The Unpreached Bible

By Avian Messenger

"The Unpreached Bible" offers biblical commentary with eighteen main topics. Covering important concepts ranging from Genesis and Noah's flood to the twelve apostles, this must-read book offers an in-depth look into some of the most fundamental topics of Christianity.

Historically accurate and thoroughly researched, this is an essential read for every Christian. Avian Messenger shares everything that you need to know to get a firm understanding of the Bible so that you could live as God intended. You will certainly be inspired by certain parts of this book – especially as Jesus and his performed miracles are discussed. You also will be enlightened and possibly even surprised by other parts – such as chapter seventeen that describes Satan, the Beast, and the false prophet.

Get your copy today and learn the Bible in its totality so that you could follow God's path and achieve ultimate salvation!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Dec 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781667812243

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter One Creation

Chapter Two Giants and Angels

Chapter Three Circumcision

Chapter Four Race

Chapter Five Homosexuality

Chapter Six Judges

Chapter Seven Saul, David, and Solomon

Chapter Eight Kings of Israel

Chapter Nine Kings of Judah

Chapter Ten Fate of the Captives

Chapter Eleven Christ’s Ministry

Chapter Twelve The Apostles

Chapter Thirteen Paul, Luke, Mark, and James

Chapter Fourteen Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

Chapter Fifteen Tribulation/No Rapture

Chapter Sixteen When

Chapter Seventeen Satan and the Beast

Chapter Eighteen Armageddon, and Gog and Magog

Epilogue

Bibliography

Introduction

Like many of you, my understanding of the Bible was quite deficient for much of my life. As a child attending Sunday school, I was taught inadequate renderings of the overused basic stories, and even some of the limited details of these accounts were incorrect. The adult church services also lacked sufficient scriptural material to improve my knowledge of the Bible. The pastors discussed more current events, personal opinions, and personal anecdotes than the word of God. Maybe, once every couple of months, a sermon was given from the scriptures that related to a holiday. And those same half dozen sermons would be dusted off and preached each and every year. I got as much or less Biblical instruction from the television and radio evangelists. They have two main goals: to entertain you with jokes, platitudes, and musical extravaganzas; and to get you to donate your money to their churches. Hollywood distorts Biblical stories to fit their agendas, and Madison Avenue minimalizes them to fit on a greeting card, or in a jingle, and prefers Santa, Frosty, and Peter Cottontail to Jesus. Of course, academia denies the scriptures, and bans them. And some governments even outlaw the Bible.

I was in my forties when I realized that the only way that I was going to know what was in the Bible was to read it. So, I started at Genesis and read through 2 Kings. Around that time, I started a business, which consumed just about all of my time and attention. It would be ten years before I made another attempt to read the Bible straight through. To be sure, there were times when I would pick up my Bible, to look up something that I had heard on the radio or TV. And I became involved with a Christian woman who enjoyed reading the scriptures, and reading them to me. I found this to be quite pleasant; however, she only read from the New Testament, and not in the order that the books were written. I was not satisfied with my understanding of the scriptures when read that way.

Even though I was still engrossed in my business, I decided to make another attempt to read the entire Bible in order from Genesis to Revelation. I began to carry my Bible with me to work every day, along with my lunch. My business required me to be on the road all day going from location to location, so I found quiet places along the route with trees, a pond, a lake, or a view of the gulf. Sometimes it would be a city park, a trailhead parking lot, or public parking on the beach. I would read for twenty to forty minutes, and then eat a quick snack. Then at night, just before I went to sleep, I would read another half hour. I averaged one hour a day, and believe me, that is all that it takes to read every word of the Bible in just one year. If I could find an hour each day, most likely anyone can. But if you are that rare person whose work schedule will not permit it, you could skip church services on Sunday, and devote seven hours to reading the word of God. This would also allow you to finish the Bible within a year. By the way, I am not the fastest reader, so you could easily read it in less time than it took me.

