Thus Saith the LORD

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Exodus 4:22 says, “ And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:”

     Part of my veteran’s care has a multitude of counselors of various types including nutrition, social workers and even a psychologist.  I get asked a lot of questions, most of them, similar as to if I want to hurt myself or others or “how does that make you feel?”  As they probe my brain and thinking process, they don’t offer too much advice but just ask more questions and then write short sentences down in a little notebook.  Little comments come now and then which seem to want to challenge my belief system by speaking of “higher criticism” and who wrote what and when as far as the Bible is concerned.  My thoughts are, “Been there.  Done that.”  

     The above quote is the first time that the phrase, “Thus saith the LORD:” appears in the Bible.  It is then found about four hundred and thirty times in the Scriptures in the King James Version.  In the above passage, God is giving Pharaoh a message and Moses and Aaron are quoting what God has promised.  As Paul said to the Corinthians, an unbeliever can’t understand spiritual things because they are not spiritual themselves and are looking at the same writings through unspiritual eyes.  It’s like trying to scratch an itch that a person can’t reach.  People today are not the first ones to try to discredit the Bible as it has been attempted for years but no one has succeeded.  The Word of God still stands as God’s letter to mankind.  If you want to know God, then look in the Bible.  If you want to know where you came from, look in the Bible.  If you want to know why you are here, look in the Bible.  If you want to know where you will spend eternity, look in the Bible.  If you want to know what God thinks about certain areas of our culture, just look and see what He says in the Bible after the words, “Thus saith the LORD.”  One of the difficulties for people is that there are few testimonies of what happens after death.  Those that do appear now and then are questionable so mankind is willing to take a chance that God will be letting everyone into heaven but that is not what “Thus saith the LORD” said in His Word.  Everlasting life, or eternal life as we might say it , is for believers and not for unbelievers.  You can see that in John 3:16.  There is a choice and I put my choice in the sixty six books of the Bible.  While many choose to gamble on eternity, I choose to go with the “sure thing;” the Word of God.  Praise God for the B I B L E!!