A Scriptural Renaissance

By Rudolph Solis

"A Scriptural Renaissance is not your regular run-of-the-mill Bible-basher" In fact, this book challenges all those who think that they are familiar with the Holy Bible to take a new look and see what Religion has done to undermine Almighty God's original purpose in providing Man with His Manual for Life!"

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781449706937

Rudolph Solis

1. After having been born again away back in 1967, I developed an insatiable hunger for the Scriptures; which led me to a serious questioning of those things which I had been taught from childhood in the Roman Catholic Church. This questioning, which yielded no satisfactory answers to me, led me into a deeper and more intense study of the Scriptures and a firm decision to pursue theological studies at the first possible opportunity. Ordained as a Pastor in 1976, my opportunity to formally study the Bible came; and, after seven years of study, during a period of pastoring, in 1992, I received a Masters Degree in Theology from the New World Theological Seminary in Texarkana, Arkansas. 2. Rather than lapsing into complacency, after having been qualified, I discovered that my studies forced me somewhat into an even greater desire to search the Scriptures more thoroughly; since during the times of my pastoring and other ministerial activities, through questions forwarded to me by 'trained' ministers and untrained believers alike, I became unsettlingly aware that many of the things which so-called Christians believed and practiced really had nothing at all to do with Almighty God or the Bible; and furthermore, I realized that, for many, what is referred to as 'the Church', is, more often than not, considered to be synonymous with Almighty God and Jesus, The Christ. This findings proved to be a 'wake-up call' for me, the result being an even more intensified study of the Truths of the Word of Almighty God, The Holy Bible. 3. New York (in the Bronx) where I live for half of my adult life, has proven to be a singular experience for me in all facets of my life, particularly the Spiritual; my being an immigrant from Belize in Central America. A retired teacher and widower, I have purposed to spend much more time writing of those things which have been revealed to me in the Scriptures for the edification of those who are of a mind to learn the Truth as Almighty God will have them know it from His Holy Word; with a view to correcting many, or all, of the vexing problems which plague the Church and the lives of those who sincerely want to walk with Almighty God according to His Will.

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A SCRIPTURAL RENAISSANCE

Rudolph Solis

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WestBow Press rev. date: 1/6/2011

Contents

DEDICATION

PROLOGUE

COMMENTARY

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

DEDICATION

I dedicate this Work to my fiancée, Charmaine, for the quiet inspiration that she has been to me during the months of days and nights of labor which have been spent in the sifting of thoughts, conversations, occasional questions as to my progress, and the steadfast support which she has been able to give to me, simply from my knowledge that she is always there, as it were, in my corner. By her own diligence and personal zeal and application to her own work, she has served to encourage me to be constant and indefatigable in pursuing this Writing to its final conclusion.

To my children, who first heard the Gospel from my voice even when they were still in their mother’s belly. I am sure that they will remember our days together during times of family devotions, the Scripture Teachings which they received from me, and the many things which they have, in their turn, taught me; and other times that we spent together with our Lord and Savior, Jesus, The Christ. I am sure that many of the Truths set forth in this Writing will profit them immensely, not only those of which they are already aware from their early teachings at home; but furthermore, those which were but mere inspirations in my mind during their young days; which needed the process of Time for their development and full revelation to me as they have been presented today. I pray that they will use them to keep their minds focused on the Lord of their Salvation, and sheltered from the influences of Men and their philosophies and traditions, and, wherever possible, teach diligently those who are of a heart to listen and to learn.

To my many friends who are sincere in the ministering of the Gospel of The Lord, Jesus, The Christ; many of whom I offer apologies for the times when our discussions would escalate into my aggravating the daylights out of some of you by the sheer tenacity on my convictions; my refusing to give ground, if even only a bit, along with what many of you perceived to be a ferociousness of debate which, sometimes, bordered upon the unpleasant. Please forgive me. For indeed, even though many of you, my friends, may not have realized it, you were actively assisting me in the proper formulation of my convictions by your participation in our debates. Again, please forgive me, and do receive my heartfelt thanks for contributing to my spiritual development; for indeed, I have experienced through you, yet another Truth of the Scriptures that, Iron sharpeneth Iron. My heart is free of any and all ill-will towards anyone; and, should you get the opportunity to lay hold on a copy of this Book, I wish you, Wisdom.

Pastor Rudy

PROLOGUE

According to the Book of Numbers, in the Bible, (13:23) when Moses sent chosen spies from among the congregation of the Children of Israel (at that time encamped in the Wilderness of Paran), into the Land of Canaan, the Land which Almighty God had given to them, and which was to come to be known as the Land of Israel, it took two of those men, with a pole resting upon one shoulder of each man, to carry a cluster (a single bunch) of grapes back to the encampment where Moses and the rest of the Children of Israel were awaiting their return and report. Later on in the same Bible, in the Book of Judges (14: 5-6), one is able to read yet another account about that Land, in a town called Timnath, and some two hundred thirty years later, in the days when a young Samson, a Judge of Israel, slew a lion. Taking from these accounts and from the location of that Land and its proximity to the historical location where the Garden of Eden is supposed to have been located, and this, coupled with the Truth as exposed in Scripture that Almighty God always makes ample provision for Man’s needs wherever He chooses to establish Man (before He locates Man, as in Genesis 2:8-9), we can deduce, without even the smallest margin of error, that this Land within which He had placed the Children of Israel, was a lush, verdant Land, rich and overflowing with flora and fauna. When we consider also the naturally extant food-chain Principle which provides for the continued growth of all species of Life, we realize that lions will not survive as a specie where there do not exist lesser animals to provide their fare. The same Bible tells us that there was a day which dawned when Almighty God, through His servant Moses, saw fit to warn the Children of Israel, His Own Chosen People, that "if thou would not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all His commandments and statutes……….(Deuteronomy 28:15), that He would, among a multitude of other curses, make thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. The Lord shall make thy Land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed (Deuteronomy 28:23-24)