The first time that I read the Bible through, it was a New King James Version. After discovering that the King James Version was far more colorful, I read it the second time around. I found it a tiny bit more difficult to read, but much more entertaining, and that it paints a more accurate picture. I could feel the emotion of the stories, and easily transport myself into the scenes. In this commentary, the quotes will always be from the King James Version (KJV), unless noted otherwise. The punctuation may appear incorrect, and the spelling archaic, because I tried to keep the quote original. I did add quotation marks for clarification, because quotation marks are not used in the King James Version. Also, it does not capitalize the pronouns (He, His, Him) for God and Jesus, so neither did I. But I did capitalize them when using my own prose. Where words appear that are unknown to us now, I placed a modern word next to it in brackets. The main difference between our modern language and the KJV is the frequent addition of th or eth to familiar words. All of the quotations that I use will be followed by the coordinates (book, chapter, and verse) in brackets. If you are using the New King James Version, the quotation may be the same, may be a little different, or it may be completely different. But the overall meaning should be the same.

While on this literary expedition, I felt disbelief and frustration toward all of our institutions and our society in general for having been deprived of these incredible and marvelous tales of adventure. And I felt cheated by the inaccurate, incomplete, and dishonest portrayals of those stories in films that were taken from scriptures, but were barely recognizable compared to those written. Now that I have read the entirety of the Bible, I marvel at the number of errors in the religious movies long considered classics. And I see the deceit preached by televangelists and radio ministries. I view the theories taught by academia as pure lunacy (old earth, evolution, big bang). No one has ever offered any proof to support these theories, but few people question them even though they are constantly changed. The Bible is consistent, and I see its truth in every aspect of nature, and in contemplating the spiritual world. My eyes have been opened by reading the Bible. I hope that reading my book will be just the beginning of a revelation for my readers, a stepping stone for the scriptures, and a roadmap for the journey.

I must give this warning though, once a person learns the word of God, the desire to share it is overwhelming. Unfortunately, people who are ignorant of the word will be shocked, incredulous, and even hostile. As I am sure that many of my readers will also be. At least until they verify my words by looking them up in the Bible. I have made it easy to do so. Some people will not attempt to verify what I say, and others will reject what the Bible says no matter what. These people cannot be reached. And I expect to receive a great deal of condemnation from many organizations. My book, like the Bible, is not politically correct. Those who read either or both—and share them—will experience some of the same resentment. The Bible also warns us about this: And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow [Ecclesiastes 1:17–18]. But those same students of the Bible will also know the joy of finding fellowship with people who accept the message and appreciate it. Do not aggressively force your knowledge on people. Just calmly present it, and see who is interested. Do not be hurt by rejection, remember they are rejecting the word of God. And He has endured a great deal of rejection for a very long time.

Eventually, you will meet others that are knowledgeable about the word of God. When you do, try to form your own Bible study group. I think that eventually, you will find that to be the most rewarding experience. You may even get to the point where you plan group outings to Bible-based museums and theme parks (one of which has built a replica of Noah’s ark). Speak to your church leaders about sermons that are more Bible-based, or find a church that is more scripture centered. I also suggest that you study the doctrines of your church, and I recommend Nelson’s Guide to Denominations, by J. Gordon Melton.

Chapter One

Creation

Earth was created as a water planet by itself and nothing else on the first day. It was created in the dark. Then God said, Let there be light. But this was the light of His glory because He did not create the sun, moon, and stars until the fourth day. This corresponds to the Book of Revelation where it is stated that the sun, moon, and stars will be rolled up like a scroll and be destroyed, and a new earth will be illuminated by His glory. God gave the length of each day as one evening (or period of darkness) and one morning (period of light), and in that order. So, we know that history began in darkness. This makes sense because light needs something to reflect off of to be seen, unless staring directly into the source. But why would God even need to see to create? Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee [Psalm 139:12]. These first few lines of the Bible are the reason that the Hebrew belief is and has always been, that the day ends and a new one begins at sundown, not at midnight. They also dispel the idea that a day could be thousands, millions, or even billions of years long. During the 2016 Presidential debate, I remember one Republican candidate who was running as a devout Christian looked straight into the television camera and said, I don’t believe that the Bible states how long a day was then. I had to ask myself how this man could not have known better, when it is written on the first page of the first book of the Bible six times. Where did he begin reading the Bible? When I begin a book, I usually start on page one. So, the only thing created on the first day of history was a submerged earth with a set rotation speed that would give us the length of darkness and of light illuminated by His glory.

