(Ver 1.4)  This is Part 1 on the subject of God’s Knowledge in the Bible.  I always try to teach how important it is in correct Bible interpretation to be open to new ideas, thoughts and to things that maybe you haven’t ever heard  or considered before.  Why do you think that this type of noble attitude might be important to have while studying the Bible?  I think if for no other reason, it is based upon the factor of human ignorance and that we are not God who knows it all.  We as ignorant humans still have a lot left to learn from our God.  If you think that you know it all, or at least that you already know all that you need to know, you are already potentially deceived into believing a lie.  Satan I believe wants you to think that you are smarter than you really are.  Whenever this deception occurs you are then not going to make the effort to seek to know the truth of God’s Word.   Satan wants you ignorant of the truth.  You are easily defeated as an ignorant Christian.  However, God also gives us another very good reason for having a positive attitude and he tells us something that is very profound in the book of Daniel:

Dan 12:4  But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

This verse is a great witness to the fact that God has concealed the meaning of this book until the “time of the end”.  To “shut up” means to hide, keep secret or conceal.  This is a common methodology of God found throughout the Bible.  God has hidden information for us to find.   This information is revealed by the Spirit of God at the proper time.  For some scriptures it was during the time of the Apostles and Paul when God revealed vast amounts of new revelation.  But, it is also for our time based upon this verse in Daniel, that we live in right now.     If you didn’t know it, we are in the time of the end, and guess what it is almost over.  Many of you can look around and see how fast technology is advancing.  But, the net revelation of this verse, to me speaks of both natural and spiritual things.  We of course in the last 20 to 30 years can see the explosion of computers and the internet.  As a result of this technology, man’s knowledge has grown astronomically.  But, God not to be out done by man is also doing something new.  He is revealing the Word of God like never before on a scale that is difficult to comprehend fully.  I believe that if you are reading Bible commentaries that are 100 years old or older then you are reading information that has been updated and expanded so much that it sometimes doesn’t resemble the outdated theology.  It doesn’t mean they were wrong, it just means God has shed more light on it and revealed a more complete meaning of the verses.

Pro 1:23  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Here is a promise from the Old Testament that God said he would pour out His Spirit and by doing so, the result is a new revealing of His word to His people.  I believe that this is a prophetic verse that we can take hold of and claim for ourselves today.  This also reminds me of some other verses in the Bible about the harvest.

Jer 5:24  Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the later, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Natural rain involves water falling from heaven physically, but God is speaking of a spiritual rain in this verse.  Spiritual rain is the water from heaven where Jesus is right now and this rain could be a new understanding of His Word.

Jas 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

In the book of James, it basically quotes from Jeremiah the same reference, but this time it puts it into the context of the return of Jesus Christ.  God is looking for the precious fruit of the earth and that is not apples, oranges and bananas.  The reference and implied meaning of this verse is that when the Apostles and Paul wrote the New Testament that was the early rain.  God poured out His spirit and men increased in spiritual knowledge like never before.  Paul wrote 2/3 of the New Testament after being filled with the Holy Spirit and God revealing to him the meaning of many of the Old Testament scriptures.  However, God did not reveal to Paul the meaning of Daniel, did he?  Have you read anything in Paul’s writings that directly mention Daniel?  I have not, however I do believe that Paul wrote many things that do help us to understand this book that we have yet to see and understand.  You see in this verse in James, God also speaks of a later rain.  The early rain is a reference to a beginning of the rainy season.  The later rain could be implied the end of the rainy season.   I do not think that means there are new books of the Bible to come, I believe that it has to be a new understanding of what has already been given to us by God.  I believe that God has been pouring out His Spirit for the last 100 years and as a result, knowledge and understanding of God’s Word has greatly increased.

You can see this implied reference from Daniel 12:4 where the writer is told to seal up the book until the time of the end.  Did you ever notice that there is no obvious encryption code found in the book of Daniel or any other book of the Bible?  How is it that God can write things in a known language and the reader not understand what it means for hundreds or even thousands of years.  Have you really ever thought about this and asked how God accomplished this task.  Now is certainly the time of the end and therefore something should be transpiring to open up this book so that our understanding can be greatly increased.  If now is the time of the end like I believe it is, then we ought to be learning new things at an exponential rate.  If now is the time of the end there needs to be stuff happening to let us know it.  We should be able to look around at the prophecies and see them being fulfilled all around us.  Have you seen it happening?  I have seen it almost everyday.  We will only be privy to it if you are open to change and new ideas that God will be revealing very soon.  Either decide to be ready for it or be prepared to miss it, for it will happen very soon and ver fast.

If you would like to continue reading in ths series about “Bible Knowlege” you may go to “Part 2“.