Any one of us who has been exposed to the principles of Farming and/or even small Gardening should know that it is not wise to expect a harvest from seeds planted upon a piece of iron, or where, instead of a sky filled with rain clouds, one sees a canopy of Brass. Unfortunately however, this appears to be the expectation of many Americans, particularly those who refer to themselves as ‘Christians’ or ‘the American Church’. Those of us in our generation who have lived to be able to enjoy the benefits of the proverbial ‘hindsight’ by looking into the Scriptures and arriving at the place where we have come to believe that it is well worth our while to pay heed to what Almighty God has to say, are able to look at the Land of Israel today (and all those Lands surrounding it), and see the vast areas of seemingly interminable desert which overspread the once luscious vegetation which represented the excessive bounty of Almighty God to the Children of Israel; and which made every provision for their material sustenance.

We need not enter into the folly of questioning as to the ‘whys’ and ‘wherefores’ of the desolation which befell a once rich and bountiful Land; but rather, we need only to look to the very same Bible and recognize the major, in fact, the sole reason for the descent of this Curse upon the Children of Israel, and realize that it was their own ignominious descent into the practice of National Idolatry, the turning away from the worship of the One, True, Living, Almighty, Jehovah God, to the worship of Idols, which initiated and consummated their downfall to this day. Somehow Men today, particularly those who call themselves ‘Christians’ have either chosen to ‘forget’ and, in some cases, have made themselves willingly ignorant, of the experiences documented in the Scriptures concerning the establishment and subsequent destruction of the Nation of Ancient Israel; because of her rejection of the Word of Almighty God. We have looked back into the records of History and have seen the end of the Roman Empire, the nation of people who saw fit to crucify the Lord of Salvation; and, despite their boastfulness and pride, lived, very much like most in the ‘American Church’ today, in self-delusion and ungodliness; until someone dared to shout: the barbarians are at the gate! Unfortunately, that warning, which was obvious for too long, but obscured by self-delusion, came too late!

This writer would like to remind America at large, but, specifically the so-called Church in America that, the same Almighty God Who dealt with King Nebuchadnezzar, with King Cyrus of Persia, the same Almighty Who dealt with the Children of Israel, the same Almighty God Who dealt with the Soviet Union, and with Adolph Hitler’s third Reich, is the same Almighty God Who saw fit to warn Twenty-First Century America and the American Church, and every so-called Christian at large, through the Apostle John, that there is a Revelation with all its awesome ramifications which have been prophesied and whose prophecies have yet to be fulfilled for those who occupy the earth at this Time. Those therefore, who have taken time out to look back and see Almighty God’s dealings with Men in Time Past, ought to realize that He is the Same Almighty God Who is Alive today (though some would like to persuade themselves otherwise); and Who is quite able to fulfill those Prophecies put forward in The Revelation. For, contrary to the imagination of puny Men, he is neither dead; nor is He some senile ‘old’ man’ floating about in the cosmos without any knowledge of what is taking place in this world which He created. Thus, as we can look back and see the fulfillment of those ancient prophecies upon whom they were pronounced, we might want to recognize that those pronounced upon this generation will also, without fail, be fulfilled. Be advised that What the Apostle John was shown were occurrences which were written as in the Past. The Apostle looked and he saw. Inasmuch as The Revelation was showing things that were to ‘be hereafter’ (after John’s vision), the Apostle was not speaking of anything that was going to happen. He was speaking of things that had already been done. It does not occur to many that the events of The Revelation cannot be recalled; for they have already been set in motion. The reason why we still are living upon this Planet in its present condition is simply because the distances over which the Instruments of Destruction aimed at this Earth in The Revelation are so vast, that, from the moment that Almighty God gave instruction to the angels for them to be released, they were on their way; yet delayed only by the eons of Time over which they must travel before they reach the Planet Earth. Be aware that Almighty God is not ‘getting ready’ to make any decision. The Decision has already been made and the Destruction to be wreaked upon this Planet is an already forgone conclusion! The sole escape that Man now has left at his disposal is the shelter provided by the Blood of The Crucified Christ. Please do not allow the passage of the last two thousand years to deceive you; for, where Almighty God is concerned, "One day is as a thousand years and one thousand years as a day" (II Peter 3:8). As far as Almighty God is concerned, The Coming of The Christ, and the giving of the Prophecy of The Revelation took place only the day before yesterday. All those massive pieces of objects that Man today are only beginning to learn to observe in the cosmos are only located in the heavens around the earth. Remember The Revelation speaking of ‘a mountain’ being cast into the sea? Without the Christ, mister, you had better gird your loins and hold on to your hat! He that has ears to hear, let him hear!