On the second day, He created the firmament (the atmosphere), and placed some of the water above it. But this was not in the form of clouds that float in the firmament ascending and descending to different heights. This was ice orbiting in space around the earth, and above the firmament, like the rings of Saturn, or more precisely like a bubble (canopy). Creation theorists have begun to lose faith in this view because it was suggested that people would not be able to see the stars for guidance through the canopy. This is nonsense. If the ice particles were small enough and spaced far enough apart, it would appear as a slight mist which we would be able to see stars through, just not as clearly. I believe that the firmament contained, from the beginning, both the carbon necessary for plant life and the oxygen for humans and animals to breathe. The firmament must have had both, but not combined as carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide gases. Plants are able to separate the two; humans and animals put these two elements together forming poisonous ethers. Our atmosphere contains the same amount of these elements, and at the same ratio as it did on day two of existence. They are simply filtered by plants and recycled. Our vegetation is not just capable of filtering the toxic gases formed by creatures breathing, but it can also clean up smoke, exhaust, and earthly emissions.

On the third day, God said, Let the waters under the heaven [atmosphere] be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so [Gen. 1:9]. There is more in these words than one might see in a casual reading. It does not say that any more water left the earth to join the canopy around it, nor that it became clouds. It says that these waters came together under the atmosphere, not in it or above it. Since water seeks its own level, there are only two ways that dry land could appear. Either, more water was removed, which was just dispelled, or the only other explanation, the earth was raised. But if it was, something must be lifting and supporting it from underneath, water. Yes, that’s right: God forced water into the mantel which hydraulically lifted the Earth’s crust.

In an article titled New Evidence for Oceans of Water Deep in the Earth, by Megan Fellman. Steven Jacobsen from Northwest University in Evanston, Ill., and Brandon Schmandt from the University of New Mexico stated in an interview that they had discovered a reservoir of water 400 miles beneath the earth’s surface between the upper and lower parts of the mantel called the transitional zone, which extends across most of the United States. It is comprised of a blue rock known as ringwoodite. Under extreme pressure and extensive heat, water fuses with the crystals of this mineral. According to Jacobsen:

I think we are finally seeing evidence for a whole-Earth water cycle, which may help to explain the vast amount of liquid water on the surface of our habitable planet. Scientists have been looking for this missing deep water for decades…. If just one percent of the weight of the mantel rock located in the transition zone is H2O, that would be equivalent to nearly three times the amount of water in our oceans [Earth magazine June 12, 2014/issue 2974].

This is more than enough water to cover Mt. Everest:

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth [Psalm 104:6–9].

I must point out another significant fact in verse nine and that is that the waters were, gathered together unto one place, and the singular word land is used, not lands. This indicates that there was just one large ocean, and only one large land mass, the continent of Pangea. And unto Eber [the first Hebrew] were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided [Gen. 10:25]. Peleg means division. Luke misspells Peleg as Phalec in his genealogy of Mary (Luke 3:35). Note that this verse states that the earth was divided, and not the nations or peoples. Some people want to interpret this as referring to the separating of the nations by creating many new languages. But that event had already happened at Babel two generations earlier.

Once the land was no longer submerged, God created life with it in the form of plants and trees. Since He had created the atmosphere the day before, they could breathe. And they could eat of the earth from which their components came. But plants also need fresh water to survive. Verses five and six of the second chapter of Genesis tells us, The Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth…. [b]ut there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. Verse ten also states A river went out of Eden to water the garden. This confirms that the water above the firmament were not clouds, and the source of rivers was not rain. So, some of the waters forced underground were returning (and I am certain that this is a cycle that continues to this day).

