We are living in the time of the fulfillment of the book of Revelation, which represents the new covenant/promise from God. Our focus should be on understanding how Revelation has been fulfilled, not speculation. Keeping the new covenant means believing in what God has fulfilled, just as people struggled to believe in Jesus as the fulfillment at his first coming. Many in the past failed to discern the times and only looked backwards instead of believing what God was doing in their present time. Satan tries to prevent faith by tactics like spreading doubt, distracting with worldly matters, performing counterfeit miracles, and promoting false teachings that “tickle itching ears.” We must be the ones who keep the true prophecy of Revelation by hearing and taking it to heart, without adding to or subtracting from it. Discerning good from evil requires understanding Satan’s tactics to interfere with faith so we can avoid deception. The main thrust is being able to recognize and believe in how God’s promises in Revelation have already been fulfilled according to his plan, not human expectations. This requires discernment of the present times.

 

Study Guide SCJ Bible Study

Special Lesson: Faith and Knowledge in the New Covenant

We’ll be discussing in more detail what the new covenant represents and what it entails, as well as what’s important for us to understand about it.

We’ll also comprehend what it is not and how we can discern what we need during this era where things are certainly taking place. So, special faith and knowledge in the new covenant are essential.

Our hope is to have the correct faith and knowledge according to our time. The key is maintaining the correct faith and knowledge in accordance with our era and keeping the new covenant. So, what does it mean to keep the new covenant? We’ll be exploring that today.

Main Reference

Can I have someone who has or is using currently the King James version, can you read for us verse 20 once more?

Ah, did you catch it? 

This is something we went over at the very beginning of the class. And of course, we’ve repeated it, but testament and covenant mean the same thing. 

Testament is just an old English word for covenant. That’s why it says testament in the King James version because it was made approximately 500 years ago when it was written. So the new covenant is the same as the new testament.

So, what does a covenant mean? What is a covenant?

A one-word explanation for covenant is promise.

If you keep the covenant, you will receive this. If you do not keep the covenant, you will receive that. Very simple, but it is a promise.

And every covenant, especially God’s covenant, is comprised of two aspects.

It is comprised of the law and comprised of prophecy.

And this is general. The law contains things that people are supposed to do daily, activities that they’re supposed to perform every day.

A really clear example is the old covenant that Moses, which was called the first covenant or just the covenant at their time, gave to the Israelites when they had the 10 stone tablets and the remainder of the law, which actually contained several hundred things that they needed to do. That’s what they were supposed to keep daily. But the most important part is actually the prophecy.

And the prophecy can only be kept at a proper time, meaning that it cannot be kept all the time. But when things take place, then people are intended or supposed to keep that part of the covenant as well. And it’s so important that if someone breaks the prophecy part of the covenant, they’ve broken the whole thing.

That’s how important the prophecy part of it is. Let me give you an example from the time of Moses.

If you lived at this time, this is what you were expected to do: follow the Mosaic law and be held accountable for it. But after approximately 1500 years of this, this became everyone’s only standard. So when Jesus appeared and told them the new things that they were supposed to do, all they said was, “We keep the law of Moses, and you’re now telling us to do new things.”

And they refused to believe in Jesus, hence breaking the most important part of the covenant that God had set for them. Because remember, Deuteronomy 18:18-20 details that God promises to send a prophet.

And that prophet will come from among you. And you are to believe in his words that I put in his mouth. And if you do not do this, I will hold you to account.

This being in the book of Deuteronomy means it was part of the original law. So God expected them to keep this too. But this part, after of course breaking the law part many times, they definitely finished breaking the covenant by not following Jesus when he appeared.

This is the reason why a new covenant or a new testament was required for God’s people. It is very important for us to understand the content of the covenant that God is giving us. And that covenant represents the promises of the New Testament, also known as the book of Revelation.

If we look back at Luke 22, there are two important verses to keep in mind. The first verse to keep in mind is verse 16. Luke 22:16 says, “For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”

Class, where is the fulfillment of the kingdom of God coming from? It is detailed in the book of Revelation.

So, if we want to fully keep the new covenant that Jesus set up 2,000 years ago, this is the prophecy part that we need to pay attention to, as it concludes our covenant with God and Jesus. Are we understanding? Jesus gave us many moral teachings at the time of his first coming.

“Treat others how you want to be treated. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” These are the same things said in different ways.