However, we do not need to look thus far afield; nor do we need to traverse thus far into the distant Past in order to recognize that the awesomely devastating consequences of the folly of rejecting the Word of Almighty God are making themselves increasingly apparent in the National Life of America; a nation from which, at one time (and a time seemingly already forgotten), heralded the Gospel of Jesus, The Christ into the rest of the World. Apart from the Book of The Revelation in the Bible, the just ended Twentieth Century was a Time during which Almighty God issued yet some final, ominous warnings to America, to the American ‘Church’, and to the World at large; but, as far as these are concerned, those were simply ‘historical’ occurrences about which they need not concern themselves. Her vision clouded by her so-called industrial, political, and military ascendancy in the world, America and the ‘American Church’ have totally lost sight of Who their Benefactor Is; and, in their boastfulness and pride, have come to the place where they have forgotten the ‘writing on the wall’, so to speak. They have forgotten the warnings of the ‘Crash of the Stock Market’ in 1929, and the subsequent Grinding Poverty with which the nation was afflicted as a result. They have forgotten that, hardly had they lifted their heads and cleared their vision from the massive and destructive Dust Storms of the farmlands in the mid-west, someone shouted in their ears, ‘the barbarians are over Pearl Harbor’, and they once again became embroiled in a World War, the second in a period of hardly over two decades’ time. They were subjected to sufficient harrowing throughout the Second World War for them to realize that the winning of the War was not because of their own military prowess; yet, like the Romans, in their Arrogance and Pride, they have failed to recognize their Deliverer. Indeed, they have come to the place where so many of them even now think themselves to be so ‘intellectually enlightened’, that they question whether there is even such An One as Almighty God. They have seen (and there are people still alive today and who can remember) the Rise and Fall of the infamous Soviet Union, and exactly what happens to people who want to occupy Almighty God’s Earth; but who brazenly determine that they do not owe any Homage or Worship to Him. They, and all of us are presently witnessing the gradual slipping of America from the ‘first place’ in the World to a situation where the living conditions in most American Communities are already identical to what Americans once upon a time referred to as ‘third world countries’. The future success of the economy of America (and, as a result, her very life) now rests in the hands, and at the dictates of, not only foreign nations, but nations who are avowed enemies; but far worse, nations who do not know Almighty God. Does that not sound very much like Almighty God delivering the Ancient Nation of Israel into the ‘hands of her enemies’? Yet, here is a Nation, and far more significant, the so-called Church within her, which have come to the place where, on the one hand, the Nation-at-large is rejecting Almighty God; whilst the ‘Church’ although not speaking its rejection, yet by her very behavior has lost her witness to the Nation and to the World; which witness is, by the way, the sole purpose of Almighty God for allowing her to survive in the Nation and in the World.

This book is not designed to be a novel that one will be able to take up on a wintry or rainy weekend and entertain oneself. It has been deliberately written as a hard Book, and was not designed for any degree of ‘entertainment’. In a nation where people have grown into the habit of inuring themselves to Self-delusion, Escapism, Lies, and Deception, this Book will prove to be a very hard, upsetting, and aggravating Book for many to read. For, first of all, inasmuch as one might not be a Bible Scholar, the accompaniment of the Bible with the reading of this Treatise is essential to its understanding. Secondly, this writer makes no excuses or apologies for the Truths set forth in this Writing; seeing that, whatever is herein written is founded directly upon the Word of Almighty God as presented in the Holy Scriptures; and are therefore written without any compunction on the part of this writer. Thus, this writer could not care less for the reactions of anger, frustration, disillusionment, confusion, or desperation which it might evoke in those who dare to read it. The language is uncharacteristically harsh, pointed, unrelenting, and uncompromising; yet, the writer makes no apologies for this; for this is a deliberate design.

There is no intent whatsoever to question, gainsay, or debate the contents of Scripture as presented in the Holy Bible; the version of which is the ‘King James’; that being the original version of the Bible. Nonetheless, comparisons have been duly made with the more prevalent Versions of Holy Scripture where possible. Scripture quotes are used profusely with the sole intent to assist those who are True Sons of Almighty God through the Blood of The Christ, in order they might attain and /or retain a clear focus on just Who they are and Who Almighty God Is, and what their True Purpose in this World is; and those who are genuinely desirous of gaining the Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding provided by the One, True Almighty God Jehovah to Man for His Salvation, Guidance, and Spiritual Edification. The purpose of this Writing is to bring True Believers in The Christ to a consciousness that very much has gone awry with the understanding of those who, as Jesus, The Christ intended, were saved in this World to be ‘lights’ in it; but who, contrary to Almighty God’s intent, have been spending their time over the past Seventeen Centuries listening to what Men say that the Bible says; rather than listening to what the Bible Itself says.

You will encounter much to be said about and against the Roman Catholic Church; whose false and Devious Doctrines are responsible for the loss of innumerable souls to eternal damnation. Where doctrine has not been tampered with and changed into ‘Church dogma’, Lies have been substituted for Sound Doctrine. Outright Deception has been used to support Spurious Doctrines which have been concocted to hold Men’s minds incarcerated to the Practice of Idolatry. Through Crass Ignorance and a Refusal to adhere to the Word of Almighty God, ‘Edicts’ have been issued to maintain Human Beings captive in Spiritual Bondage to the Religion without any Scriptural Foundation to support them. Under the guise of representing Almighty God on this earth, the Roman Catholic Church has taken Liberties with Men’s Souls, binding them to observe religious ‘commandments’ and ‘statutes’ which have nothing to do with Almighty God or His Holy Word, to the utter destruction of the Souls of Men. Yet, view this as you may, the intent on the part of this writer is not, as some would quickly like to label it (for this is a nation of labelers); but rather, the sole reason is in light of the fact that the Roman Catholic Church is the only Church and/or ecclesiastical entity which, for over a thousand years, after taking over the True Doctrines of the True Church in 313 A.D., spent time corrupting those doctrines with the sole and diabolical intent of controlling the minds of Men to the utter destruction of numberless immortal souls of Men forever.

The constant and seemingly unnecessary use of the Name ‘Almighty God’ is also a deliberate exercise; solely for the distinct purpose of eliminating any possibility of query, wonderment, misunderstanding, or error in conveying to the minds of readers of this Treatise exactly to Whom this writer refers when he makes any reference to the One, True, Living, Almighty, Jehovah God, Maker of Heaven and Earth; in order to eliminate any possibility of confusion with any other entity in Heaven or in Earth which wayward Men might see fit to regard as god.

