Biblical Understanding
Reading God's Word Using God's    
      Method of Comprehension
Progressive Revelation Read In Literary Context
The Holy Spirit Leads Using Written Revelation Read And Understood In Literary Context, All Other Methods Are Not of God  
Challenges
The order of the books of the Bible came about by the domination of two
governments who controlled the religions of their people. The Old Testament was
arranged into several orders according to each faction within Israel during 700-70
B.C. The New Testament was arranged by Rome, who commissioned Jerome to take
the Bible of the believers in Jesus the King, and translate it into Latin, which they did
not speak, and re-arrange the book order forcing the common people to rely totally
upon Roman government to have access to the revelation of Jesus the Messiah.

This Roman plan was designed to take the written text of the believers faith from
them, and force them to rely on Rome for faith and practice for all future
generations. Anyone who resisted this, would be in violation of Roman law and be
jailed or put to death for treason.

This plan presupposes an interesting claim upon which to vindicate itself since Rome
was a kingdom on earth ruled by a King, and Jesus of Nazareth was and is a King of
Israel who was killed as one guilty of treason on a Roman cross. Why would the
Jewish King command His enemy King to guard His revelation decree?

I think you can see the problem with this premise provided by Rome. You
see, there is no way Jesus the King would have another rule His people, in His
stead. This simple fact is hardly ever brought up by religious teachers, Bible
teachers, and Bible educational works writers. I won't get into the complete subject at
this time, this was provided to cause you to think in basic reasoning, which is, Jesus
is the King of Kings, and there is NONE who is over Him and no kingdom whom he
commissioned in His stead to guard His kingdom or revelation.

The biblical books as we know them resulted from a designed plan from an
enemy king and nation, which attempted (and to a large degree succeeded) to
change the way another King's people read His revelation.
Six hundred years later the arrangement is totally accepted as the only Bible people
use, at which time, the addition of chapter markers, and then verse markers, cause
the "Library of Jesus' Revelation" to be referenced more easily.

The system of the library format was then complete. God's basic design could only
be understood if the reader would not abandon the basics of reading an old writing;
locating the processes of progressive revelation and literary context contained within
the writing. Rome understood this fact and planned to counter it with law.

Rome planned for people to struggle with the foreign arrangement and
uncommon language, to the point where they would rely on Rome to manage their
relationship with Jesus and His revelation.
This plan also addressed the people who rebelled against Rome. The thinking was,
the new arrangement would compete against the older standard arrangement (which
was the natural order by reason of the N.T. books arriving one by one over a period
of 60 or more years) exhausting the majority This competition combined with Roman
law prohibiting the use of the older common greek scriptures (handed down from the
Apostles and their believers), would eventually force the abandonment of the
original New Testament used for the last 285 years

Was there a library for this writer to access with Rome's name on it?
Did he suffer from not having the Roman library you have?
DId the readers of the New Testament during 100 - 385 A.D. have "The" N.T?

God designed and caused one writer after another to use the same exact simple
system. A man (who was waiting on God) God inspired to write from his own place in
life, truths only God could have provided. Each writing was protected by God within
the writer's national society, and passed on in that national setting and context.

The plain simple system of reading an authoritative decree designed to reveal a
King's revelation to His people is most simple and honorable. It was purposed to
provide reason and truth by which the reader could be saved by the King himself. To
be faced with being completely separated from the King's kingdom for eternity; or
read and comprehend an invitation to become a citizen of "The King of Kings."

The King directly caused the creation of a written revelation using one of the
people's own kind and environment, placed the revelation in the most base personal
setting possible. By devising this method and medium, the King has ensured that no
matter what nation, era, language, or religious background, anyone can have
access and understand; having a "base form" which all people can relate to easily is
a plan that can not be improved.


This was the first system you used to learn first truths to live by in your life,
God understood this and adopted it also, knowing you would find it most
natural and basic.

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Reading A Bible
Roman domination is an accepted
"State" which all Bible readers assume
was part of the inspiration of God, or His
plan, and it is most certainly not. This is
nothing new, Satan has always been free
to attempt to manipulate man's efforts to
preserve God's revelation, but in the end
because of the system of God providing
His revelation in a literary written context
arriving in a step by step, writer by writer
order, has secured His truths for all

The next considerable challenge is
recognizing within the written text of each
book, the writers literary context and his
order among the other biblical writers.

Training yourself to read a collection of
writings older than 2000 years, means
you must remove your influence, ideas,
assumptions, and adhere to objectivity.

The Bible reader today needs to
remember just the basics when
reading.

First, don't expect to know it all on the
first read, instead expect to re-read many
times over the next 50 years.

Second, chose a new translation but
prefer the oldest one of the newer ones.
As in the NKJV or NASB or NIV. By far
these are more credible and reliable.

Third, read the entire Bible book all the
way through in one sitting. To do this you
will need to let the parts go that you don't
understand. Make notes of the passages
which really attract your attention. Read
without letting your assumptions and
feelings influence you, read objectively.
You are not a part of the writing and God
is NOT providing you with meaning in a
spiritual experience of some sort Reading
the Bible in literary context is where the
Spirit of God will meet you.

Fourth, Don't use religious influences
and commentaries to speed things up.
Instead limit your outside sources to
reference works which provide you the
information needed to span the time gap
of 1900 years or more.

Fifth, As you read, note all information
about the person writing and other
biblical writers he knew of as he wrote.
Also all information regarding time and
era nationally.

Sixth, develop the writer's position.
Attempt to take on the author's place at
the table when writing. Become familiar
with the difference in your world and his
world. Transform yourself back in time to
his day. Use extra biblical works to do this,

Seventh, don't worry if you can't seem to
keep your attention on a part of a book,
keep reading on. By reading on to the
next book, you will learn what you need to
understand the parts which were
senseless to you previously. The biblical
writers reviewed, and reemphasize
previously written about information, so
just rely on that fact.