(Ver 1.3)  This is Part 10 in a series of advanced Bible lessons on the complex methods that God has used to conceal spiritual information in the Bible for us to find.   If you do not understand these concepts of how God hides spiritual information, then you have not read the internet very much.   When I read the internet on any given Bible subject, I can find 15 different interpretations to almost every verse in the Bible.  Everyone is convinced that they know the truth and they teach it like there is nothing else to learn.   We know by the sheer numbers that God is not divided into 15 different interpretive meanings of the Bible.  God did not create but one actual truth and we have not learned it or we would not be seeing so many attempts at what is the truth.  Therefore, we can clearly understand that out of the 15 possibilities that you can read on the internet at least 14 and maybe even all 15 of them are very wrong.  Jesus taught us “that if you continued in His word, then you would be His disciples and then you will come to know the truth and this truth would then set you free” (John 8:31-32).  So if you are not continuing in the Bible to obtain to this level of knowing the truth, you have already determined in your mind that you are free and you therefore, should not be wasting your time reading my Bible lessons today.   What I have been attempting to do in this series of lessons is to point out recognizable, patterns, techniques and methods of hiding the truth using a plain text system of encryption.  I have already covered a lot of information that will not be repeated, so if you have not read these lessons from the beginning I would strongly suggest that you go back and start your reading with “Part 1”.  I will also tell you that I go back and update previous lessons with new information so it might be good for you to go back and reread from the beginning just to get up to date with the latest information on each topic that I have already covered.

Technique 10: Changing the Definition of Common Words, Using Code Names

This is now the tenth technique for concealing the truth in the Bible that I have covered and it is intermixed randomly in several different books, chapters and verses and it is often very difficult to find and recognize unless you know what to look for.  One of the key ways that God uses to conceal information in the Bible is to give you a statement using words that you think you know and can easily define, but then later when you read other parts of the Bible you discover that God has a very different perspective to what these words actually mean.  This is a common practice used in modern language found in the everyday conversations of people.  People use slang words that mean one thing in the dictionary and another completely different thing when heard in the context of the rest of the statement of whoever is speaking.  For example, a popular rock star use to sing a song that claimed “I’m Bad”.  If you used the popular dictionary definition of this word you would think that it meant he was wicked or evil.  However, to the rock star it meant I’m good and I know it.  This is a classic example of changing the definition of a known word to convey a new message.   We have a whole bunch of people in the world who do this every day.   They have invented a new “slanguage” of ways to communicate to each other that others do not understand.   This is a highly tricky method of concealing information using words that are clearly readable on the surface but, unless you know that God does this, you will be in the dark on what you are reading and not even realize it.

In an earlier lesson I taught you about God calling multiple things by the same name and then I taught how God can call one thing by many multiple names and these are certainly very similar techniques to what I am teaching today.  You see God can selectively change the definition of a word only in certain few verses and in other verses the word means something completely different.  Take the word “Day” and try to come up with all of the possible definitions for this one word.  This can be a 24 hour time period, a 12 hour time period, or an 8 hour work day, or just a coming time on the calendar or an era, or it can be a specific time of an event like the day we met and this can be past, present or future and it can mean a time of existence like the day of the dinosaur.  These are common dictionary definitions of the word ‘day” found in the Bible.  But, to God it can also be a specific 1000 year time period based upon God definition of a day found in 2 Peter 3:8.  You can clearly see in this verse that God says that “a Day is” and whenever God does this He is about to change the definition of the word that you thought you knew all about.   It is like a spy or a policeman with an undercover code name.  When someone is undercover they are never called by their real names.  They would always use a code name like “mother goose”, “desert eagle” or “Hawkeye”.   You can recognize that this might be a code name or you might not know that is what it is, nevertheless you would not know the identity of the person based upon this code name alone.  This is a common technique used by the U.S. Secret Service when they are protecting the president, the vice-president and their families.  Everyone is given code names so that they can be easily identified internally, but this name can be changed if compromised and they are clearly using this technique to hide the information about who they are protecting.  In all of these examples, you would have to have a key or a clue to unlock the identity and this is how God also hides information in the Bible using embedded clues for us to find.  If you don’t believe me you should really read the Bible more closely.  I always strongly suggest that people use a Bible software search program that allows you to look up every occurrence of each Hebrew and Greek word found in a scripture.  In doing this you will soon discover if God gives you a definition of the word in another book, chapter or verse of the Bible that may not be what you thought it meant.  Regardless of if there is a new definition or not you will find out what else God says about the subject and learn something potentially new.

So this new concept you are looking for in the Bible is not that complex, but yet it can be very hard to find.  You are looking for verses that say “something” IS “some definition”, or “This IS” something and then some definition.  Of course getting a definition for the word “IS” is not that easy either.  As you listened to a president on TV a few years ago there seems to be many possible definition to this word, but to me it means something that resembles the likeness of something else.  You might call it a synonym or a synonymous term.    I will give you several more examples of this found in the Bible so do not panic and think that you have to figure it out all by yourself.  I already told you about 2 Peter 3:8 where God gives us a very different definition to the word “Day”.  However, you cannot apply this definition to every time you see this word in the Bible or you will get confused.  There will be times when you can use it as a double reference and see if it reveals something new in a verse that you thought you previously understood, but yet it is sometimes challenging to make the transition into the spiritual meanings behind a verse that is describing a natural story.  Take the days of creation in Genesis 1 and 2.  God lists six days of creation and one day of rest in Genesis 1 and 2.  If you try to take the 2 Peter 3:8 definition of a day and make God’s creation last 6000 years, then you would be hopelessly confused.  What you must do is see that Genesis 1 and 2 is describing actual creation 24 hour time periods that have a double referenced meaning for a prophetic day of human history attached to it.  God says “I make known the end from the beginning” (Isa 46:10).   So we must realize that from the information given to us in Genesis, God is revealing the end.   Since it has been nearly 6000 years since the creation of man on the planet, we can understand that this corresponds to the 6 days of creation that are spoken of in Genesis 1 using 2 Peter 3:8 definition of a day.   Therefore, each day of Genesis 1 is a prophetic view into the coming 6 – 1000 year time periods of human history.  When you can see this, then you are approaching the hidden meanings attached to them.  It is very much like solving a very complex riddle or puzzle.  God is the master concealer of information in the Bible and He has implemented some very tricky ways to conceal information in the Bible for us to find.  If you are not a puzzle solver type of person, then you should not be studying the Bible.  I talk about the prophetic viewpoint of the days of creation in other Bible lessons that I have already done, so I will not get into that again in this lesson today.