The purpose of this Book therefore, is to alert True Believers in the Bible to the possibility that, as Man stands upon the threshold of the end of this system of things on this Earth, having come to the end of his probation period upon this Earth, this Writing might just be one of the last warnings that those who name the Name of The Christ might receive warning them to correct their ways, and sever the ties which continue to bind them to the Godless Doctrines of a System which continue to influence the minds of so many who call themselves ‘Christians’; yet, who do not know that many of their adopted Doctrines and Practices are patently ungodly; and were not so mistakenly presented to the world; but rather, were deliberately engineered by a System which is clearly, according to the Scriptures, operating firmly within the grip of the Forces of Evil; and is a conscious and willing participant with the same for nothing other than the destruction of the souls of Men. For, it is the seeds of this same Godless System, prospering within many who call themselves ‘Christians’, which cause them to be living like the rest of the world; while pretending to be True Sons of Almighty God. In many cases, many of these same so-called Christians are not even aware that many of the practices with which they have become engaged in the Name of Almighty God are philosophies and traditions which have nothing to do with either Almighty God, His Christ, or the Holy Bible.

This Treatise therefore, might very well serve to be a last call to whomever there be who are of the True Church, to effect a Scriptural Renaissance in their own lives and those of their loved-ones, and whosoever is of a heart to hear and obey the True Word of Almighty God, which will cause them to return to the Truth of the Scriptures as set forth in the Bible by the Writings of the Apostles of The Christ, which comprise the True New Testament of the Bible; and consists of that portion of the Bible from the Book of The Acts of the Apostles to the Book of Jude. For then, and only then, will they be able to divest themselves of the spurious doctrines by which they have been tainted for all these generations.

No doubt there will be those who will reject this Writing out-of-hand, and declare it to be ‘too negative’ in many of its aspects. For there are many today who call themselves ‘Christians’; yet are unable to bear Truth, particularly when it comes directly at them. They would prefer the application of euphemisms and ‘politically correct’ speech rather than Truth; because Truth, as far as they are concerned, is no longer considered to be the ‘intellectual’ or ‘positive’ approach in a pseudo-intellectual society where Lies, Evasions, Dishonesty, and Immorality have taken the place of Truth. However, you may very well go on as you have been going, whilst deluding yourself that you do not need the Wisdom herein recorded. However, the fruits of your self-delusion are rising upon the horizon, and will one day very soon, surely reward you as it will all those who have chosen to reject Truth; and who have never paid heed to the warning as recorded in the Bible in (I Thessalonians 5:3) For when they shall say Peace and Safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Furthermore, it is the patent behavior of those who (and, in this case, ‘those’ will refer especially to Roman Catholics), when confronted with Truth which has had one or more previous mentions and public hearings, to take the tack that, hey, enough already; that is old History, and everybody already knows about that! They would indeed like the repetitions to ‘go away’. Well, it might indeed be ‘old History’, as far as the offenders are concerned; however, where Almighty God and this Preacher are concerned, it will never be over until that Great Court of Justice is convened, and the perpetrators be brought to Judgment. For, whether we like to hear the ‘repetitions’ of Past History or not, this preacher has one Truth to bring to the consciousness of so-called Christians and church-people; and that is, that, when Almighty God extended His Mercy to the World in order to save Mankind by the Death of His Son, Jesus, The Christ, He left those in the World who called upon the Name of the Christ to be saved in order for them to be ‘Lights’ to the rest of Unregenerate Mankind. The continued condemnation of Human Souls as a result of Apostasy, False Doctrines, and the Continuing Practice of Unabashed Idolatry by whomever; and which Practices continue to drive innumerable Immortal Souls to Eternal Destruction, cannot be allowed to go unchallenged and be treated by those who claim to have been saved by the Blood of The Christ, as it is simply a matter of who chooses to do what in the name of Religion. For, this preacher will remind all and sundry (and that most solemnly) by this quote from Edmund Burke, who once reminded all those who will claim to be possessive of a conscience that, The only thing necessary for Evil to triumph is for Good Men to do nothing.

Whether you like or ‘appreciate’ the ‘negative’ connotations as to the failing ‘Church’, I invite you to consider the even more ‘negative’ question as put forward by The Christ Himself, Who questioned if He would find Faith in the earth when He returns. For, when you see Divorce rates inside the so-called Church as high (or higher in some communities) than outside in the World; when you hear so-called Christians spewing out profanity in normal conversational situations; when you see ‘Christians’ losing their patience and ‘flying off the handle’ at the slightest inconvenience; when you see men and women willing to do ‘anything’ to obtain money and other material things; when you see so-called church-women prostituting themselves for money, cars, even clothing, and positions on jobs; when you see men perfectly content with sleeping with other men’s wives and getting up on the pulpits in ‘Churches’ and ‘preaching’; when you see Thieves, Liars, Sodomites, Lesbians, Pedophiles, Bigamists, Gluttons, Drunks, Shysters, Swindlers, Con-men, and all-around Degenerates, all crowding into the ‘Church’ (with some of them ‘preaching’ from the pulpits) and becoming engaged in what is referred to as ‘worshipping Almighty God’ and standing shoulder to shoulder with those who dare to consider themselves True Believers; then you must realize that the end is upon Man; for Men have lost all vestige of even a basic Conscience.

Inasmuch as it is expected that none of the foregoing may be considered as a totality in any situation, yet, the general atmosphere of Deception and Hypocrisy within the confines of many ‘Church’ congregations lend support to the incidences of emotionalism and vulgar exaggerations which have come to be accepted by many as the ‘moving of the Holy Spirit’ of Almighty God. Do not deceive yourself. There exists absolutely no confusion or misunderstanding when the Holy Spirit of Almighty God is ‘moving’ within any circumstance or situation. Look into the Scriptures during the days of the early Church (before 313 A.D.) and see if She was ever top-heavy with people running after religious philosophies.

It is this writer’s experience with Almighty God and with the Written Truth of Holy Scripture which assert that there need not be any manner of imitation, or supposition, or insinuation, where the Holy Spirit of Almighty God is concerned; when True Believers are walking in Sincere and upright fashion with Almighty God; and where Truth (in word and deed) serves to provide the True Believer with the ever-present Power of the Holy Spirit, which enables him to live according to the Word of Almighty God, and above the vagrancies of a corrupt society and world.