“Do not judge, or you will be judged. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the hungry. Blessed are those who are persecuted. Knock, and the door will be opened. Seek, and you will find.”

These are the things that Jesus gave us to do to be good, moral, upstanding Christians. We are supposed to follow these every day. But most people stopped there.

And it was only really possible to keep the law apart because we had no idea about the prophecy part. And God knew that. But when things start to take place, then the prophecy part comes into play.

And God and Jesus are going to expect us to hear the testimony about it and follow, just like Jesus expected those to believe and follow him 2,000 years ago. So the new covenant is the book of Revelation because there are aspects of what Jesus promised that do not come to fulfillment until the book of Revelation starts to happen or takes place.

1. How to keep the Covenant?

In every contract, there are always two parties involved. There is the one who establishes the covenant, and there is the one who agrees to it. Of course, in the Bible, the one who establishes all the covenants is God. How does God keep his part of the covenant?

1. God fulfills his promises.

What is God’s track record of fulfilling his promises? It is 100%. God has never broken any promises that he has made. It would be unlike him to do something like that. He never breaks his promises. He always fulfills what he promises.

This is God speaking, “Surely as I have planned, so it will be.” Surely as God has purposed, so it will stand. Whatever God promises, whatever He plans, whatever He purposes, it is going to happen. It’s a surety.

So then, what does God expect us to do when God always keeps His part of the covenant? What does He expect us to do? Believe in what He has planned and guess what? Believe in what He has fulfilled.

This is what God expects us to do. It seems simple, but it’s much harder to accomplish than people expect. This is why many people fall into the trap of only looking backwards and not looking at the current time that we are in. 

People believe in what God had done in the past that was clearly explained and clearly proven, even hundreds or thousands of years ago. During the time of Jesus, people were not complaining or debating whether the law came from God, whether Moses established that law, or whether Moses had the stone tablets.

Those things were obvious at the time of the first coming. They were a matter of course. They weren’t arguing about what had already happened in the past. They might disagree about some things that were being said, like what does this verse mean? But whether those events happened or not, whether Moses spent time with God, those things were not up for debate. Do you understand?

However, when Jesus came and said, “I am the son of God, eat my flesh and drink my blood,” then they were like, “What is this guy talking about? Not like Moses.”

So, to keep the covenant, we must believe in what God has fulfilled.

This is an important passage. I feel like it beautifully summarizes the entire Bible.

“I have told you now before it happens.” All right.

Telling before is another way of saying prophecy. “I have told you now,” meaning, or “I’ve told you before,” so that when it happens, another way of saying “when it happens” is fulfillment, right? “I’ve told you now,” or “I’ve told you before,” so that when it happens, you will believe.

Our job is to believe in what has taken place. But has what has taken place been spoken in clear language that anyone and everyone can understand just by reading it? No, it was spoken in parables.

The problem is not that people don’t have a heart to believe. The problem is their heart is unable to hear the explanations of what has happened, partly because they fall in love with what they always thought would be. And they’re unwilling to accept how it actually was because they misunderstand the prophecies and the parables that were spoken in prophecy. We need to understand that it’s understanding through the parables that helps us understand what has happened when it happens and believe in it. This is very important.

So, to keep the covenant, we must believe in what God has fulfilled in the way that God fulfills it, not the way we thought it would be.

2. God’s People and “Faith”

We put the word ‘faith’ in quotes because it’s crucial to grasp the distinction between the faith they professed and the true faith that is genuinely required. These two concepts of faith are frequently not aligned or the same.

1. Old Testament 

So the first example we’ll look at are those who struggled during the time of the Old Testament.

So, what are we seeing here? The writer of Hebrews is using the example and warning of the people at the time of Moses who were unable to enter the promised land due to their unbelief. He talked about a few reasons why they struggled and were unable to enter the land of Canaan.

Let’s look at why the Israelites were unable to enter the rest, also known as the land of Canaan. Why were they unable to do so? Because of their unbelief. Why did they have unbelief? They doubted God.

They certainly doubted God, but doubt comes from something. Doubt is actually the absence of something. They didn’t understand. Their lack of understanding led to a lack of faith.

Verse 2 says, “For we also have had the gospel preached to us just as they did.” (Hebrews 4:2) But the message they heard had no value to them because they could not combine the knowledge they had with faith. Knowledge minus faith equals no belief. They too had the gospel preached to them.

