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“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17) August 2016
Oceans of Blood
By Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
“Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah . . . Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments
like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress
alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them
in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day
of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come”
(Isa. 63:1–4).
“For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury
upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered
them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink
shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted
with their blood . . . . The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is
made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea . . . and their land shall be
soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. For it is the
day of the LORD’S vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the
controversy of Zion” (Isa. 34:2–8).
What you just read is an account of Jesus Christ coming at the Second
Advent to stomp on 200 million UN troops (Rev. 9:16) until the blood runs
five feet deep for 184 miles (Rev. 14:20). That’s not “highly figurative, apoca-
lyptic” language. That’s literally going to take place in the next several years
(Zech. 14; Rev. 19).
Now, I understand that the subject of blood is an unsavory one. To
some people, the very thought of blood makes them sick. Nevertheless,
blood is an important thing to you from the time you are born to the time you
die. Leviticus 17:11 says, “the life of the flesh is in the blood.” The Lord
told Noah, “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be
shed” (Gen. 9:6).
It wasn’t until 1939 that the two clotting agents of the blood, Vitamin K
and Prothrombin, were discovered to be at their peak on the eighth day after
a child was born. That is why God commanded those Jews to circumcise
their baby boys on the eighth day (Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3).
The word blood occurs 447 times in 375 verses of your Bible. The first
time is connected with murder—“the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth
unto me from the ground” (Gen. 4:10). The last time is where the Lord
comes back and has “a vesture dipped in blood” (Rev. 19:13).
Blood is inseparable from true, Biblical Christianity. You may not like it,
but the fact of the matter is, Christianity is a bloody religion, and that Bible is
a bloody Book. That is one of the things that separates Biblical Christianity
(I am not talking about some fake kind over in Rome that pretends to turn
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COOPERATION—
The Way to Hell
By Dr. Peter S. Ruckman to tell my students a lot of things I say
“And hath made of one blood about the King James Bible. We would
all nations of men for to dwell on lose students because there would be
all the face of the earth, and hath kids from homes where the families
determined the times before ap- use anywhere from two to four differ-
pointed, and the BOUNDS of their ent Bible versions. Those kids, even
habitation; That they should seek if they did believe the AV, would be
the Lord, if haply they might feel in constant conflict with their families
after him, and find him, though he over the Book. So I wouldn’t be able to
be not far from every one of us” say what I say about the KJV because
(Acts 17:26–27). some momma or daddy who pays for
This passage gives the Biblical the kid’s tuition would get hurt feelings.
purpose of division (segregation, In addition, I would butt heads
separation, boundaries). Verse 26 with anywhere from ten to fifty faculty
says God set up boundaries between members. There would be teachers
men for the purpose of them seeking and professors there, who graduated
the Lord. So when any man is involved from big Fundamental and Conserva-
in “breaking down walls” and “build- tive institutions, who would be hung
ing bridges” between nations, races, up on the ASV or NASV; I wouldn’t be
tribes, etc., which God has separated, able to critique those “sacred cows”
then that person is preventing people lest I cause a “stir” among the faculty.
from finding Christ. Here is another example. If I got up
Now don’t misunderstand me. before the United Nations, I wouldn’t
There’s nothing wrong with a mission- dare preach anything I preach or
ary crossing a boundary to preach the teach here at the Bible Baptist Church
Gospel; that is a command of Jesus or the Pensacola Bible Institute unless
Christ (Matt. 28:19–20; Mark 16:15; I wanted to cause an “international
Acts 1:8). But removing men and incident.” I couldn’t talk about Jesus
women from the boundaries in which Christ being the only way to God
God has placed them for social, eco- (John 14:6; Acts 4:12) because there
nomic, religious, or political reasons, would be Moslems and Buddhists
sooner or later, results in a loss of there. I couldn’t talk about Heaven or
truth that prevents them from finding Hell because there would be Socialists
Jesus Christ as Saviour. and atheists there.
The more boundaries are broken You see, the more sinners of differ-
down between groups, the more they ent backgrounds you get together, the
are mixed together, the less truth less truth you can put out. As people
that is available. Let me illustrate. If get together by the increase of trans-
the Pensacola Bible Institute were portation and communication, truth
Tennessee Temple University or Bob has to go by the wayside.
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JOSHUA COMMENTARY
A commentary based
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the first of the historical
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historical accuracy of
the conquest of Canaan
under Israel’s greatest
General and the mira-
cles associated with it.
Special attention is giv-
en to the prophetic ap-
plication of the book to
the Second Advent and
to the practical applica-
tions that can be made
to the Christian’s spiritual warfare against the world,
the flesh, and the Devil. The geography of the book is
tied in to associated events in the rest of the Old Testa-
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The First
Missionary Journey
By Mike Dobbins (Part Two of Three)
(Editor’s note: The first installment in this series of articles covered the
use and origins of the words apostle and missionary, and how modern mis-
sionaries are not the “apostles” of Ephesians 4:11. This article takes up the
process of becoming a missionary.)
