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Topic: Elucidating The Testaments (C) by Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu
Continued from the last episode…
Text Of Interest:
“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.”
Jn 16:12-13
“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”
1Cor 2:13
Topic: Elucidating The Testaments (C) by Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu
Case Study Text:
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
2Tim 3:16-17 (KJV)
Notice that I said in the earlier
episode that the Old Testament is the Scriptures or the Mysteries, which imply
that most of the things stated in them are not plainly stated.Therefore, there
is this exigency for thorough excavation of the latent details in them in order
to ratify every misnomer surrounding their meanings. It is important to state
that the way a message is conveyed will definitely help the receiver to
understand it easily without much subtleness. And if it is conveyed in a cloudy
manner, the receiver has no option rather than to unravel that cloudiness on
the message and make sure he or she comes out with clear information from the
message. Surely, a rightful interpretation of what the message is all about
means a clear understanding of the message and will of course help the receiver
to act in the right direction. And a wrong interpretation of the message will
land the receiver on the wrong pedestal and that would mean he or she will
begin to manifest wrong action(s).Yes if your interpretation of the Scriptures
is wrong definitely your doctrines are going to be wrong as well, there are no
two ways about it!
Greater part of the Scriptures are not
plain stories, they are given to the messengers as visions, and visions are
mainly conveyed in symbols and those symbols doesn’t represent what they appear
to be on the surface. Hence the need to unearth the logical output of what
those symbols stands for, this is very essential in studying the Scriptures.
This has been the problem of the people of God who couldn’t properly digest the
lines of the Scriptures and as a result they couldn’t have the right skill to
grasp in real term what the power and knowledge of God is. So because of lots
of misinterpretation of the Scriptures mistakes are everywhere even in our
churches today (Matt 22:29).
Does it mean God doesn’t want people
to understand these messages? Is it why He gave the messengers the messages in
symbols and illustrations and so on? Well, I have to state here that the
messages are spiritual and some of the messengers didn’t have the spiritual
withal to fully comprehend the messages hence God delivering the messages to
them according to their level of understanding of spiritual matters. For instance in Acts 10:10 -16 the best way
to communicate to Peter who is an adamant Jewish believer at that time, is the
way God communicated to him in that vision about the Gentiles. The best way God
could communicate to Daniel about the rising and falling of powers in his days
was to use metals and clays structures. Moses couldn’t understand who Satan is
hence the use of snake to express how subtle Satan is.
Jesus in the gospel once told His
audience that they have to eat His flesh and blood in order to have a place in
Him. A statement that didn’t go down well with some of His disciples and so
many of the people listening to Him at that particular time because they had a
literal understanding of what He said. They couldn’t fathom the rationale
behind such an ‘unguided’ statement in the sense that they knew Him and His
background upbringing and because of that they left the scene. Nevertheless, they
knew Jesus after flesh and never had a real revelation of who He actually is. This
story took place in the gospel and the gospel doesn’t seem to be the Old
Testament. It is very interesting to know that the era of the gospel messages
is conducted under the law. Remember, Jesus came to fulfill the law and while
He walked the face of this earth he taught people, in parables and parables are
coded languages.
The way and manner the activities in
the gospels were conducted, it is very obvious that the gospels are extension
of the Old Testament because of that some teachings and statements from them
should not be used to establish a Christian doctrine, because such statements
and teachings needed to be deciphered.Furthermore, the Old Testament is
regarded as the shadows of things to come, including the gospels and of course
one cannot get niceties from shadows Col 2:17. But because of revelation
knowledge built up by decoding the messages of the Old Testament, the New
Testament has better precise, concise, accurate, factual and specific messages.
This happened because of the advent of the Holy Ghost that came to dwell in the
believers. See Jn 16:12-13, 1 Cor 2:13, Rom 16:25. So from the book of Acts through Revelation
are teachings and instructions developed as a result of decoding the messages
of the Old Testament by the Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Teachers and
Evangelist that Jesus Christ gave to the Church.
To be continued….
Till I come your way again, keep on
basking in the Arena of Indubitable Truth!
Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu
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