Bible Secrets Revealed

By Shirley Dawn Shooter

Bible Secrets Revealed is intended to arouse the curiosity and interest of the reader to encourage further investigation into the subjects of life, through the scriptures, and to raise awareness of mankind's role in today's world. It intends to show the way to a better perspective on world conditions, in line with the renewed way of thinking under the terms of the Creator.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jul 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483674940

Shirley Dawn Shooter

SHIRLEY DAWN SHOOTER was born into a Christian family and although raised in the Anglican Church, she has no preference for any particular sect or church.She has a lifetime of interest in the Bible and has investigated many doctrines and searched the scriptures for answers.

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BIBLE SECRETS REVEALED

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Shirley Dawn Shooter

Copyright © 2013 by Shirley Dawn Shooter.

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The NRSV scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard version Bible, copyright * 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Contents

Chapter One Creation

Chapter Two Reality of God

Chapter Three Faith

Chapter Four Adoption

Chapter Five Angels

Chapter Six The Authenticity of the Bible

Chapter Seven Prophesies Fulfilled

Chapter Eight Hope for Mankind

Chapter Nine Creation Versus Evolution

Chapter Ten Jerusalem, Man’s Holy City/City of God

Chapter Eleven New Heavens and New Earth

Chapter Twelve Slavery and Freedom

Chapter Thirteen Jesus Christ in You

Chapter Fourteen Spirit

Chapter Fifteen Ghost

Chapter Sixteen Last Days

Chapter Seventeen Resurrection

Chapter Eighteen Earthquake: Birth of Jerusalem

Chapter Nineteen Signs

Chapter Twenty New Jerusalem

Chapter Twenty-One The Bride and Bridegroom

INTRODUCTION TO:

BIBLE SECRETS REVEALED.

This book is the work of many hours of research and prayer to Almighty God and is not meant to disparage or find fault with the beliefs of Christians, but is in fact designed to open awareness of scripture as applied to today’s lifestyle and history, past, present and future.

By Inspiration Of The Holy Spirit I have written this work to help all who read it understand the Bible in a new and personal way. There are many and varied interpretations of the Bible; my intention is to bring it to life in today’s understanding that all may come to know God in a very personal and rewarding way. If I have inadvertently upset anyone with my rendering I am most sincerely apologetic, however I cannot deny the promptings of the Holy Spirit, wherefore do I put pen to paper according to His Word and Will.

Sincerely,

Shirley D Shooter

By Inspiration of the Holy Spirit

Chapter One

Creation

To begin:

• In the beginning was God, who contained within Himself all forms of life including Jesus, His only begotten Son and Wisdom, daughter and designer. He is the author and sustainer of life. His first recorded creation was of the Spirit of Wisdom, one of the seven Spirits of the Holy Spirit which make up the total Being of God! Aside from the Spirit of Understanding, Wisdom is the only other Spirit of the Holy Spirit referred to as female.

KJV Prov. 8:1 Doth not Wisdom cry and Understanding put forth her voice?

Prov. 8:22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth: when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, 26 while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set a compass upon the face of the depth: 28 when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep: 29 when He gave the sea its decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment: when He appointed the foundations of the earth: 30 Then I was by Him as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him; 31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were in the sons of men. (Emphasis mine throughout)

• Some Bible translations use the word ‘architect’ or ‘master and director of work’.

There are several references to the beginning and it is a good and worthwhile investment to purchase a Bible concordance (which is like a dictionary and index for finding all references and given words or subjects). I use the Strong’s Concordance. For Bible references I use the King James and the New Revised Standard Bibles.

The Apocrypha includes:

Deuterocanonical Books:

Tobit; Judith; Esther; The Wisdom of Solomon; Sirach; Barach; The Letter of Jeremiah; Ariach and the three Jews; Susana; Bel and the Dragon; 1 Macabees; 2 Macabees; 1 Esdras; The Prayer of Manasseh; Psalm 151; 3 Macabees; 2 Esdras; 4 Macabees.

Regular Bible books:

Old Testament:

Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; Numbers; Deuteronomy; Joshua; Judges; Ruth; 1 Samuel; 2 Samuel 1 Kings; 2 Kings; 1 Chronicles; 2 Chronicles; Ezra; Nehemiah; Esther; Job; Psalms; Proverbs; Ecclesiastes; Song of Solomon; Isaiah; Jeremiah; Lamentations; Ezekiel; Daniel; Hosea; Joel; Amos; Obadiah; Jonah; Micah; Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah; Haggai; Zechariah; Malachi.