Thus, for those who will study this Treatise with a view to receiving Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding in the Word of Almighty God in order to correct their ways, they will note that this Writing avoids the use of the writer’s own Opinions, Philosophies, Interpretations, and any other of Man’s Intellectual Interferences where the quotations of Scriptures are concerned. This Treatise has been set forth with the sole intent to ignite (or re-ignite) within those who name the Name of The Christ, the spark of the original purpose and desire of The Christ to bring Men into a Personal Relationship with Himself and Almighty God, to the exclusion of the pernicious undertakings of Men’s Religions, their Philosophies and Traditions.

It is my prayer that True Believers who will spend time to Study and understand the Writings of this Treatise, will receive the full spiritual benefits of any who will spend the time and effort to seek the Face of Almighty God; to enquire of Him for their souls’ edification, and to grow in the Wisdom and Understanding which have been their birthright in The Christ from the day that they first made a commitment to follow Him. My counsel to such is to follow on through with the Study and Scripture References provided, spend time meditating on what it is that you are reading, and allow Almighty God, not Men, to give you a thorough understanding of the Profession of your Faith; all this, with a view to putting a stop to the convulsive and wayward beliefs and behavior of those in your midst who name the Name of The Christ, even those who call themselves pastors, or teachers, or ministers, or whatever else; showing them these Writings and admonishing them to lay hold upon the Wisdom and Understanding herein contained.

May Almighty God enjoin herewith to teach you to the utmost of His Wisdom provided for you.

Rudolph Solis 2010, A.D.

COMMENTARY

(Why this Book is needed)

There was a time in the History of Man in this earth when Almighty God sent His Holy Angels with a special announcement for all Mankind to come to the realization that, as far as He was concerned, Almighty God preferred that an end be put to the enmity which existed between Himself and Mankind. That momentous message is recorded in Holy Writ for all and sundry to see and savor: Peace on earth, goodwill toward Men!

The enmity which necessitated such a move on the part of Almighty God was introduced into the earth by His archenemy, Satan, and made possible among Men by Adam’s acceptance of the terms of relationship with Satan which were offered to him by this latter; thereby eschewing Almighty God’s Goodwill as was originally incorporated within the Earth and upon Man and his undertakings at the Creation.

Men have seen, through the History of the Holy Scriptures, that it came to the place where Men, because of their unholy alliance with Satan, had become so evil that it became necessary for Almighty God to preside over the destruction of the Earth and almost the totality of its occupants, saving only Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wives; who were therefore charged to re-establish the generations of Men in the earth.

This History notwithstanding, however, Mankind today, having degenerated to the same, or perhaps, even lower levels of Debauchery as existed in Noah’s day, stands, once again, upon the threshold of yet another Divinely Authored Catastrophe; this Time, of proportions so unimaginable, that, even the Heavens will provide no recourse!

As Noah stood as a beacon among sinful Men, so the Church has been left by its Head, The Christ of Almighty God, to warn a world of sinful Men of their impending doom. Sadly, however, the world of sinful Men has summarily rejected Almighty God’s offer of Peace and Goodwill of Two Thousand Years ago, and, with them, unlike the Faithful Noah, seemingly, in many instances, the Very entity which was supposed to be the Faithful Voice in the earth, the ‘Church’. Together, they (the World and apparently also) the ‘Church’ have responded to the Divine offer of Peace with a measure of Evil that far transcends that of Noah’s day, by comparison. As a result, there is none today who can look at the state of the world, and honestly and truly assert that Man has attained a deeper understanding of the reason why Noah’s Generation suffered as it did; a lesson which, if learned, might well have served to curb Man’s erstwhile behavior towards Almighty God today, and thus avert the Catastrophe which now stands ready to be unleashed upon Planet Earth. Furthermore, according to the Word of Almighty God, the Church that has been left to provide the Righteous Witness, and be the ‘beacon’ of which a Sinful World finds itself in such dire need, has proven to be woefully inept; and, as Heaven and the World have watched, has herself degenerated into the state of being a ‘byword’ in the face of those to whom she was designated to be ‘Leader and Light’.

This Writing therefore is a clarion call to all those who name the Name of The Christ of Almighty God, to come to grips with what they are beholding in the world around them, and set about the aligning of their lives with the Incorruptible Word of Almighty God; with a view to returning to the heralding of the True Gospel of The Christ as it was His intention that they do, before that Great and Dreadful Day of The Lord God Almighty shall descend upon an ungodly Generation of Men; and that once joyfully heralded Peace be turned into a Dark and All-consuming Wrath.

There are many who call themselves ‘Christians’ today who have, for a very long season now, embarked upon a most dangerous pastime of endeavoring to play games with Almighty God by continuing to name His Name upon themselves, while engaging in the selfsame corruption of a World against whose sinful deeds they were called to be Witnesses of The Christ and His True Doctrine; and who have grown satisfied in their hearts that it is now ‘modern’ and ‘fashionable’ to play the hypocrite. The writer of this Treatise is issuing this solemn warning to such to turn away from their vain pursuits, and seek, through the cleansing of His Holy Word, to walk sincerely before Him, within Whose very Hand their Eternal Salvation abides. For, He has warned most solemnly, before the Earth’s destruction in Noah’s Day: My Spirit shall not always strive with Man; for that he also is flesh.

The Prophecy of this Writing therefore is the same as that which has been issued according to the Book of The Revelation of The Lord Christ to His Prophet and Apostle, John, that, Almighty God has had enough with a stiff-necked Human Race!

From this preacher therefore, to all and sundry: YOU HAVE BEEN SUMMARILY WARNED: GET RIGHT WITH ALMIGHTY GOD!