Did you catch that? The gospel is not just what happened 2,000 years ago. There were, in fact, many gospels in the Bible over the centuries and millennia that the Bible covers. The gospel simply means God has done what He said He would do. That’s the good news that people needed to hear. God has done what He said He would do.

If you want an excellent example of what the gospel means, please read Acts chapter 13, the whole chapter, and you’ll see how the gospel should be preached in every era. God promised this to our ancestors. God fulfilled it like He promised in our time. Now we need to believe. That’s what the gospel is, if you boil it down to the most fundamental aspects. So, the Israelites had the gospel preached to them.

What was their gospel? What was the gospel of the people at the time of the Old Testament? The promise that was first spoken to their forefather, Abraham, was now being fulfilled in their time. But they did not believe it, or they could not believe it. Part of the reason why they could not believe was because of bad reports. Oftentimes, we hear lots of negative things from the world, and it causes us to doubt what God is doing.

Is God really here at this time? Is He at this location? It causes us to doubt. And the smallest bit of doubt can destroy strong faith. This is the reason why God said to Adam and Eve, “Don’t even touch, don’t even eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because when you do, you will begin to doubt me.” All the serpent had to do was lay a little bit of doubt, and then they ate.

That’s all he had to do. “Are you sure that’s what God said?“ Faith destroyed, because now they’re second-guessing themselves. “Wait a minute. Is God hiding things from us? Does God not want us to be like Him? To know good and evil?” That’s all Satan had to do. Then they ate from the fruit, and they were destroyed.

So, what we need to be doing is protecting ourselves from things that will cause us doubt in what God has promised and what God has fulfilled. So, what was the thing that caused them doubt at that time? Those many things, of course, but these (bad reports) especially.

Let’s go to the book of Numbers, and let’s see a concrete example so that we can relate it to ourselves, too. Not just, “Oh, those guys were foolish back then.” If that’s your thought process, you’re not self-reflecting, and you’re actually in trouble. We have to self-reflect, every single person here, including myself.

When the Israelites received bad news about the people living in the land God had promised them, they began to doubt God’s promise.

God had already instructed them, “Go into the land. I have given it to you.” This is the essence of Hebrews 11:1-6, which states that without faith, it is impossible to please God, for God had already promised them that land.

If they had charged in, God would have been with them, enabling them to conquer the powerful inhabitants. However, because they heard a bad report, they rejected the positive assessments of Joshua and Caleb.

Joshua and Caleb were the two spies who decided to believe. They said, “Hey, we can do this. God promised us these things.” They focused on the positive aspects of the land, recognizing its abundance, just as God had promised. “Let’s go take it,” they urged. But the other ten spies warned, “The people there are powerful. We will be destroyed.” And the people began to grumble and complain against God.

In our time, when we witness the fulfillment of Revelation’s prophecies, what might be considered “bad reports” that could spread doubt? Some might say, “That’s not really what happened. Those people don’t know what they’re talking about.” Others might claim, “The events of Revelation took place 2,000 years ago when a certain location was destroyed. There’s nothing more to expect.”

People might start hearing various interpretations and begin to doubt, questioning, “Is this really what God has intended? Is this what God has promised?” They might say, “I’ve been seeing the word explained, but now I’m doubting.” That’s all it takes – a little bit of doubt – for Satan to destroy months of faith.

We must be cautious about what we allow to influence us, for God has spoken these things. This is the reason why the Israelites were unable to combine their knowledge of God’s promise with faith.

Let’s consider another example from the time of the first coming, exploring why people struggled to believe in the one who had been sent in their era, and what God decided to do instead.

2. The First Coming

Jesus came to those who had the original covenant. He came to them first. In fact, as stated in Matthew 15:24, Jesus said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” However, the lost sheep of Israel rejected him and did not accept his words.

So God and Jesus decided, “Let’s go to everyone else who chooses to believe, and we’ll establish a new covenant with them.” The Israelites did not believe in Jesus as the fulfillment of the promises given to him. But what do you think Jesus was doing as he was preaching?

He wasn’t just preaching to be a good person. That was the basics, where he started. But then he began to explain the reasons behind these teachings, saying, “Here’s why we should do these things. Because I am this. I am this.”

