FORGET THE PAST!--Work Now & Study the Future!
DFO 1598
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1. THE TIME FOR STUDYING ALL THIS ANCIENT HISTORY IN THESE LAST DAYS IS OVER! I don't think anybody's got time to study this kind of past history like ancient history & Old Testament & even New Testament history, like all the journeys of Samuel & the whole life of Saul & all his travels & all those details! I only went into the Bible in Pictures to give my own little children when they were small the basic knowledge of Bible History.
2. FRANKLY, I THINK WE ARE TOO INVOLVED IN THIS MODERN TIME & TOO INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE to be worrying about the past! I can give you a Scripture for it! "Forget the things that are behind, press forward to the things that are before & the high calling of God in Christ Jesus!" (Ph.3:13,14)
3. THE DAY FOR STUDYING THE TABERNACLE & THE ANCIENT TEMPLE & ANCIENT JERUSALEM & ALL THAT JUNK IS OVER! It is past! To concentrate people on Ancient History & Jewish History I honestly believe is a promotion by Jewish Christians who want to promote interest in the past & the Old Testament. Today, this time, this last hour of history when things are winding up & we have very little time to finish the job, for God's sake, we don't have time to study ancient history, especially ancient Biblical history & Old Testament History!
4. ALL THE HISTORY THAT WE NEED, WE HAVE ALREADY PUBLISHED IN 7000 YEARS OF WORLD HISTORY & IN THE BIBLE IN PICTURES. That's all the ancient Bible History we need & all the maps & the whole works. We don't need any more ancient history! (Maria: Do you suggest they study the New Testament?) Well, of course, the New Testament is a very short, simple Book all about Jesus & Love & a blast of condemnation against the Jews!
5. I SAID READ THE BIBLE, I DIDN'T SAY STUDY IT IN DETAIL! You needn't know it, just read it & let the Holy Spirit tell you what She wants to tell you about it! I don't think you even need to read the Old Testament any more, frankly. I told you all you need to know, except if you want to read it for devotions, especially the Devotional & Poetic Books like Psalms & Proverbs & Job. The only things you need to get out of the Bible any more are the moral & spiritual lessons & instruction, but not all this historical, geographical & genealogical detail & endless ancient history! You don't need all these outlines & the Books of the Bible outlined for you, why don't you just read it?
6. THIS IS SOMETHING TO SIDETRACK PEOPLE TO GET INTO THINGS ABOUT THE BIBLE INSTEAD OF STUDYING THE BIBLE! It's like knowing all about Jesus without knowing Him. In ancient times that was all they had to do. But right now we're in the End & we're far more interested in the Future than all of the past which is gone, & there's nothing you can do about it except to learn the lessons of what not to do!
7. WE DON'T HAVE TO GO INTO PROPHECIES FULFILLED IN JESUS' DAY! They have already been fulfilled & it's finished! Jesus said, "It's finished!" (Jn.19:30) And Paul said, "Forget those things that are behind!"
8. THAT KIND OF MATERIAL IS GOING BACKWARDS!--WE'RE TRYING TO GO FORWARDS! Forget the past! Let's go forward! Let's concentrate on the now & the Future & get our job done & stop wasting time on the kind of stuff the Church has been involved in & Bible Colleges & the past-worshipping Jews!
9. THE BIBLE IN PICTURES WAS ENOUGH, & ALL THE REST I'VE TOLD THEM, THAT'S ENOUGH!--And all the rest that FC has already produced for them is enough! We've already given them almost too much Bible History & Bible Study & Bible detail, too much, & the day for that is over, it's past! I wouldn't even recommend reading the Bible in Pictures any more! That's ancient history! I don't think they need any more basic teaching in the Bible than that, if that! But I hate to have them totally ignorant of the Bible, so I have tried to give our Family & our children at least a brief synopsis of Bible History & to hit the highlights & the highspots & to give them the most important stories & lessons learned from it, & that's all they need, no more. Period!
10. THE ONLY REASON WE EVEN STUDY BIBLE HISTORY & ANCIENT HISTORY IS TO FIND OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PROPHECIES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN FULFILLED, which encourages your faith, & the Prophecies which are yet to be fulfilled, which are to thrill & inspire you for the Future, that's all! I think the children are better off to study the Gospels & the New Testament just like it is, book-by-book, story-by-story, not just pick out the kind of stories you want to read. (Maria: For little children like our little children?) Yes.--Or you might miss a lot of things that you actually need.
11. EVEN THE LIFE OF CHRIST & THE BOOK OF ACTS & SOME OF THAT IS ALL ANCIENT HISTORY--WE'RE LIVING THE BOOK OF ACTS TODAY! They can read the Books of Psalms & Proverbs & things which are up-to-date, things that apply to today, about your spiritual life & your everyday living & spiritual lessons & praise to the Lord, as well as lots of prophecy about the Future in the prophetic books, but we certainly don't need to go delving into the depths of ancient times!
12. (MARIA: THAT'S QUITE A RELIEF THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO STUDY THE BIBLE!) I mean, you're quoted about all the Old Testament you need to know in the New Testament, & if you want to know about fulfilled prophecy & Jesus, just read Matthew!--He quotes them all, all you need to know! That's what Matthew's for, a Book to convince the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.