CHAPTER ONE

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RELIGION VS THE BIBLE:

(The Righteous Lineage)

Jesus, The Christ, when He was departing this earth, said to His Apostles: ……….Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8)

This writer was standing on line in the bank one day, going over and over in his mind the things that are being practiced in what is called ‘the Church’ today; that entity of which Christ is supposedly the Head. I was trying to line up the things which I am seeing with the picture that kept passing before my mind’s eye of the True Church that existed at the time that The Christ spoke the aforementioned words to that group of men whom He intended to be the leaders of His Church. It was then that this voice penetrated my thoughts; and sounding as though it was coming from a very long distance away, was interrupting them with this question: Sir, sir, are you a minister? I started for a moment, thinking that this was a prompt coming from those on line behind me to advance to the next available teller. I checked my position on the line, and realized that there were still three people in front of me; when, there, again was the question: are you a minister, sir, you look one to me; are you? The question was coming from a woman directly on line behind me, who appeared to be in her mid-sixties. I replied, yes ma’am, why do you ask? Because, she said, I have been troubled for a long time now about a question that keeps bothering me, even in my dreams. She continued, I have asked my pastor, I have asked other pastors, and I have asked different people who are high up in the church; but I have never been able to get a satisfactory answer. Without any intervention from me, she went on, I would like to know why is it that the church does not reflect the power that is spoken of in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible. I remember when I got saved many years ago, I was told by the people that witnessed to me that: If you come to Jesus, if you believe in Jesus, if you just give your life to Jesus, all these troubles you are experiencing, will go away. I have never experienced this. Why is that?

You are asking me two questions, ma’am, I said to her. The first, regarding the Power which the Church is supposed to possess, will take quite a long time to explain, along with a lot of Scriptural knowledge and understanding. However, one thing I can say right off is, that what people call ‘the church’ today, has very little or nothing at all to do with either Almighty God or with Jesus, The Christ. I thereupon gave her my telephone number and information as to when she could call. Whoever those folks were that spoke to you, inviting you to get saved, and promising you that ‘all your troubles will go away’, please allow me to inform you that they simply lied to you. There is nowhere in the Bible that gives anyone such assurance. Furthermore, there is nowhere in the New Testament Scriptures where anyone has been given permission either by Jesus, The Christ, or by any of His Apostles to give anyone else any such assurance. In point of fact, I continued, "The Bible declares exactly the opposite to that which they told you. Please check your Bible ma’am, and you will see in the Book of Romans 9:36, the Apostle Paul saying: As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. If that is not enough for you, listen to Jesus, The Christ Himself, prophesying to His disciples: ……In the world you will have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.(John 16:33) "By the way, ma’am, ‘tribulation’ means nothing but trouble; and it does not sound any at all to me that these two people, The Christ and His Apostle Paul, were giving any assurance to anyone as to the dissolution of our problems when we set out to follow Jesus, The Christ. Rather, as you will see, neither of them (Jesus, The Christ, nor the Apostle Paul) hid the Truth from being put forward. In point of fact, if you had spent some time in your own Bible studying the lives of the both of these men, you would already have been able to see for yourself that such as the folks who spoke to you, are nothing but Liars".

My turn then came to do my business at the teller’s window; upon which completion, I left the bank. About a week later, this woman telephoned me at home; whereupon we spoke for more than four hours; with her, sometimes in tears over the Scriptural Truths I am now about to reveal to you, dear reader, exactly as I revealed them to her. Bear in mind, that this Book is not set out to question the Truths of the Bible. The only ‘question’ really, that is forwarded concerning the Holy Bible as Is, is that of the manner in which the Holy Book is ‘constructed’; which reflects, not the Scriptural CONTENT; but, rather, the erroneous ‘structure’ of the Book, which, when considered, serves to mislead those who read it, into the acquisition of unsound doctrine; since the format of the Bible is contradicted by Scripture Itself. This fact I intend to prove; as is said in the Laws of the Land, ‘beyond the shadow of a doubt’. For, I am quite certain that there will be multitudes of critics who will be ‘waiting in the wings’ to voice their various ‘opinions’. To such I say simply, this writer is not motivated by even his own ‘opinions’; thus, he is not interested in anyone else’s ‘opinion’ or so-called interpretation.

Whosoever sees fit therefore, to criticize this writing, or to forward an ‘opinion’ with regards the contents contained herein, let such an one use The sole Word of Almighty God as his terms of reference, along with the relative quotations of Scripture as the foundation for whatever his criticism might be. For this writer (and every True Believer in The Christ, I believe) are thoroughly satisfied that far more than enough ‘opinions’ and ‘interpretations’ have gone before on The Holy Word of Almighty God; which indeed stands in absolutely no need of Man’s so-called interpretation; since The Word of Almighty is its own Interpreter; and, if Men would only spend the time and engage themselves in the necessary prayers and meditations upon that Word, in the effort to comprehend its deepest meanings, they would surely discover them right there in the same Bible.

I therefore have no compunction in issuing this challenge to any, and to all and sundry, including fellow-ministers, to prove me wrong by Holy Writ, according to the succeeding assertions which I now set down to be recorded into History.

Please remember, as you go through this Treatise, dear reader, that I did not sneak around to your house last night while you were asleep and write these things in your Bible. They have been part of your Bible from the time that all the other writings contained therein were written in that Holy Book. As I told that dear woman in the bank that day, I tell you now: "the problem people have with the Bible is not what the Bible says; but rather what men say that the Bible says".

So, please, dear reader, whether you are a ‘church person’, or what men call a ‘Christian’; or’ whether you are a bona fide Son of Almighty God through faith in Jesus, The Christ, I invite you to come, take a stroll with me through the Scriptures and see for yourself, whether it be days, or weeks, or months, years, or even decades’ since you took your very first look into the Bible, if what your head has been telling you that you believe, to hold as the Truth of Almighty God, is really what Almighty God has truly been saying in His Word to you, and to all those others who are running around claiming affiliation with the One, True, Living, and Almighty Jehovah God of the Universe.