Jesus testified that certain events happened because they were written as prophecies. His testimony was, “This happened because it was written.”

Everything must be fulfilled, as was promised in the writings of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms. 

This is what Jesus conveyed to the people of that era. They believed that merely reading the Old Testament and keeping its laws was sufficient.

However, Jesus had to explain to them that the very things they were reading about were standing right before them. In essence, he was saying, “Behold, the fulfillment of the law is here.”

Jesus himself embodied this message. That is what he was conveying to those people.

Jesus said, “These are the very scriptures that testify about me. I am the reality of the words you have been reading all these generations, but you refuse to come to me to have life.” So that’s what Jesus said about the people at the time of his first coming. But what about the time of the second coming?

Does Jesus think everyone will have the faith they need at the second coming? Or is he also a little bit worried about our time too? What do you think? If people struggled with something in the past, they can certainly struggle with it again.

And we know that Satan’s tactics ultimately do not change. His tactics have been the same for the last 6,000 years: cause doubt, and then once someone doubts, destroy them. The same strategy the whole time. And Jesus knows this. He knows that the things that need to happen at the second coming are even grander than the things that happened at the first coming.

But don’t just take my word for it. Let’s read together.

When the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth? But instructor, there are over 2 billion Christians today, or 2 billion people who call Jesus their Lord and Savior. That’s a significant number of people, right? Approximately a quarter of the entire planet’s population. What does Jesus mean by asking, “Will he find faith?”

Plenty of people believe in his existence. Is that what Jesus is concerned about? That people will merely believe that he existed at some point and that he is the Son of God? There must be something specific that Jesus is worried he would not find people having faith in, during their time. So, let’s examine those things now. What is Jesus worried that people will lack faith in, in their era?

3. The Second Coming

Revelation 1:3 highlights two important groups of people: those who read and those who keep. We need to be both, but understanding this verse is crucial. Reading the Bible alone is not enough to comprehend its meaning.

True reading involves deep contemplation and understanding. Have you ever tried studying for something in school, only to read a paragraph repeatedly without retaining any information? This frustrating experience illustrates that reading alone is insufficient.

The verse’s true meaning is that one who understands is blessed. Understanding does not come from self-study but from fulfillment and testimony. When revelation is fulfilled, it becomes possible to understand it.

If someone claims to understand Revelation but lacks a detailed explanation of how it has already taken place, we should not heed their words. The verse clearly states, “Blessed is the one who reads,” meaning understands, “and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.”

First, we must hear, and then we must take it to heart, reminiscent of the principle that faith comes by hearing and hearing through the word about Christ. Hearing is always the first step, and we must retain what we hear, as stated in Luke 8:15: “But the good soul is those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain the word, and persevere so that they can produce a crop.”

The logic remains consistent and unchanging. The opposite of Revelation 1:3 is found in Revelation 22:18-19, which we should avoid.

A warning from the apostle John is critically important, and we’ll revisit it countless times as we continue to study and get closer to examining the book of Revelation in more detail. What did John say that we should not do? He mentioned two things that we should avoid.

ONE – Do not add and do not subtract from the book of Revelation. Adding not only means creating something like Revelation chapter 23, but it also implies making assumptions about how events might unfold, such as “This is how I think it will happen,” or “It may be like this,” or “It may be like that.” When people do that, they may find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time when things do not happen as they expected.

Or they may take actions that impede the fulfillment of Revelation, working against God instead of with Him. This is similar to how Paul and the Pharisees persecuted the church until God showed them what they actually needed to be doing. As Paul testified for the rest of his life, “This is correct. I persecuted these people for so long, and I actually slowed down God’s work until God and Jesus showed me grace and showed me that I was in the wrong, and I changed.”

TWO – Subtracting means never reading the book of Revelation due to fear or ignoring it altogether. There are even stories of people ripping the book out of their own Bibles because it was so confusing that they didn’t want to see it. That’s the ultimate form of subtraction.

We should not be those who add or subtract. Instead, we need to understand Revelation correctly, based on how it has been fulfilled, just like the standard for understanding the first coming of Christ.

This is the reason why we take tests, perform home blessings, and review. We don’t want to add our own thoughts or take away from the text because we don’t understand, as this is what Satan wants us to do. We’re going to understand and talk about this in the last part of the class today.