13. WE'RE NOT HAIR-SPLITTING THEOLOGIANS, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO INTO ALL OF EVEN PAUL'S DETAILED DOCTRINAL THEOLOGICAL STUDIES. But I still say that the reading of the New Testament, especially the Life of Christ & particularly the Gospel of John, is very helpful to new Christians, & I think they'd almost be better off if they didn't get tangled up in the Epistles of the Apostles! They get in some big doctrinal arguments there between Paul & Peter & some of the rest of them! (Maria: And even things contrary to what we believe now!) Yes!
14. I'M TELLING YOU, THEY WILL GET ALL THE BIBLE THEY NEED TO KNOW IF THEY JUST READ THE MO LETTERS, (Maria: Well, that's sure a relief! I've always felt guilty I didn't read the Bible!) There are volumes & volumes of True Komix about true stories & true things that God has given us today, for today, for teaching the children, so why would they go back into that analytical study of ancient history? (Maria: I think the Bible in Pictures got some started on that track, & they thought that was what they were supposed to emphasise in their teaching.) So why don't we just learn about now & about what the Future is & what we're about to get into, that's what we need to study!
15. I MEAN, IF THE DEVIL CAN'T KEEP YOU FROM DOING THE BEST THING, HE TRIES TO SIDETRACK YOU INTO WASTING YOUR TIME ON SOMETHING THAT HE MAKES YOU THINK IS GOOD!--Like all this ancient history & analytical study of the past & ancient Bible gory gruesome Jewish history & all that junk! My God, deliver us from that stuff! You don't even have enough time to study the MO Letters! You'd be better off going back & reading the old MO Letters if you want to read ancient history!--They've got a lot more to do with the present than that old stuff, especially all that kind of analytical study of the Bible.
16. THE CHURCHES HAVEN'T GOT ANY PRESENT, MUCH LESS ANY FUTURE, SO ALL THEY'VE GOT LEFT TO STUDY IS THE PAST, a bunch of has-beens, because the Church is a has-been! I mean, it's dead & it ought to be buried! Obviously it's not doing the Churches any good, just look at their fruits! What have they accomplished? What are they doing? If their kind of study results in no fruits & a fruitless church, an inactive church that's only active in junk like that & ancient history & activities that have nothing to do with witnessing or litnessing or winning souls or evangelising the World or preparing the World for the Future, why follow that kind of an example? But my God, the Lord has delivered us from all that, let's not get back into it!
17. AND IF THAT'S WHAT THE HALLEY'S BIBLE HANDBOOK HAS IN IT, WE OUGHT TO THROW IT AWAY! Halley's Handbook is so far off the beam & screwy on Bible prophecy, forget it! I'm sorry I ever recommended it. I just thought it was a book for poor simple people who knew nothing at all about the Bible, to get a quick Bible education in one little tiny book! Well, I've already given you your Bible education now, I've already written your Halley's Handbook & that's it, you don't need him any more! That was a temporary shortcut--now it's getting to be a short circuit!
18. MY GOD, THAT SO DEPRESSES ME LOOKING BACKWARD AT ALL THAT HISTORICAL ANCIENT ARCHAIC HISTORY JUNK, THAT IT ALMOST DISCOURAGES YOU! Why should we waste our time looking backwards & studying the past when we have all we can possibly do working in the present & studying the Future? Junk Halley!
19. WHY STUDY THE BIBLE? I've told you almost all you need to know & all the important Scriptures. I'll bet you'll find in my writings practically every important Scripture that needs to be quoted out of the Bible! We don't have time for it! We've only got a few years left to get the job done.
20. MY LORD! YOU KIDS ALREADY KNOW MORE ABOUT THE BIBLE THAN ANY OF THOSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS--FAR MORE!--More about the Old Testament & the New Testament & the whole works, & especially what it really means & how it actually applies to today & tomorrow than those Church Christians will ever know! You don't have to be ashamed or shy or embarrassed, you're smarter than the preachers!
21. GOD DELIVER US & HELP US TO GET OUT OF THAT & NOT GET BACK INTO IT & quit wasting our time on ancient history & ancient Bible History & all that stuff that I've already told you all you need to know about! If you want to get it, read the MO Letters.
22. YOU'D LEARN A LOT MORE ABOUT THE PRESENT AS WELL AS ABOUT THE PAST & THE BIBLE PLUS THE FUTURE BY JUST READING MO BOOKS! (Maria: Yes, of course, definitely!) I've spent the whole last 15 years of my life telling you all that you needed to know about the past & the Bible & Bible History & Bible Prophecy.
23. FOR GOD'S SAKE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO STUDY ANYTHING, STUDY WHAT GOD HAS HAD TO SAY TODAY! Why look backward to what He said way back yonder about people that made a mess of things & are done for?--The same people that are wrecking the World today!
24. WE ARE CONCERNED WITH THE JOB WE HAVE AT HAND RIGHT NOW OF TRYING TO EVANGELISE THE WORLD & get the job done quick in at least the next 10 years before we have to go!--And to prepare the World, at least our Family & Christians for the Future. The past is done-for & we're through with it & we don't have time to go look at it any more!
25. ALL THAT TO SAY THIS, I DON'T THINK OUR FAMILY NEEDS ANY MORE BIBLE STUDIES THAN WHAT ARE ALREADY IN THE MO LETTERS. If you have a little basic knowledge of the basics, basic Bible Knowledge, that's about all you need. I've taught you guys more than you need to know about it, & a lot of that stuff is almost pass now, it's too late to even learn that! We need to concentrate on the job right now, what we have to do, & we need to know more about the Future to prepare ourselves & the World for what's coming. We're too busy & the Future is too close!
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