The Sending of the Missionaries
In Acts 13, the Bible says two times that Paul and Barnabas were
“sent.” Verse 3: “. . . they sent them away”; verse 4: “So they, being
sent forth by the Holy Ghost . . . .” Note that there are two sending agents
in Acts 13: in verse 3, the members of the local church fast, pray, lay their
hands on the missionaries, and send them forth; in verse 4, the Holy Ghost
sends them forth. In the New Testament, the precedent is set to have both
the church and the Holy Ghost do the “sending” in order for the missionary
to be sent out properly.
Some may ask, “What if I know the Holy Ghost has called me to be a
missionary, but no one will send me out or lay hands on me?” Then one of
two or three things is happening. Either that particular man on whom no one
will “lay hands” is in too big of a hurry (1 Tim. 5:22), or he is unstable (Gen.
49:4; James 1:8) and problematic enough that the leadership recognizes it.
But perhaps the man is truly called, and the leadership he is under
has little or no concern for a zealous, God-called man. In other words, the
man might be too hard to control, so the man-made “stamp of approval” is
not forthcoming. Normally, it is easy to ascertain whether the problem is the
man or the leadership. Some time for observation and a Bible are usually
the elements needed to get to the bottom of the problem.
Now when we talk about men being sent around the world from a local
church, there is a progression that normally takes places. The progression
corresponds with four groups of people in the local church.
Listeners
The first group in which the prospective missionary finds himself, while
attending the local church, is the group we will call “Listeners.” The Listen-
ers do just that when they come to church: they listen. Every pastor and
preacher appreciates the people who will come and “listen” to the sermon.
But unfortunately for most of the Listeners, that is all they do: they just listen
and do nothing else.
Ezekiel 33:31 says, “And they come unto thee as the people co-
meth, and they sit before thee as my people, AND THEY HEAR THY
WORDS, BUT THEY WILL NOT DO THEM: for with their mouth they
shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.”
It’s a bad problem if you come to church and listen, and do not “do” the
word while choosing, rather, to go after covetousness. The New Testament
is clear: if you hear the word, you should be a doer “of the word” and con-
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tinue in it (James 1:22–25). But most who listen to the word nowadays are
“hearers only.” Very few listeners grow to become Learners or Laborers.
Learners
From the group of “Listeners,” there will be some who become “Learn-
ers.” The Learners are characterized by always taking notes and “marking”
their Bibles. Men in this group make a concentrated effort to read, memo-
rize, and study the Bible in their spare time. Sometimes this means they
enter organized Bible school classes or discipleship courses. Other times,
they might not have the opportunity of an organized Bible education, so they
just motivate themselves to read, study, and commit themselves to learn the
word of God (Acts 6:4).
It takes discipline to be a continuous learner (James 1:25); that is a
characteristic of men in this group. It is impossible to be lazy and be a con-
tinuous learner. One must read and make sacrifices of free time and leisure
in order to constantly learn the word.
Nowadays, few men will move from the group of Listeners to the group
we are calling “Learners.” Few will give up their free time with the TV, In-
ternet, iPad, and other time wasters like “watching the news” (Eccl. 1:9–10;
Acts 17:21). Many Christians today think they must track Glenn Beck, Rush,
and FOX News; or they are not “learning” what they should “do” about our
country.
As I heard one saved man say recently, “I would love to teach my kids
how to hunt and fish, but I’ve got to keep up with the news and what’s hap-
pening in this country. If I don’t do that, then my kids won’t have a future!”
That guy really thought that his personal knowledge of the “news” would
change the direction of the USA! Someone is not thinking.
The news media is a system geared at upsetting people about things
about which they can’t do anything. When was the last time your knowledge
of the news changed the direction of the USA? It’s spiraling downward re-
gardless of how much attention you give the news. You would do better to
spend time with your children and learning the Bible rather than give the
news five minutes a month. In other words, you cannot become a “Learner”
of the word of God while wasting hours of your time each week.
Laborers
Sometimes, nowadays, we do find men who go from being Listeners to
Learners, and then on to the next group. We will call that group “Laborers.”
The Laborers in the local church are easy to spot. They do not sit around
and assume that someone else is going to do the job. They will find some-
thing to do for Jesus Christ without having to be “given a position.” They do
not complain, saying, “There is no job for me to do in this church.” If a job
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Missionary Journey
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needs to be done, no matter how miniscule, they jump at the chance.