3. Discerningf Good vs. Evil

Discerning or distinguishing good from evil requires understanding how Satan interferes with faith. We must be aware of the tactics employed by Satan today, so that we can avoid being deceived and maintain the ability to discern correctly.

Satan utilizes numerous tactics to impede or slow down our faith. By keeping these tactics in mind, we will never be deceived, and we will be able to discern correctly.

Tactic ONE

Paul is warning us not to treat prophecies with contempt. What does this mean?

Contempt is another way of saying hatred, disdain, or ignoring. Many people look at the prophecies of Revelation and say, “I don’t want to read those. I don’t like them. They scare me.” They treat the prophecy with contempt. However, Revelation is actually a joyous book. It’s a book of hope, a book we should celebrate when it is fulfilled, not one that should bring us dread or fear.

The dread or fear comes from a lack of understanding. Satan wants us to avoid the book of Revelation so that we remain ignorant of it and never explore it. He wants us to be ignorant. That’s his tactic, tactic number one: forced ignorance.

Tactic TWO

What did Paul say? While they are preaching peace and safety, what will happen to those who are saying or preaching peace and safety? Destruction. If you have people saying, “We’re good. We are okay. We are in the right. Everything is fine. Peace and safety. Just continue to send in your tithe, and you will be fine. Just continue to do this, and you will be okay. Make the checkout too, right? Peace and safety. Everything is okay. Nothing has happened yet. No need to worry. Look at this news channel or that news channel. Vote for this person or that person, right?”

They’re not talking about what is being fulfilled. They’re just tickling people’s ears. So no one is expecting the things that must take place, that must happen. They’re asleep, which is what Paul continues to talk about in the rest of 1 Thessalonians 5. That we need to be children of the day who are not surprised by what God and Jesus are doing but are expecting those things.

One thing you’ll come to understand as you’re studying the open word is nobody is safe until things are fully complete, until things are fully fulfilled. Satan can grab you at any time. Satan can grab me at any time. So even I need to be on guard at all times because Satan will use anything to drag us down.

Peter and the disciples were with Jesus for years, and Satan still tripped them up over time, right? He tripped up Peter many times, right? “Peter, you will disown me three times before the rooster crows.” And Peter had been with Jesus for years.

Judas, “Hey, maybe go ask for money to betray Jesus from the Pharisees. I think that’s a good strategy. I know you have a weakness for money. Right? You take from the money bag. Don’t think I didn’t notice. Yeah, just go. Just go get some more money. Go set yourself up real nice. This is the most wanted person in all of Israel. If you turn him in, you’ll have a decent payout.” Satan was prompting him. And so Judas carried out that prompting and betrayed Jesus, the Son of God, who they had all been waiting for, who he had been following for three and a half years.

Nobody is safe. Everybody is a target. Stay diligent.

Tactic THREE

Satan likes to distract us with physical matters. He enjoys using things like family, even though we have heard that overcoming such distractions is wonderful. Our health is another area he exploits.

Finances are a tool he loves to employ. Jobs and work are means he utilizes to pull us away from our path. He will use anything at his disposal. He does not play by the rules.

Everything is fair game for him to use as a distraction. Do not be surprised by these tactics. Expect them and overcome them.

Do not be so easily defeated by worldly matters. Continue steadfastly on the way you are currently going. Stay strong.

All right. The last two points I want us to keep in mind are really profound.

Tactic FOUR

Did you catch what Paul said here? What did he say in verse 9?

I’m going to say this very seriously. Miracles, signs, and wonders do not necessarily mean God is at work. Miracles, signs, and wonders do not inherently mean God is working.

This is one of the easiest ways to deceive Christians today, who aren’t looking for the word, but looking for physical signs, and so can be pulled in many different directions by those who seem like God is working and God is powerful. However, they forget that just because Satan was cast away from heaven does not mean he became powerless. Satan was once an archangel. It does not mean he became powerless.

He too can perform miracles, signs, and wonders. Remember the story of Egypt? The Egyptian sorcerers were able to do some things too. Not everything God could do, of course. They could not match God fully, but it doesn’t mean they couldn’t perform certain acts.

And there are many around the world who are only looking for these things. But if you think about it, didn’t Jesus say, “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks for a miraculous sign?” Didn’t he say that?

