what the scriptures say, but for some it has apparently changed what they mean. They read Israel and think Judah. Israel (Ephraim) and Judah are the principle heirs of the Covenant: rivals, locked in a symbiotic relationship with a competitive dynamic. They are by no means interchangeable.

The bad news is that too many prophecies have been misapplied. The Good News is that many of the same prophecies were actually fulfilled generations prior. No one noticed because they were already confused by the churches.

The Church replacing Israel? Hogwash! The true Biblical Israel is the family into which individuals are adopted by Faith. The Church asserting a role is just like the whores they are. If we are to be like a bride to Christ, those who come between us and our betrothed for compensation are committing prostitution and we are guilty of adultery.

maxwel · Sep 7, 2019

MastersApprentice said:

Right... but if we don't need teachers, and YOU assert that we don't... then we still don't need you for anything.

If God wants us to know this stuff, God can just tell us all directly, and we don't need you for anything at all.

And just what if...
what if I'm studying alone with no teacher... .and God shows me everything YOU are saying is FALSE?
What then?

Seems to me we have some real dilemmas here if nobody needs a teacher, and nobody's theology needs to be corroborated or tested.

Ya know... if I really sit and think about it... this is exactly how most cults came about.

Ya know... just thinking out loud.

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TheDivineWatermark · Sep 7, 2019

Since we're entering the subject of just what/who the identity of "Israel" is...

consider the following (posted before):

[quoting my past posts on this]

I'm looking for a different quote by George V Wigram... but (in the meantime) in its place, I'll just post this brief portion also by him (note the phrase "God's governmental ways on earth," which is what I believe Roman's 11's "olive tree" represents):

[quoting]

"Gen. 27:29 [Isaac blessing Jacob]. Let peoples (gamnzim, pl.), serve thee and [manners or sorts of ] nations (l'ummim, pl.) bow down to thee: be lord [a mighty man] over thy brethren.

"Observe, this would not run the source of the division of people back to Shem, Ham and Japhet, so as to make the word to be equivalent to what we call the races of people, in connection with the Noahic earth, who constitute the whole human family. The subdivision here alluded to took place in the family of Isaac, type of the heir of promise, not earlier; and the heads of this subdivision are brought before us in Rom. 9 All God's ways and subdivisions are to be noted."

[also]

"f Israel is the goh'y of experience, promise, blessing on the earth; the center of all God's governmental ways on earth; but in saying that, I look at them from outside and as one whole. When they are owned as gammi, my people, their detailed state and associations within is the aspect in which they are considered."

--George V Wigram

http://bibletruthpublishers.com/heb...t-testimony-psalms-article/g-v-wigram/la61041

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[quoting that other article]

"[re: Romans 11] In Jesus Christ, if the question be about Christian position, eternal life, or the Church considered in her essential relationship to Christ, there was neither Jew nor Gentile; the thoughts found in this chapter [Romans 11] can THERE have no place. If the question be about the cutting off of an individual for sinful conduct, little matters it whether he be Jew or Gentile; that has nothing to do with it, and on the other hand, there would be no question about grafting in again of the Jews more than of any others, and neither Jews nor others could be grafted in, if God had cut them off in such a manner. And if it were a question about a warning from the Apostle to Christians at Rome, and so to others elsewhere, as being brethren, it would be almost nonsense to say, " And thou, O Gentile, take heed!" Why, thou, O Gentile? Had not Christians, Jews by birth, as much need to take heed? Or could the Spirit of God, in such a warning, have made the distinction, and thus denied the principle of, the Church of God in which there is neither Jew nor Gentile? If the question is about a divine administration upon earth, then God can well make the distinction and develop his ways towards the one and the other; and it is plain that from the commencement of the ninth chapter the Apostle is occupied with and pointedly contrasts the Jews and the Gentiles, presenting us with the administration of the divine ways upon the earth. First declaring his attachment to Israel, he points out an election in the election for the earth, and further, that if God according to his sovereignty had chosen Israel (and such was Israel's boast), He had not renounced His sovereignty; and consequently, He could call the Gentiles if he would. Then he recalls to mind that the prophets had shown that a little remnant only, of Israel, at such an epoch, would be saved, and that a stone of stumbling would be laid in Zion."

-- Thoughts on Romans 11 and the Responsibility of the Church, Present Testimony: Volume 4 George V. Wigram

http://bibletruthpublishers.com/tho...the-church/present-testimony-volume-4/la85282

[end quoting; bold and underline mine]

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Thoughts?

[P.S. also this article --> http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/reformed/israelaf.htm "How is the Term Israel Used in the New Testament?" ]

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