New Testament:

Matthew; Mark; Luke; John; Acts; Romans; 1 Corinthians; 2 Corinthians; Galatians; Ephesians; Philippians; Colossians; 1 Thessalonians; 2 Thessalonians; 1 Timothy; 2 Timothy; Titus; Philemon; Hebrews; James; 1 Peter; 2 Peter; 1 John; 2 John; 3 John; Jude; Revelations.

KJV 2Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 That the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Pet 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophesy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophesy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophesy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

• I do not need to prove creation and the Almighty Mind that created it for it is proof unto itself! However, for those who dispute the Bible as being the word of God or that God even exists, but lean to the assumption that everything evolved, let me ask you, if we evolved, what did we evolve from? Who came into existence first, the chicken or the egg? You cannot have an egg without a hen, just as you cannot have a creation without a Creator!

As God asked Job long ago, He is asking us today, Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? (Job 38:4) We did not witness creation; we are simply part of it, albeit a very important part of it. We alone of all created beings are made in the image of God! Not in the image of Apes! Again in Job 38:5 God asks, "Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched a line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or who shut up the sea with the doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? (Job 38:4-41 continues to ask us about the knowledge and understanding of creation. In Job 42 we find Job’s answer.)

Job 42:1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said, 2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be witholden from thee. 3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

KJV Ps. 40:5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

• A great number of scientists claim that the proportion of the earth and the creation of life is merely an accident. Job 38:4-41 describes God’s immaculate forethought and action in creation, taking into account all the heavenlies and all that dwells therein. Yes, I agree it probably did take millions or even billions of our years to create but our time did not start until the fourth day of creation when the sun and the moon and the stars were created which cover the seasons, days and years of our time. The first three days were of God’s time! To God, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. That does not mean that to God a day is a thousand years of our time, rather, it is like a thousand years of our time. That is to say it could indeed have been billions of years of our time! (Similar to in magnitude = largeness, size and importance giving a measure of lamination). Back in the days when the first records were kept, man, in all probability, could not have even conceived of a billion years of time and would, in all probability not even have conceived of God as a Spirit Being, permeating and sustaining all life! From the tiniest microbe to the vastness of the universe, all are sustained by the Spirit of God!!! Just as God sustains life He also gives knowledge and understanding and He tells in His word that in the latter days we will have all knowledge. Whatever we can imagine, God has already created in the new world! There is nothing new under the sun!

If people, as little as 100 years ago were to be told that mankind would be travelling by the thousands in jumbo jets from one side of the world to the other, let alone daily, they would have laughed at such a notion! Let alone space travel!

In Ezekiel we see his attempt to explain the craft he saw (Ez. 1:4-28). Ezekiel did not have any concept of flying, or of aircraft or spacecraft in his day and therefore described what he saw according to his limited understanding of the day. God also tells in Ez 2:7 that he (Ezekiel) will speak God’s words to mankind and that they will not necessarily heed them. Ezekiel is still speaking God’s words to us today and just as predicted, few heed them. Ezekiel was taken up by the spirit craft.

KJV Ez 3:12-14 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place. 13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.

• The fact that it had wheels and wings suggests it was an aircraft of some kind.

Ez 3:14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

• God made Ezekiel a watchman in the house of Israel.

KJV Ez 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Ez 38:14 Therefore, mortal, prophesy, and say to Gog: Thus says the Lord God; On that day when my people Israel are living securely, you will rouse yourself 15 and come from your place out of the remotest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great hoard, a mighty army; 16 you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I display my holiness before their eyes. 17 Thus says the Lord God: are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them? 18 On that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, says the Lord God, my wrath shall be aroused. 19 For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare: on that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all human beings that are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. 21 I will summon the sword against Gog in all my mountains, says the Lord God; the swords of all will be against their comrades. 22 With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgement with him; and I will pour down torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulphur, upon him and his troops and the many peoples that are with him. 23 So I will display my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I AM THE LORD.

• God speaks of a great army that covers the land in the latter days like a cloud! (fighter craft, bombers etc)

• ‘All of them riding on horses’ (tanks, troop carriers and armoured vehicles (driven by ‘horsepower’) i.e. engines)

• Many Bible analysts believe that ‘Gog’ speaks of Russia, although without proof. (out of the remotest parts of the north)

• ‘And many peoples with you’ and ‘A great hoard and a mighty army’ suggests it is a coalition of nations.

• ‘Torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulphur’ gives a picture of war, perhaps nuclear war.

Dictionary:

God is Omnipotent = having infinite power; having absolute power.

