Acts 17:22: "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious."
The interpretation was clearly for those of Paul's day. Is there an APPLICATION for us today? Yeah. Just like ALL of God's Word.
Too many Christians today misread God's Word and seemingly have no knowledge of the dispensations of man or the ages spoken of and refered to in the Bible.
Hebrews 1:1: "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,"
Many Christians, seem to fail to understand why we even have the Bible today. But God gave it to us for a purpose. In it He wrote EVERYTHING we need to know. EVERYTHING!
Because we are human and like to do things our own way, we don't like a lot of what we read so we change it, and we twist it, and we re interpret it and we even ignore it until we come up with some kind of compromise we like.
And then we TRY God and His patience. We pray and we ask for a sign, and we He gives it to us, we ask for another sign to confirm that, and when we get it we ask for a comfirmation of the confirmation, and then a confirmation of the confirmation of the confirmation and we keep on until God's patience runs out and says forget it, then we say AHA!!! I knew it. God was not in favor at all.
Same with Prophecies! We seek those and when we think we have one, we keep interpreting and re interpreting until we get the answer we want.
What a sin, shame, and disgrace and slap in the face of a Holy and Righteous God! What kind of God do we think we serve? What did He give us the Bible for? Is it not an instruction Book? Does He not tell us what we need to know in there?
If we have dreams, and we interpret 100 times till we get the desired results and we do the same with prophecies, and then we do the same with His Written Word, how are we to know what is real and true and what is not.
Let me give you a clue. If what you get is contrary to God's Written Word, it is not from God. He willl NEVER contradict Himself. He will never ADD to His Written Word for one person because that would make Him a liar as He has plainly said He is no respector of persons. And He will never add to His Word because that would indicate He was incompetent to get it right the first time or He somehow CHANGED, and He has clearly said in many places He changes NOT, and so He would have to admit He lied again.
No MY God is not a liar nor is He incompetent. He is Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent. He is Almighty God!
He is a Holy and Righteous God and does not play games, nor does He trick His Children. He has given us all the knowledge we need to have and He has written it down in a Book we call the Bible.
Are we too superstitious? When rely on dreams and prophecies and man made intrepretations of those, you bet we are. It is time we took God at His Word and Read it! THAT is our guide, and He has given us The Holy Spirit to guide us into understanding.
The interpretation was clearly for those of Paul's day. Is there an APPLICATION for us today? Yeah. Just like ALL of God's Word.
Too many Christians today misread God's Word and seemingly have no knowledge of the dispensations of man or the ages spoken of and refered to in the Bible.
Hebrews 1:1: "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,"
Many Christians, seem to fail to understand why we even have the Bible today. But God gave it to us for a purpose. In it He wrote EVERYTHING we need to know. EVERYTHING!
Because we are human and like to do things our own way, we don't like a lot of what we read so we change it, and we twist it, and we re interpret it and we even ignore it until we come up with some kind of compromise we like.
And then we TRY God and His patience. We pray and we ask for a sign, and we He gives it to us, we ask for another sign to confirm that, and when we get it we ask for a comfirmation of the confirmation, and then a confirmation of the confirmation of the confirmation and we keep on until God's patience runs out and says forget it, then we say AHA!!! I knew it. God was not in favor at all.
Same with Prophecies! We seek those and when we think we have one, we keep interpreting and re interpreting until we get the answer we want.
What a sin, shame, and disgrace and slap in the face of a Holy and Righteous God! What kind of God do we think we serve? What did He give us the Bible for? Is it not an instruction Book? Does He not tell us what we need to know in there?
If we have dreams, and we interpret 100 times till we get the desired results and we do the same with prophecies, and then we do the same with His Written Word, how are we to know what is real and true and what is not.
Let me give you a clue. If what you get is contrary to God's Written Word, it is not from God. He willl NEVER contradict Himself. He will never ADD to His Written Word for one person because that would make Him a liar as He has plainly said He is no respector of persons. And He will never add to His Word because that would indicate He was incompetent to get it right the first time or He somehow CHANGED, and He has clearly said in many places He changes NOT, and so He would have to admit He lied again.
No MY God is not a liar nor is He incompetent. He is Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent. He is Almighty God!
He is a Holy and Righteous God and does not play games, nor does He trick His Children. He has given us all the knowledge we need to have and He has written it down in a Book we call the Bible.
Are we too superstitious? When rely on dreams and prophecies and man made intrepretations of those, you bet we are. It is time we took God at His Word and Read it! THAT is our guide, and He has given us The Holy Spirit to guide us into understanding.