The Bible Is The Only Legitimate Word of Yahuwah

Revelations 22:18
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 

The Bible was written over a span of 1500 years, by 40 writers.  Unlike other religious writings, the Bible reads like a factual news account of real events, places, people, and dialogue.  Historians and archaeologists have repeatedly confirmed its authenticity.  Using the writers' own writing styles and personalities, Yahuwah shows us who he is and what it's like to know him.

There is one central message consistently carried by all 40 writers of the Bible, Yahuwah, who created us all, desires a relationship with us.  He calls us to know him and trust him.  The Bible not only inspires us, it explains life and Yahuwah to us. It does not answer all the questions we might have, but enough of them.  It shows us how to live with purpose and compassion.  How to relate to others.  It encourages us to rely on Yahuwah for strength, direction, and enjoy his love for us. The Bible also tells us how we can have eternal life.  Multiple categories of evidence support the historical accuracy of the Bible as well as its claim to divine authorship. 

Archaeologists have consistently discovered the names of government officials, kings, cities, and festivals mentioned in the Bible, sometimes when historians didn't think such people or places existed.  For example, the Gospel of John tells of Yahuwah healing a cripple next to the Pool of Bethesda. The text even describes the five porticoes (walkways) leading to the pool.  Scholars didn't think the pool existed, until archaeologists found it forty feet below ground, complete with the five porticoes.  The Bible has a tremendous amount of historical detail, so not everything mentioned in it has yet been found through archaeology.  However, not one archaeological find has conflicted with what the Bible records

The Yahushua Ha’Mashiah spake by the angel, solemnly confirming the contents of this book, particularly of this last vision. He is the Lord Yahuwah faithful and true.  Also by his messengers, the holy angels showed them to holy men of Yahuwah.  They are things that must shortly be done, Yahushua Ha’Mashiah  will come quickly and put all things out of doubt.  And by the integrity of that angel who had been the apostle's interpreter.  He refused to accept religious worship from John and reproved him for offering it.  This presents another testimony against idolatrous worship of saints and angels. 

Yahuwah calls everyone to witness to the declarations here made.  This book, thus kept open, will have an effect upon men, the filthy and unjust will be more so, but it will confirm, strengthen, and further sanctify those who are upright with Yahuwah.  Never let us think that a dead or disobedient faith will save us, for the First and the Last has declared that those alone are blessed who do his commandments.  It is a book that shuts out from heaven all wicked and unrighteous persons, particularly those who love and make lies, therefore cannot itself be a lie.  There is no middle place or condition. 

Yahushua, who is the Spirit of prophecy, has given his congregation of faithful followers this morning-light of prophecy, to assure them of the light of the perfect day approaching.  All is confirmed by an open and general invitation to mankind, to come and partake freely of the promises and of the privileges of the gospel. 

The Spirit, by the sacred word, and by convictions and influence in the sinner's conscience, says, Come to Yahushua Ha’Mashiah for salvation and the bride, or the whole congregation of faithful followers, on earth and in heaven, says, Come and share our happiness.  Lest any should hesitate, it is added, Let whosoever will, or, is willing, come and take the water of life freely. 

May every one who hears or reads these words, desire at once to accept the gracious invitation.  All are condemned who should dare to corrupt or change the word of Yahuwah, either by adding to it or taking from it.  Therefore, faithful followers of Yahuwah should be careful of other books claiming to be of inspired origins thereafter, even more so during the time of the end.

When Yahushua Ha’Mashiah disciples asked Him what would herald His coming to rule all nations, He answered by first relaying a series of developments that would lead up to the grand climax of the present age, religious deception, wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes (Matthew 24:3-8; Mark 13:3-8; Luke 21:7-11). 

Yahushua said that these were just the “beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:8, emphasis added throughout) or, as the New International Version better renders this, the “beginning of birth pains.”  As birth pangs or labour contractions get stronger and closer together as delivery approaches so these trends would appear with increasing intensity and frequency as the end of the age approached.

Let’s take a closer look at the first of these trends religious deception.  Just what is the nature of this deception? Notice Yahushua's specific warning: “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Yahushua Ha’Mashiah and shall deceive many” (Matthew 24:4-5, King James Version).

Modern Bible versions often place quotation marks around “I am Christ,” the translators assuming that Yahushua was talking about people who would claim to actually be the Christ or Messiah themselves.  There have been such people, and Yahushua warned later in the same discourse of “false Christs” at the end of the age (Matthew 24:24).

Yet there clearly have not been, as verse 5 requires, “many” such individuals who have been taken seriously much less deceived the “many” in the two millennia since Yahushua said this.  And there certainly has not been a great increase in such individuals in recent centuries while there has been a marked increase in the other prophesied signs.

