Biblical Understanding
Progressive Revelation Read In Literary Context
Reading God's Word Using God's    
      Method of Comprehension
The Holy Spirit Leads Using Written Revelation Read And Understood In Literary Context, All Other Methods Are Not of God  
Why We Read The Bible
The first two books of the Bible provide illustrations of, "Why Read?"

In the writing of Job we read where he acted responsibly, using the revelation provided
by God. Job handled his sin according to the revelation of God passed down to him from
the time of Noah. This written revelation provided a method which educated him
regarding God's way of righteousness. Confessing his sin to God, providing the
demonstration and testimony of this truth by openly doing the decreed instructional work
of judgmental sacrificial offerings unto Jehovah.

Abram also had access to the writing of Job and believed in the Jehovah God of Job, and
therefore followed Job's testimony and separated himself from his own people and nation
opting instead to wait on God as Job did.

Both of these men desired to know Jehovah God in the same manner as a citizen
knows his King; a loyal subject of the king and his governmental rule. There was NOT a
"Personal Relationship" as the basis for reading the revelation of God, but rather the
desire to understand the judgment of God as provided in the official decree of Jehovah
God. This process started with Noah and was passed on eventually to Job, then Abram,
his descendants, and finally Moses.

The writer of Job, and Moses both presented their writings in the context of knowing
Jehovah God starting with the admission of not knowing God God's way, therefore being
guilty of treason, which produced sorrow and remorse leading to repentance from their
standard philosophy and theology. They both clearly performed a unique act of following
an exact order of offering an animal as a replacement of themselves, proclaiming a total
guilt and confession to a King whom they had not known personally, nor could know
personally. This was the sin which vexed them, and therefore they sacrificed the animal
in the decreed manner.

It was in this act of judgment that they waited on God, waiting on a nation and throne
which Jehovah God would establish on earth, which the earth's present kingdoms could
not understand nor achieve in the least.

These men read the writings passed to them, and as a result were also used to write and
become the beginning of a process which would eventually provided a record or
Jehovah's revelation in a physical man-made writing, preserved by Jehovah God for all
time, no matter which languages it was translated into.

TODAY, people read the Bible to gain a personal understanding of God. Religions have
proclaimed the Bible as a supernatural source which God uses in the heart of the
readers to cause a personal relationship as each readers views it from their own
perspective. This is the appeal religions have framed the Bible in. This is a powerful
concept; to have the creator God personally involved in a personal life right where they
are today, no matter what that persons situation in life is. To be able to read the Bible
and during the reading having God there supernaturally in your heart leading you with
your natural feelings, which then in turn you use to form your thought process which all
your actions will be based on.

The end result with this method of reading God's Word is, Bible readers form their own
set of truths to have faith in; according to their place of understanding in life they attach
meanings to the words of the Bible which serves their own purposes. To achieve this
they ignore the total writing of the biblical writer and only use parts of verses, always
searching for other parts of verses to build their self-serving version of godliness, and in
the end, thank God for it.

I will admit, any person who believes a God exists, wants to be able to have access to
God directly. For one reason or another each person desires to hear God where they
are at in their lives. By the same token, they want God to be able to hear them where
they are at in their lives as well. It is this fact which is at the base of each persons efforts
to read the Bible. This is the main reason to read the Bible.
If the Bible is in fact a collection of writings from people God caused to write way back in
human history, and the Spirit of God is said by religions to be present with a Bible reader
as he reads enabling understanding, Then the result will be each reader will gain a direct
personal relationship with their Creator God.

So, thus the appeal to open the book called the "Bible" and read.

The problem with this method is, no where in the Bible is this presented as the method
by which a person interacts with God, God's way. This is instead the same method Job
"Turned From", Abram rejected opting to wait instead, and Moses judged when he
provided the book of Genesis to cause God's people to be separated from Egypt in
preparation for Judgment. (continue to next column)
The name, "Job" means, "To Turn"
from ones own natural feelings and
thinkings concerning a Creator King
named Jehovah, and instead abide by
only what was physically written until
the King arrives on earth to establish
His Kingdom and rule of order.

Abram also understood this when he
relied on the truth of the writing of Job,
and acted in accordance with Job's
truths.
Neither men had a personal
relationship with God and when they
took it upon themselves to believe
revelation already provided in a
writing, the judgment of God arrived
resulting in their restoration. This
started with a "Turning from"
themselves, and instead abiding in the
limited information of God's written
revelation, which they had access to
the entire time.

It was this very same truth which
Moses was called by God to
demonstrate to God's called out
people, Israel, and to their self
imposed god nation, Egypt with
Pharaoh the self imposed saviour god.

Jehovah God was not personally
known by anyone, nor could anyone
know God personally because of sin.

The only option a person had was to
read the written revelation of Job and
Genesis in their literary context. Which
clearly excluded their personal lives,
and prepared God's way for judgment.
Or reject and be judged as totally
separated from God, instead of being
totally separated unto God; waiting on
God and demonstrating this by acting
in accordance with the written
revelation already in existence.
Moses provided the information in
Genesis, when he wrote about the
personal desire of wanting to be
personally on the same level as the
Creator; by using heart felt feelings
well intentioned as Eve and Adam
desired to have; who together
embraced and created the act of
accepting evil instead of God's limited
revelation and abiding in this provision

Both Job and Moses' primary message
was the same one. Hearers of the word
act in accordance with what was written
without allow their own input or ideas
or feelings to participate in the process.

God did not have His writers pen His
revelation with the idea that, "You" the
reader should help or assist or have a
part in the formation of meaning, or
determining the meaning of His truths.

The writer didn't have this
responsibility and neither do you.
God gave truth in a time and place.