I will give a few more examples of this technique in the Bible and you might learn how it works when you read about them.  Take the words “eternal life”.  These words occur only around 30 times in the New Testament in about 12 New Testament books.  If you looked up the definitions of the words in the dictionary you might find something like “the condition or state of being alive forever” or “the immortal state of never dying”.  Most Bible scholars associate God’s life span to be eternal or infinite.  We look at God as having no beginning and no end.  Therefore, God possesses eternal life qualities.  But, is this what God is saying in the Bible when He uses these words?  Let’s look at a sample verse:

Rom 2:7  To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

Here we have a very interesting scripture verse.  It speaks of men who seek some things from God.  At least that is what it appears to me to say.  However, notice the end of the statement and see the words “immortality” and “eternal life”.  What is the difference between these two things?  They would seem to be synonymous terms for the same thing from my viewpoint.  Immortality would mean never dying or no end of existence.  I guess “eternal life” could be slightly different when referring to men or to God, but I won’t go there right now.  All men and women on the planet have a beginning when they are born into this world.  So do people exist prior to conception?  Actually that is a really good question, but I believe that from what I have seen in the Bible that people have a set beginning at conception and prior to this they do not exist.  If you know of scripture that states anything differently I would be happy to learn about them.  So now we have the problem of determining when does or if it is possible for a human to ever cease to exist and I do not believe that this is possible based upon what I know about the Bible.  A human is a spirit being who lives in a body and after that body is dead; the spirit then departs to be with the Lord if they are saved (2 Cor 5:8) or they are relocated to hell to await judgment.  If you do not like that explanation you need to learn to read your Bible and see that this is what happened by the words of Jesus himself in Luke 16:22 where God tells us of two men who died and what happened to them after they were buried.   Several very ignorant and spiritually blind people have tried to tell me that this is just a parable, but that is clear fallacy and a feeble attempt to explain away the truth.  Jesus never mentions the name of a real man in any parable, if He did this He would become a liar.  Let’s get back to “immortality” and “eternal life” and why God uses both of these in that verse in Romans 2:7.

Jud 1:21  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Here we have another verse containing the phrase “eternal life” and it appears that whatever this is comes from Jesus Christ.  We are still guessing to determine the definition of these words and we are not any closer to a resolution so we must continue searching the Bible to see if God enlightens us to what we need to know about this subject.  Fortunately I have already done this search and I found God’s definition of “eternal life” in this verse:

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Here is God’s new definition using the classic “This IS” eternal life definition.    If you can see what this verse says, it dramatically changes the definition of every other occurrence found in the New Testament of the phrase “eternal life”.   Those that have eternal life are only those that know God.  If you do not know God then you do not have eternal life.   Of course both groups of people live forever somewhere, but they are in completely different locations within the spiritual realm.  What we have discovered by searching the Bible is a clear redefinition of the words “eternal life” and these are not found in the dictionary definition anywhere.   God is in effect changing our perspectives to how we saw these 30 occurrences in the New Testament that speak about eternal life.  This is clearly a code name substitution method and a great example of how getting God’s definition to the words has revealed the truth to us.  By getting God’s definition, I greatly increased my understanding of the verses that I thought I already understood.

I cannot give you every example, of this technique in the Bible, because I do not know them all.  I will give you a table of some example code names and descriptions found in the Bible and you should go and look up the verses and read them to see how God is changing the classic definition of some common words and phrases.  This is a prevalent method used by God to conceal truth in the Bible and surely you can see it if you study them carefully.

There are too many code names in the Bible for me to list them all.  Jesus was given many code names that describe Him to us in many different hidden ways.  Jesus is called “the Sun of Righteousness”, “the Word of God”, “Daystar”, “Bright and Morning Star”, “Alpha and Omega” and on and on I could go.  Satan is called “the serpent”, “the dragon”, “the deceiver”, “the wicked one”, “the beast” and on and on I could go.   These are all code name substitution techniques that conceal the identity of the one that they are referring to.  By understanding this we begin to unlock some of the doors of the mysteries of God using the keys that He is teaching us how to use.  Jesus told us “I give unto you the keys of the kingdom” (Mat 16:19); could these be some of the things that Jesus was referring to in Matthew 16:19?  A data key always consists of words, letters, phrases or things that you use to unlock encoded information.  For us to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God is the reason for why God put them in the Bible in the first place.  God would have never hidden information if we were not intended to learn them before He comes back for us.  I hope and pray that you have learned some valuable things from this series of lessons and I may write more about it later.  God Bless!

If you would like to continue reading in this series of lessons, please go to “Part 11” next.