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Pamphlet 1427 Hos kc 7-6

Most of our preachers and ministers either cannot understand the simplicity of what happened in the garden of Eden or they won't teach it because it's controversial, lest they offend members of their congregations.
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Many preachers and ministers, with all their sheepskins and Degrees of Divinity and Doctorates of Theology, cannot understand the simplicity of what happened in the garden of Eden. They present the Word of God to the people as being full of mysteries that only they, the learned, can understand.

Isaiah 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
You should hear the many "stupid" interpretations of the Book of Revelation by these so-called learned men of the cloth. Oh well, anyone who thinks a garden snake can trick someone into eating an apple cannot be expected to possess much in the way of spiritual understanding, can they?

So let's take the Good Book to a layman of the church:

[12] And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
The church member who has perhaps sat in a pew faithfully each week for 30 or 40 years says, "You will have to ask the minister, the learned man, what this verse means." And so it continues with the blind leading the blind!
[13] Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
They sing praises and give glory to God, but they "have none understanding", i.e. their heart is removed ("taken away" as in Hos. 4:11), because all they know about God is what they have learned through the traditions of men! And that is BAD FRUIT!

Again, many, many good natured Christians have attended church and Sunday school for years and years and yet they are still completely Biblically illiterate. Why? You know why, because of the famine Amos told us about, (see Amos 8:11) because the Word of God is not taught to them chapter by chapter and line by line.

How can a person understand the Book of Hosea if they do not know the basic principles of His Word, like what happened in the garden?

How long have you been a Christian? Have you gotten to the meat of His Word?

Here is what Paul has to say about many churchgoers:

Hebrews 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Our people sit in church pews and sing songs and give praise but they learn NOTHING. Their church is therefore a "House of Emptiness" which is "Beth-aven" in Hebrew. "Beth" means "house" in Hebrew. So Beth-el is "House of God", Beth-lehem is "House of Bread", etc.
[13] For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
If you are unskillful in the Word of God, of how much use can you be to you Father? How could you possibly "dress and keep" His garden and "sow and reap" in His field, if you do not even know His instructions, much less "do" them?
[14]But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Unless you "take heed" to the Word of God and follow Him, neither shall you be able to tell the difference between the Good Tree and the Bad Tree. Again, most Christians today eat exactly the same fruit Adam and Eve ate and they do not even know it!

Their day of shame is soon coming!

Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
"Stocks and staffs" are symbolic of "idolatry" and "divining rods" that people turn to for counsel and comfort instead of God's Word. Did you know an idol can be a church or a religion that even calls itself "Christian"?

Did you know that when Satan is cast out of heaven to this earth (Rev. 12:7-9) he will call himself "Jesus"?

You see, any spirit that is not of God and does not align with His Word is a "spirit of whoredoms" which cause God's people to err and go "whoring from under their God".

Have you ever read what Jesus told the scribes and Pharisees, the religious leaders of the people, in Matthew 22:29 concerning erring? "Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God."

To that end we are instructed in 1 John 4:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." There are a bunch of "bad trees" out there who will cause you to be seduced.

Our Father says "Test them" ALL with the Word of God before you believe them.

You can either take heed to that command or take your chances and "wing it".

Good luck!

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.


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