Between the time of the deaths of the Apostles of Jesus, The Christ and the surfacing of the ancient scrolls containing what we now know to be the Holy Bible, True Believers have been summarily blinded by the false doctrines that began to flood into the True Church with the advent of the Roman populace into her upon the decree issued by Roman Emperor Constantine in 313 A.D., that the persecution of the True Believers was to cease, and the ‘Christian’ church was to become the ‘official’ Religion of the Roman people. Slowly, the True Doctrine of the Apostles of Jesus, The Christ began to be eroded right up to, and including the present day; in spite of the preaching of so-called evangelical Christians who would like to believe that they are preaching the Truth of Almighty God. They seem to have lost sight of the fact that, from 313 A.D. to the time of Martin Luther, in 1517, over twelve hundred years, the Truth of Almighty God had become dreadfully corrupted by all the heretical doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic System. It further appears that they have also lost sight of the fact that Martin Luther himself was already corrupted by the Roman System; and that, furthermore, what he had caught sight of in his 95 theses was merely the proverbial ‘tip of the iceberg’ where the Heresies, Blasphemies, and downright diabolical doctrines of the Roman Catholic System are concerned. The folks who today are purportedly ‘preaching’ what they think is the Gospel of Jesus, The Christ as passed on by the Apostles of Jesus, The Christ, seem to have either neglected, failed, or tacitly refused to take account of the fact that, from 313 A.D., when the edict to make the True Church of Jesus, The Christ the official Religion of the Romans, the world completely LOST sight of the True Church until the emergence of Martin Luther; and somehow, has lost cognizance also that, at the time of the translation of the Bible as ordered by James I of England in 1611, all the monarchs and monarchies in Europe were regimented by the Vatican and the Roman Catholic System. With the exception of the ancient Eastern Religions that were located more distantly in the Orient, many of the people living in Europe were dominated, castigated, indoctrinated, incarcerated, and murdered by, and in ignorance, poverty and disease which were fostered by the Roman Catholic System that maintained itself supreme and inviolate over the minds of Men, through the ignominious application of a little spattering of Truth here and there, Gargantuan Errors, and a multitude of Outrageous Lies; and, in the final analysis, showed themselves to the entire world, then, and now, how diabolically evil they could be, with a group of sadists ruling in their hierarchy, and using floggings, gruesome tortures, burnings-at-the-stake, and crucifixions as what they considered to be ‘educational tools’ in their all-encompassing efforts to ‘correct’ what they regarded as the ‘recalcitrants’ in the ‘faith’.

This, then, brings us to the premise of the first chapter of this writing: JUST WHAT MAKES UP THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE, AND WHY.

Please bear in mind, dear reader, that this Work is not in any way intended to question, debate, or malign anything that forms CONTENT as is extant in the Precious Word of Almighty God. The intent here, however, is, not only to QUESTION the Arrangement, but to PROVE, and this by the Scriptures themselves, that the presentation of the Bible in Its present format, must needs be held suspect. For, in light of the acceptance of the Bible in Its contents SINCE Its presentation to the world in the early Seventeenth century, it must be held as a foregone conclusion that the WORK of the translators of the Bible was considered ‘Complete and Authoritative’.

Therefore, any attempt by anyone to rebut by way of excuse or explanation, or even denial, on the behalf of the ‘translators’, any of the subsequent arguments to be forwarded by this writer in this book, such should be considered spurious, and without merit; and, furthermore, such person or persons should be considered as active ‘proponents’ of the ancient ‘endeavor’ by those who are anti-God and anti-Christ in their combined efforts to undermine the Truth of Holy Writ as presented to us by the Apostles of Jesus, The Christ. For, upon the presentation of this writer’s arguments, there will, no doubt, be those who will question as to what difference it makes whether the ‘construction’ of the Bible be made different or remain in Its present form. I say therefore to those who will pose any such question: "it makes All the difference where Eternity and the Salvation of your Souls are concerned. For, much, if not ALL, of what we were taught to believe about The Christ and the Bible, has to do with what men have been telling us that Jesus, The Christ ‘says to us’ in the Bible; and this, because of the mal-structure of the Bible.

The above-referenced argument therefore, begins with this statement of Truth: JESUS, THE CHRIST SAID NOTHING TO US! The Apostle John, writing to us, informed us that: For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.(John 1:17) Therefore, everything that Jesus, The Christ had to say should be studied and observed, not only by True Believers, but also by anyone and everyone who would have regard for Truth in his life. Nonetheless, by Jesus’ own declarations, He came unto the ‘Lost Sheep of the house of Israel’. His utterances therefore, are certainly profitable as ‘guidelines’ for the True Believer’s life and practice. However, those same utterances fall short of being ‘directives’ to Gentile New Testament True Believers; since Jesus, The Christ Himself vested His Apostles with authority over His Church (of which He is Head) and responsibility for Her instruction. One of His Apostles then, the Apostle Paul informs us: "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone". (Ephesians 2:20) How could the Apostle Paul say this? Listen to Jesus, The Christ Himself: (John 17:20) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. Anyone who took the time to notice, would have seen that the Leaders of the True Church were predominantly Jews. Also, please note, dear reader, that the Apostles and Prophets referred to here have nothing to do with folks today who are going around calling themselves ‘apostles’ and ‘prophets’. This subject also will be dealt with in later pages of this Book.

No doubt you, dear reader, have been among the readers of the Holy Scriptures, who may have asked themselves, at some time or other, why was this chapter ended here or why did they not continue this chapter to the end of the premise that was being presented? Have you ever really considered passages in Scripture such as: In the Book of The Acts of the Apostles, the ending of Chapter Twenty-one (and that with a comma), and the beginning of chapter twenty-two (this with a capital letter); but further, at the opening of a speech, indeed a plea for his life, by the Apostle Paul, the bulk of which was to run all the way through to verse Twenty-one of the following chapter. Did it ever occur to you that, for the sheer sake of better understanding, the Chapter could have been allowed to run the course of the premise that was being presented? Do you remember (or know), that the original Scrolls from which the Bible was translated, were written in continuously flowing script? There was no division of those Scripts as to Chapters and Verses. Aside from actually ‘translating’ from the original languages, whether under instructions or not (and from whom did such instructions proceed), the Bible Translators added these changes which might very well have been considered convenient to them to add.

