We hear about the proliferation of knowledge, which is a byproduct of the technological age in which we live, but no one ever considered that the knowledge explosion would also apply to the Bible and its mysteries and secrets would be revealed as never before.
Matthew 24:14 and Mark
13:10 tells us that the gospel will be preached to all nations and then the end
will come. This is also helped along through technology. Daniel 12:4 predicts
the increase in knowledge of the end times, but no one ever thought it also
applied to knowledge of the contents and mysteries of the Bible.
With the exponential strides
in technology also comes the ability to understand the Bible as never before
and seek out its deepest secrets.
You
ask how does the technological age help reveal this Bible knowledge?
In the age of Martin
Luther, he had to read the Bible word for word to come up with his 95 thesis. He
had to understand Greek and Hebrew and learn these languages. Luther translated the Bible into German with
the New Testament published in 1522 and the Old Testament and Apocrypha in
1534. It took him 12 years to translate the
Old Testament with the help of a committee. It is reported
that Luther translated the New Testament on his own in 11 weeks, for the
translation of the Old Testament he had had to have a group of individuals to help
him accomplish the task. Today the Bible can go from one translation to the
next with a click of a mouse.
Study tools such as a
Bible Dictionary: the first one was available in 1612 and these were followed
by other Bible dictionaries printed in the 17 and 1800’s, which built upon
earlier works. Strong’s Concordance an invaluable Bible study tool was
published in 1890 and most likely with a committee of Bible Scholars working on
the project as when he worked on the committees for the American Standard published
in 1901 and other notable Bible works. For years Bible Scholars would use Strong’s
Concordance, which allowed them to look up the original Hebrew or Greek word used
in the Bible.
In the 1900’s a
Concordance and Bible Dictionary were important tools in any scholar’s library along
with the works by noted theologians. If a scholar were doing a study in
Scripture the scholar would consult these sources and it was a manual process. With
these tools now published the access to Bible mysteries and its deeper meanings
began to accelerate, but nothing like what happened with the advent of the
Internet and the information age.
Today’s Bible Scholar has
an online concordance and can do a word study at the click of a mouse and have
all of the information in front of him or her and all of the related passages. Terms in a Bible Dictionary and maps are
online and also available with the click of a mouse. In addition, new information is coming online
all of the time of archaeological discoveries and the works of historians, which
also adds to understanding the mysterious passages in Scripture.
In addition, when relating to a Biblical
teaching, at one time if you were looking up a Bible verse that you knew connected
to what you were researching you would have to search the Bible to look it up
to get the quote and now all you have to do is type in the few words into a
search engine that you remember and the verse pops up. If you are studying a topic you can find
what is written on the topic by other theologians and scholars with the click
of a mouse and another online search.
This allows a Bible scholar
to uncover Biblical mysteries that have not yet been figured out and solve
them.
Why
is God giving us this knowledge in the end times concerning His Word?
So will the Gospel to the four corners of the
world so that there is no excuse for those living at the time to not turn to
the God of the Bible. It is God’s grace
to give man a chance to repent and bring him or her to the saving knowledge of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
As we get closer to the
end, the Bible’s deepest mysteries will be revealed.
So will the Gospel to the four corners of the
world so that there is no excuse for those living at the time to not turn to
the God of the Bible. It is God’s grace
to give man a chance to repent and bring him or her to the saving knowledge of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
We as Christians living
in these end times have a great responsibility to study the Word of God, with
the ease of study that is now available there is no excuse. 2 Timothy 2:5 tells
us to study the word of God to show thy selves approved. Martin Luther started the reformation and
Christians were murdered, Wycliffe who translated the first Bible into English
paid with his life, not only was he placed in a dark dungeon for a year in
solitary confinement, but afterword’s died being burned at the stake. Men and woman paid a price so that we can
have the information that is now so readily available to us and in some cases
they gave their lives.
We live in a unique
period of religious freedom and the dissemination of knowledge. But the Bible
also tells us that to whom much is given, much is required. Some Christian teachers do not put in the
time. I see it all of the time in relaying Bible Prophecy news, men and women relay
inferior material without going behind the scenes or putting in the effort for
solid research, which in the information age is available to all, but you have
to put in the time and research.
We are in the end times, we are in an age when not only are the mysteries of the Bible there to discover and are being revealed, but also in an age that we are not under persecution and have freedom of the press so that we can get that information out.
I have actually
chronicled my list of discoveries in an article that you can check out in the
link below for any of you who are interested and I am making new discoveries
all of the time and they are revealed in my books and articles, so you will
want to visit my website and look over my books for the areas of Bible Prophecy
that interest you for the information.
My discoveries are listed in
this article.
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