<TITLE>06. Par 46-55</TITLE>L-46 Now, the Bible is a different book from any other sacred book. There's no book like the Bible, because the Bible is God in word form. See? It's... A word is a thought expressed. God's thinking expressed It, His Words through the prophets; and they wrote the Bible, which is in word form. And Jesus called It, "a Seed." And any seed will bring forth of its kind if it's in the right condition, the right atmosphere. Now, this Book of... is a... This Book of prophecy, It--It is foretelling future events. Now, the Book contains the entire revelation of Jesus Christ. You don't add to It or take from It, and every revelation must come by It. See, it must be the Word.

L-47   So people say, "I had a revelation." Yes, we know Joseph Smith and many had revelations and things, but was contrary to the Word.

L-48 It's got to come according to the Word if it comes from God, because it's to vindicate or to prove God's Presence. And He foreknew all these things, being... By His fore-knowledge He ordained, foreordained (it's called in the Bible, "predestinated") every age to its place, and every man to its place, and every messenger to its place. He is God, the Devil ain't pulling nothing over on Him. And He's God, and He has ordained everything to take place, and falls just exactly in line with His Word.

L-49 So if we can see, by His Word, what age and what time we're living, you'll see it right here in the Bible, of this age, what we're supposed... what's supposed to take place at this time.

L-50   Now, the--the other books, we find lots of books that they call "sacred books," and so forth. And I've read the--the Koran and many others. But, you see, their--their sacred books are only a code of ethics, of morals, or of theology.

L-51 But this Book is a Prophet, It's a different from any other book. The Bible is the Word of God foretelling the future. It foretells because It's forewarned.

L-52 If God sends anything, He says and promised in the Bible that He would no nothing upon the earth until first He revealed it to His servants the prophets. That's Amos 3:7. He... and God cannot lie. He reveals It, that's been His way of doing it all down through the ages. He's never failed to do it.

L-53   Now, we are promised, in the last days, for this to be restored. There'll be no--no church, no denomination, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals, they'll never (in their modern conditions) ever take this church to a Bride. They can't do it, they fail. They're too much at one another's throats, and worldliness has creeped in, and so forth, and--and they died right in their tracks. And so God knows that.

L-54 And to reveal this Word, one say, "Well, I got this. And bless God, It's like that." That's just the way it was when Jesus came the first time; everyone has a doctrine, everyone had this. It'll have to be something sent to us from God. And God's promised it. And the only way He'll do, is--is keep His same pattern. He promised to send us, in this last days, according to Malachi 4, a prophet upon the earth, "That would turn the hearts of the people back, the hearts of the children back to the apostolic fathers again." He promised that in His Word. Luke 17 and many other places that He promised it, that He... what He would do in these last days to bring this thing to a vindicated Word.

L-55   See, a man can say anything, but 'less God interprets that Word... See, now, we have our own interpretation, we say It means this. And this one, Methodist, says this, the Baptist says this, the Pentecostal said this, the Oneness says this, the Twoness says this. And, oh, my, there you are. But God don't need no interpreter, He's His Own interpreter. He interprets His Own Word by vindicating It in the age that It's purposed for, the age that It's given for.


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