On the fourth day, God set His earthly chores aside, and concentrated on the rest of the universe: the sun, moon, and stars. The Bible says that the sun and moon are for illumination and the telling of days and time. It says that the stars are for signs and seasons. The word signs does not mean astrology, which is forbidden (Deut. 4:19, and again in Deut. 17:2–5 [where the punishment is stated to be stoning to death]), rather they are indications that prophecies are about to be fulfilled. The Bible tells us that prophecies are given to us so that we cannot give credit for God’s miracles to false gods (Is. 48:5). And of course, stars are also navigational markers to find our way around on this planet, and seasonal signs to tell us when to plant crops or move herds.

The fifth day of creation, God made birds and the creatures of the sea. Just for perspective, birds were the first land animals, and whales were the first mammals. And two days before He made them, He made plants (on land and in water) for them to have something to eat on the first day of their lives. Like the plants, they could also breathe of the firmament, birds could fly through it, and let’s not forget that it made sound possible. The day before making birds and marine life, He made the sun, moon, and stars so that the birds and whales would have sight and some sense of direction.

The sixth day He created every other land creature, saving man (actually woman) for the last, so that when Adam and Eve were created, the world was completely prepared for them, providing everything that they would need (I recommend Paradise Lost by John Milton). If God had made Adam and Eve on day one, they would have been floating naked in the water, blind, with nothing to eat, no fresh water to drink, and no air to breathe. Genesis had reasoned order.

How many of His creations did God create at Genesis? We know that He created only two humans. How many of each of the other species did He create? How many birds, fish, horses, dogs, and cats, etc. Why did He command them to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, if He had already filled the earth with vast numbers of them? Why create a world of abundant life if there were only two humans who could never witness all of it? Remember that Adam and Eve were vegetarians as were all other creatures. There was no hunting. There was no disease. There was no death before the curse. If God had created each species in vast numbers, the earth would have been shortly overwhelmed.

If the rest of the world was as lush as the Garden of Eden, then exile from it would be no punishment. But remember that the Bible says that Adam would have to toil in the soil, and bring forth food from the sweat of his brow. I maintain that when God created the world that it was a world of one super continent that was totally barren except for the Garden. That there were only two of each species of animals (just like the animals aboard Noah’s ark). And that the population of the earth took place at a speed corresponding to the spread of plant seeds which most likely preceded animal and human reproduction by a very short period. As the seeds of Eden spread out across the land, human and animal populations followed. And the same thing was taking place in the ocean (two whales; two tuna; two octopi; etc.). I would point out that even today the majority of the oceans are barren, with plant and marine creatures existing only within 200 miles of land masses. Some migratory species (whales for example) will endure the journey across the vast sterile waters, but they suffer the pangs of starvation along the way.

I would like to challenge the theory of Clarence Larkin, Scofield, Darby, and others that the earth was created, destroyed, and recreated at least once and possibly many times before Adam. Their entire theory is based on one word only, replenish. In Genesis 1:28, Adam and Eve are told to replenish the Earth. In the original Hebrew (according to Strong’s Concordance) the word that was incorrectly translated into English as replenish should be translated as male. The Hebrews would use the word male for the word propagate, because the male (rooster, stag, stud, bull, man, etc.) is responsible for impregnation. Every other word in Genesis indicates that the creation at the time of Adam was a first-time event: light did not exist, yet (Gen. 1:2–3); there was no atmosphere prior to this event (Gen. 1:6–8); God set the planets in their position (Gen. 1:17); the ground had never held seeds before (Gen. 2:5); God formed Adam of the dust of the ground (Gen. 2:7), not from the flesh of another human, as Eve was; the words, "fill the waters in the seas," were used by God when