Omnipresent = present everywhere at the same time: widely or constantly encountered.

Omniscient = having infinite knowledge.

Infinite = Boundless; endless; innumerable; greater than any assignable quantity or quality.

NRSV Jn. 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and without Him, not one thing came into being. 4 In Him was life and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it! NRSV

Wisdom’s part in creation:

NRSV Prov. 8:22 The Lord created me at the beginning of His work, the first of His acts long ago. 23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first before the creation of the earth! 24 When there were no depths I was brought forth when there were no springs abounding with water, 25 before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth 26 When He had not yet made the earth and fields, or the world’s first bits of soil 27 When He established the heavens, I was there, when He drew a circle on the face of the deep. 28 When He made firm the skies above, when He established the fountains of the deep, 29 when He assigned the sea to its limit, so that the water might not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth. 30 Then I was beside Him like a master worker (some other translations read ‘Master and director of the work’: or ‘Architect’) and I was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always 31 rejoicing in His inhabited world and delighting in the human race. 35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favour from the Lord; 36 but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death! NRSV

• So we have established that in the beginning was the Father who was also the Word and the Son; and Wisdom, the created daughter or feminine side of God as a personification of God, as the Son is a personification of God. Then God created the universe and everything in it by the Word according to the design of Wisdom!

NRSV Gen.1:1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was formless and void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, let there be light; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness and God called the light day, and the darkness He called night and there was evening and morning the first day. NRSV

• This was a day of God’s timing, which could have amounted to any length of time as we know it, for time as we know it did not begin until the fourth day.

• Now. Take note here that the light God first created was not coming from the sun because the sun had not yet been created. The first three days of God’s creation were in God’s timing which could have accounted for millions of our years thereby answering the question of the age of the earth being millions of years old, as opposed to 6000 years of our recorded time. On the second day of God’s creation in God’s timing He created the dome and called it sky and separated the waters under the dome (sky) from the waters above the dome (sky). On the third day of God’s time He created the earth, separating the waters under the dome into one place. So, originally, before the flood, all the earth was together in one place and the seas were together in one place!

KJV Is.40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.

• Other versions state that the earth is a circle or dome.

• Thus the Bible states that the earth is indeed round.

NRSV Gen 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear". And it was so. 10 God called the dry land earth, and the waters that were gathered together He called seas. 11 Then God said, Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it. NRSV

• This was the third day (of God’s time!)

Gen. 1:6 And God said, Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. 7 So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. 8 God called the dome sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. NRSV

• Thus the Bible states that the earth indeed is round! EVERYTHING we can conceive of is already in existence somewhere within creation!

• Now. When Adam was created, no plants existed. God created Adam, forming him out of the dust of the ground (He did not speak Adam into existence) and then He planted a garden in Eden, of fruit-bearing trees and took Adam and put him in the garden! Thus Adam was made on the third day not the sixth day because everything God created after Adam, He brought to Adam to name! It was on the sixth day they ‘(let us make man)’ created mankind male and female. But Adam did not have a mate of his own because Adam was different from the rest of mankind! Therefore God put him to sleep and performed the first operation and removed his rib, fashioned Eve from Adam just as Wisdom was created from God, wherefore she is not higher or above God for that which is created cannot exist before the Creator! There is a twofold principal in the Bible. What is created on earth is a copy or likeness of what already exists in heaven! Adam was created in the likeness of the Father. Eve was created in the likeness of Wisdom! When they created mankind it is speaking of the God-head as the Father, Son and Wisdom; the Son and Daughter being extensions of the Father. (He who has seen the Son has seen the Father.)

NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION: The Wisdom of Solomon:

NRSV Wis. 1:6 For Wisdom is a kindly Spirit. 6:12 Wisdom is radiant and unfading and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her. 13 She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her.17 The beginning of Wisdom is the most sincere desire for instruction; and concern for instruction is love for her. 18 And love for her is the keeping of her laws, and giving heed to her laws is assurance of immortality. 7:21 I learned both what is secret and what is manifest, 22 for Wisdom, the fashioner of all things (architect) taught me. 23 There is in her a spirit that is intelligent and holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable; loving the good, keen, irresistible, beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all spirits that are intelligent, pure and altogether subtle. 24 For Wisdom is more mobile than any motion, because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things. 25 For she is the breath of the power of God and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her. 26 For she is the reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God and an image of His goodness. 27 Although she is but one she can do all things and while remaining in herself she renews all things, in every generation she passes into Holy Souls and she makes them friends of God and Prophets. 28 For God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with Wisdom. 29 She is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars. Compared with