Some have proposed that Yahushua was referring to false “saviour” figures like the Roman emperors of New Testament times or Napoleon, Hitler, Mao and Saddam Hussein in the modern era.  But this is stretching the concept of “the Christ” or “the Messiah” far beyond what Yahushua’s disciples would have understood it to mean the prophesied anointed king of the line of David.

Indeed, notice again that Yahushua said, “Many shall come in my name “ His name is Yahushua.  Furthermore, they would come in His name, not with His name or bearing His name.  In other words, they would presume to represent Him not assume His identity.

So Christ is really more a title than it is a name, although the Bible uses it both ways. For example, the Bible often refers to Yahushua by name as “Jesus Christ,” just as we do in modern usage (see Matthew 1:1, 18; Mark 1:1; John 1:17; 17:3; Acts 3:6; Romans 3:24, etc.).  But it also speaks of Yahushua as “the Christ,” meaning “the anointed one,” the Messiah. When Yahushua asked His disciples who they thought He was, Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16).  

At Yahushua’s interrogation by the Jews just before His crucifixion, the high priest demanded, “Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of Yahuwah!”  (Matthew 26:63). And Luke records that on one occasion when Yahushua cast demons out of individuals, the demons cried out ‘You are the Christ, the Son of God!’ and He [Yahushua] rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ” (Luke 4:41).

So a clearer rendering of what Yahushua meant in Matthew 24:4-5 would be, “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many shall come claiming to represent Me, saying that I [Yahushua] am the Christ, yet shall deceive many.”  That is, they would proclaim Yahushua as the biblical Messiah and would claim to be His representatives but they actually would be part of a massive religious deception.

It is these false preachers and teachers claiming to be faithful followers of Yahushua who would proliferate and deceive ever more people genuinely seeking Yahuwah as the end of the age of the gentiles would be approaching.

The apostle Paul later affirmed, that within the so-called congregation of faithful followers of Yahushua, that “evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).  So not only do they deceive others.  These false teachers themselves are thoroughly deceived.  Just as blind men leading blind people, with the usual predictable end result, both being lead to destruction.  

One only has to observe the many religious organisations worldwide, of whom are quite clearly stinking from the head right down to the tail.  Their attendees having not taken the trouble to read and study the bible for themselves are scratching their heads in wonderment about the many unscriptural practises they witness but continue being deceived into false worship thereby utterly displeasing Yahuwah.  

It should be noted that ignorance can no longer be legitimately used as an excuse.  Because Yahuwah has made his word the Bible available to all who care to seek him out and not be deceived by wicked servants of darkness [Satan] masquerading as servants of light [Yahuwah].

In His famous Sermon on the Mount, Yahushua issued the following warning regarding false prophets or preachers: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves” (Matthew 7:15). Jesus is the great Shepherd, His followers are portrayed as sheep. Yet these false prophets only appear to be Yahushua’s followers. Their true nature is one of devouring the lives of the unsuspecting, as a wolf among the flock.

Paul would later warn of this as well.  He told the leaders of the church in Ephesus, “For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.  Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves” (Acts 20:29-30).

Yet such imposters would be identifiable.  Yahushua explained: “You will know them by their fruits.  Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?  Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit” (Matthew 7:16-17). By “fruits,” Yahushua is referring metaphorically to visible results or outcomes.

He then gives us an example of something to look for in our evaluation: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’ [merely acknowledging Him as Lord], shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Then notice: “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied [preached or taught] in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’” (Matthew 7:22).

Again, as in Matthew 24, we see such preachers coming in Yahushua’s name having done various works in His name. But their lives are not lives conformed to the will of God.  Yahushua concludes, “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:23).

Practicing lawlessness means living as if Yahuwah’s law is done away or of no consequence. Notice that these individuals are deceived about their own spiritual state.  They think they have a special relationship with Yahushua, but He ends up telling them they are gravely mistaken.  In reality, He doesn’t know them at all.

Why?  Because they don’t honour Yahuwah by obeying His law.   As the apostle, John would later explain, “Now by this, we know that we know Him if we keep His commandments.  He who says, ‘I know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him” (1 John 2:3-4).

Yahushua is telling these false prophets that He doesn’t know them and they don’t know Him. For if they knew Him, they would understand what He required, obedience to Yahuwah’s law.  As Yahushua stated in Matthew 19:17, “If you want to enter into [eternal] life, keep the commandments. “

Earlier in the Sermon on the Mount, Yahushua said, “Whoever, breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called the least [by those] in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19).

Notice that Yahushua speaks here of those who would disobey Yahuwah and those who would teach others to disobey Him.  So it’s not only a matter of practising lawlessness but also of teaching it, whether through word or example.

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