DON'T FORGET ALL THE PAST!       DFO1691          12/83

         1. I SAID FORGET THE PAST! BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU'RE JUST TO FORGET EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER LEARNED ABOUT THE PAST! You're supposed to know something & you'd be pretty dumb if you didn't! I expect you to know some Bible History & some World History & if you don't know both you can't very well understand the future & you won't ever understand or be able to interpret Bible Prophecy.
         2. SO DON'T CARRY THAT TO THE EXTREME, RIDICULOUS LIMIT & FORGET THE PAST TILL YOU FORGET EVERYTHING! I'm still quoting Bible, Beloved, both Old & New Testament, & it's still an authority to me! It means a whole lot to me & the Bible was the basis of my faith. So don't go tossing away your Bibles & thinking you don't even need Bibles any more & you don't need to memorise Scriptures any more, you don't need to be able to quote Bible any more. That's the basic Book, really!
         3. ACTUALLY, I'VE BROUGHT YOU TO BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE. It's still the basic foundation of our faith & I still use it as documentation & confirmation of whatever the Lord shows us.
         4. I STILL SAY IT'S THE YARDSTICK OF MEASUREMENT, THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS BY WHICH WE MEASURE EVERYTHING ELSE GOD HAS EVER GIVEN US. There'll be nothing contrary to the Bible in the revelations God has given today to what He's already shown, except that He fills in a lot more of the picture, a lot more pieces of the puzzle. He gives you a lot of details & clearer things that you never had before.--Not contrary to the Bible but more like a fulfilling or a filling up of the gaps & spaces that were not filled in before. A lot of that Bible is still present & a lot of it's still future!
         5. SOME PEOPLE NEED THE BIBLE & SOME PEOPLE NEED MO, & FRANKLY, I THINK THE FAMILY NEEDS BOTH! So don't go throwing away your Bibles just because I said forget the past! I'm talking about all this detailed, infinite, intricate study of all these little tiny details of ancient Old Testament Bible History. That's the kind of stuff we don't need to know & we don't need to teach our kids to know anything about!
         6. BUT WHERE THE BIBLE EXAMPLES & LESSONS STILL APPLY AS ILLUSTRATING GOOD & EVIL, WHAT'S GOOD & WHAT'S BAD, THEN THEY STILL MAKE GOOD ILLUSTRATIONS & STORIES! Children require a lot of stories & you can get lots of stories out of the Bible. I think you can still teach'm the basic main Bible stories about good kings like David & bad kings like Saul & a lot of wonderful things in the Bible, good stories, thrilling stories, illustrating good & evil, right & wrong!
         7. (MARIA: EVEN IN HEATHEN RELIGIONS THEY STILL RESPECT THE BIBLE AS BEING THE BOOK OF THE GREATEST RELIGION WITH THE MOST FOLLOWERS IN THE WORLD, CHRISTIANITY, so you need to know a little something about it, because they may even know more than you do!) You're going to be pretty stupid & ignorant!--Especially if you go out in the World witnessing & the sinners can quote you more Bible than you can quote them! And a lot of them still have faith in the Bible, in God & even in Jesus, & if you can't prove it by the Bible, they're not going to believe you.
         8. SO PLEASE DON'T FORGET ALL THE PAST!--Just the parts that are no longer relevant to the present or Future! You need a little past to understand both present & future!--Amen? Use it!--But don't abuse it! GBAKY living in all of His great eternal NOW!--In Jesus' name, amen!--Amen?--ILY!--D.

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