Rather than being regarded as ‘errors’, these ‘slips’ might be tolerated as mere oversights; since they do not severely inflict any infringement upon the transmission of Sound Doctrine; the celebration and propagation of this latter being, above all else, the absolute purpose of this Treatise.

The matter of the placement of the Four Gospels in the New Testament, however, is no ‘slip’; and, unless this writer can be furnished with irrefutable proof that it is a genuine ‘error’, he will continue to exhort, cajole, convict, and remonstrate with ALL True Believers in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus, The Christ to establish not necessarily a new ‘concept’; but rather, set about teaching the Truth of Holy Scriptures with regards the understanding of the New Testament of the Holy Bible being consistent solely with that portion of The Holy Bible, from the Books of the Acts of the Apostles through that of The Book of Jude; the Revelation being an Apocryphal Writing, therefore excluded in its independent nature.

Why then is this preacher so adamant about this seemingly unimportant ‘anomaly’? Consider:

Two young fellows all dressed up in black suits and ties from what they call ‘the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ approached me one day on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx in New York; and the one said: Sir, did you know that there is another gospel that Jesus left? I regarded him for a moment, and as he was about to proceed with his talking, I said, just wait a minute. Just tell me, what do you know? If you both will be quiet for just a few minutes, you may very well leave this spot today praising God that you have learned something to the saving of your immortal souls.

Just then it occurred to me (as it has so many times) that the behavior of these two young people was so demonstrative of the vulgarity and futility of religion. For, from the time of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation so called, ushered in by the actions of Martin Luther, (bear in mind that, before this period, and after the corruption of the True Church began in 313 A.D. with the declaring of the True Church to be the ‘official church of Rome’ by Emperor Constantine, the only entity bearing the name ‘Church’ was the Roman Catholic Church); men began, and continue to this day, to take single, tiny slivers of the Scriptures around which they proceeded to build whole Religions, which they chose to refer to as ‘Churches’; after which they set out to lure unsuspecting and gullible people into adopting and following their pernicious ways. All this, that they might be able to say ours is the ‘true church’ because we observe such and such according to the Scriptures. Speak to them about the very Scriptures in the same Bible from which they purportedly derive their ‘doctrines’ and which prove their assertions wrong, they deliberately shy away from those Scriptures and behave as though those do not exist in the Bible. Just consider, dear reader, the so called Adventists. There is an almost innumerable amount of Scriptures, both in the Old and New Testaments, to prove that particular Religion to be scripturally baseless, WRONG, as far as Almighty God is concerned. In a nutshell, Almighty God makes it clear that He was not addressing Gentiles when He issued His Laws and Statutes; and, in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul, without compunction, calls such people fools in His writing in Galatians, Chapter Three. Yet, there are multitudes of people who, for the simple exercise of claiming that they ‘observe the Sabbath’ as a result of which they claim to be the ‘right church’, fail to recognize that the very God who made the Sabbath have summarily dismissed the people to whom He gave the Law, declaring that He does not want to hear from them anymore. This, of course, because they broke His Covenant.

As I observed these two young fellows standing before me, claiming to be of the Mormon Church, I thought, ‘what a waste’. All they could do was go about asking people if they knew that Jesus, The Christ, had left another gospel; all to the purpose of snaring unsuspecting Souls into a Religion that is clearly engaged in practices that are blatantly contrary to the Word of Almighty God.

All your concerns are bound up in RELIGION I went on to address myself to them! PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ARE FED UP WITH RELIGION, RELIGIONISTS, AND RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISIES! Now tell me, please, just what does it matter if there is, in fact, another Gospel concerning Jesus, The Christ? All you are concerned with is getting more people into your RELIGION in order to have just so many more innocent souls to drag along with you into HELL! Just then a neighbor woman, one of these ‘church people’ (no particular friend of mine, she simply lives in the same building where I reside) stopped to listen. So many of these, church-mongers I call them, walk about the streets, just listening to hear the word ‘Jesus’ or ‘Church’ or’ Bible’, and they will bump themselves into conversations, invited or not. Disregarding her, I continued to address myself to the two young guys who, unlike most others I have met before, were not making any move to go away. Directing my question to them, I continued: why do you believe that anyone should be interested in any other Gospel about Jesus, The Christ? I asked them. Is there not far and away more than enough confusion and false teachings going about with the four gospels that are already in the Bible; why would anyone need another? The one replied with a question, do you believe in God, sir? Before I could muster up an answer, this woman piped in, of course, he is a minister. I immediately saw one of the young fellows flinch; and it occurred to me that these religious people travel about seeking the ignorant and gullible; and, in some cases, indigent folks who are in such dire need of material help, that they become easy prey. I immediately gathered that they were not at all happy to hear the word ‘minister’. By this time, the woman had quickly opened up a bag she was toting, and extracted from it a Bible. I looked at her. She looked at me and said: well, ain’t ya? That’s what they tell me in the building. Without a word to her, I asked the fellow who had posed his question, are you a Jew? No he replied. The other said the same thing. I said to them: well, neither am I; and, that being the case, Jesus, The Christ was not speaking to any of us. What! The woman screamed. I thought you said you was a minister. How can you say that when, just this morning, I got a message for a neighbor from my Jesus I said nothing of the sort, I replied to her, you were the one that said you were told that I am a minister. Nonetheless, I went on, I am indeed a minister of the Gospel of Jesus, The Christ; and, as to His speaking to you this morning, I fail to see how He could be doing any such thing; when, whilst He was on the earth, He made it