Didn’t Jesus often only perform miracles so that people could then focus on what he was actually going to say? He fed the 5,000 so that they could have some food to satisfy them, enabling them to continue listening to him because if they became too hungry, they would have to go seek food, and then they wouldn’t be able to hear Jesus’ words. So, in order for them to continue listening, he fed them.

But when he left, they were seeking him just to continue receiving free food. Jesus said, “You’ve come here because you’re looking for more food. But this isn’t what you need. What you really need is this, my words. Eat my flesh and drink my blood, huh? That’s the real food that you need, the real bread from heaven, not the miracle that I performed. The miracle I performed was just to get your attention. But if you’re only looking for signs, you aren’t actually looking for the word, and you’ll never believe in what is actually happening.”

In Deuteronomy 29:2-4, we’ve read this a few times, but I’ll summarize. It says, “You too saw the things that God did. You saw the fact that God sent the 10 plagues, including the angel of death. You saw how when you put the blood on your door frames, the angel of death passed over your house, and you still have your firstborn. You saw Moses split the Red Sea, and you nearly escaped Egypt, who was chasing you. You saw that God sent manna from heaven to feed you when you were hungry, and he was a cloud by day and a fire by night. You saw God’s spirit descend on the tabernacle that Moses built over and over again. You even saw the quail that God gave you when you complained of not having meat.” Yet these very same people that saw all of these miraculous things still grumbled and complained against God when they got to the promised land.

Same people, not different people, the same. So keep these things in mind, everyone. Miracles, signs, and wonders are not enough. The word is enough. The word is the most important thing. So if you have people in your life that are only looking for signs and wonders, “God, show me a sign. Should I do this or should I do that?” Okay, the wind is kind of blowing this way. Oh, a book fell off the shelf, right?

I did this too, everyone. I’m not being critical. Me too, before I came to the open word. I was always looking for signs around me. “Okay, God, how do you want me to do this?” But is that the way God really wants people to come together? How fickle is that? How often would God say, “I sent you many signs. You just didn’t realize they were signs.”

That’s the least effective way for God to get people to do what they need to do. The better way is to understand the word. Then we all know what to do.

Tactic FIVE

There are some key things to take away from here. First of all, I do not want you to think that these people fit this verse. Right? We should not be doing that. I’m sure many thoughts popped into our heads as we were reading this verse. 

Stop. Stop that, guys. Don’t do that.

Why? First, we need to check on who? Yours truly. I need to look at myself first. However, what was said here was important. The time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine, but instead, they will suit their own desires. 

They will gather around themselves a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. Similar to “peace and safety,” as we saw in 1 Thessalonians 5. And what Satan likes to do is make us believe that we have the truth before the truth has been fulfilled.

This is the biggest trap. Here’s why this is a big trap. Remember what Jesus promised in John 9:1-4? Jesus said, “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

But he also promised that night is coming. Did night come as Jesus promised? What do we know happened to Jesus at the end of his ministry? He was crucified. But after he was crucified and resurrected, he ascended back to heaven. So then, what fell when Jesus ascended back to heaven? Night.

And a majority of Christian doctrine was formed and confirmed during this time of night. This is why no one agrees with themselves. This is why there are 30,000 different denominations.

Have you seen a stadium as big as 30,000 before or been in a stadium with at least 30,000 people? Imagine a small soccer stadium with 30,000 people in it, each one of those people representing a different doctrine. And they all disagree with each other. Why? Is that the work of God? Or the work of confusion that Jesus knew would come, that Jesus told us would come. He warned us about this.

Another way of seeing this is to remember the fields in Matthew 13. Jesus said, “I sowed good seed in my field. But at night, who came and sowed weeds? The enemy came and sowed weeds in the same field, not a different field. In the same field.”

So now, wheat and weeds are growing together in the same field. Jesus already warned us about this. And what did he say? “Let both grow up together in that field. And at the time of harvest, then they will be separated. And you will take the wheat and bring it into my barn, but the weeds will be burned.”

What is God’s seed that Jesus sowed? The words of truth. What are the weeds that Satan sowed? Lies. Man’s teachings and thoughts. Both growing up in the same field, not for a few hundred years, but 2,000 years.

So why are we holding up what was formed in a time of night with high regard? It is better to wait for the light to come. Well, Instructor, you said some heavy things today. That’s why we have Q&A. Please come to Q&A. All right.

So, some things to keep in mind.

Memorization

Let’s Us Discern