The Laborer is found in the nursing home and hospital regularly. The
Laborer is in that very small group of folks who are always at church visita-
tion and soulwinning. But the Laborer doesn’t wait for an organized time of
witnessing to speak for the Lord Jesus Christ. That is just his “life” (2 Cor.
4:13 cf. Phil. 1:21).
The jobs of the Laborer are not limited to witnessing and “spiritual”
jobs. He is sometimes found mowing the grass of a weak church member
or cleaning the bathrooms in the church building. Many times, his jobs en-
tail just “being a blessing” to people who need him. The Laborer is gener-
ous with time, money, and his very life (Phil. 1:22–25; 1 Thess. 2:8; 2 Cor.
8:1–5).
Some of the Learners come to church for years and years, but never
have the desire or interest to be a Laborer. Hearing and learning the word is
enough for them. They hear the word, but refuse to do much about it.
However, the Laborer is a servant. The Laborer realizes that a dis-
ciple of Jesus Christ is someone who serves as a “minister” (Matt. 20:28;
Mark 10:45). Even in the modern business world, the aspect of being a
“servant-leader” is recognized. The Laborer is the servant who goes on to
be a Leader in the local church.
Leaders
The man who is sent out of the New Testament local church as a mis-
sionary normally goes through the above progression until one day it is
obvious that he is a Leader in the church. Maybe he is a Leader without any
official title. Many times in the church, there are “aged men” (cf. Tit. 2:2)
who are great leaders, but they don’t have any title like deacon or elder.
They are just solid men who are “pillars” in the church (cf. Gal. 2:9).
In my own personal testimony, it was my blessing to be a youth direc-
tor, children’s church director, and the captain of two bus routes at a church
in Little Rock, Arkansas (1988–1992). However, many men are sent out as
missionaries who were leaders in their local assembly, but they had no of-
ficial title or position. But somewhere along the way, they went from Listener
to Learner to Laborer to Leader in the local church. What comes next?
Leavers
It may not be very good English to call a missionary a “Leaver,” but he
still has the office in the local church where he cannot stay. He must leave.
Like Abram, he must get out from his country, kindred, and people, and “go.”
In Acts 13, Paul and Barnabas were Leaders who became Leavers. They
had that office in the local church where the Holy Ghost said, “Get out.”
It is a calling to go away—“far away” (Isa. 6:12). When a man has this
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calling, he cannot stay “home” because no place in this world can feel like
“home.”
It never occurred to me just how much my family and I would “go”
when the time came to yield to the call of God to “Go . . . into all the world,
and preach the gospel” (Mark 16:15). There was an understanding that
we might move 8,000 miles away, but the thought never entered my mind
that we would travel all over the United States whenever we were here. We
averaged 50,000 miles a year and went to ninety church meetings for every
year in the States.
There are times when the missionary wonders, “Can we ever sit still
again?” Do we have to be “going” every week? That might seem a bit over-
stated, but our family lived out of suitcases and in the homes of other people
for a year at a time at least twice. That was a lot of going and leaving. Some
men are called to leave, and Paul and Barnabas were Leavers in Acts chap-
ter 13.
Next month, I will discuss the resistance and results encountered by
missionaries.
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THE CREED OF
THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT
1. There is no final authority but God.
2. Since God is a Spirit, there is no final authority that can be seen, heard, read,
felt, or handled.
3. Since all books are material, there is no book on this earth that is the final
and absolute authority on what is right and what is wrong, what constitutes truth and
what constitutes error.
4. There WAS a series of writings one time which, IF they had all been put into a
BOOK as soon as they were written the first time, WOULD HAVE constituted an infal-
lible and final authority by which to judge truth and error.
5. However, this series of writings was lost, and the God who inspired them was
unable to preserve their content through Bible-believing Christians at Antioch
(Syria), where the first Bible teachers were (Acts 13:1), and where the first missionary
trip originated (Acts 13:1-52), and where the word “Christian” originated (Acts 11:26).
6. So God chose to ALMOST preserve them through Gnostics and philosophers
from Alexandria, Egypt, even though God called His Son OUT of Egypt (Matthew 2),
Jacob OUT of Egypt (Genesis 49), Israel OUT of Egypt (Exodus 15), and Joseph’s
bones OUT of Egypt (Exodus 13).
7. So there are two streams of Bibles. The most accurate—though, of course, there
is no final, absolute authority for determining truth and error; it is a matter of “pref-
erence”—are the Egyptian translations from Alexandria, Egypt, which are “almost the
originals,” although not quite.
8. The most inaccurate translations were those that brought about the German
Reformation (Luther, Zwingli, Boehler, Zinzendorf, Spener, et al.) and the worldwide
missionary movement of the English-speaking people: the Bible that Sunday, Torrey,
Moody, Finney, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Wesley, and Chapman used.
9. But we can “tolerate” these if those who believe in them will “tolerate” US. After
all, since there is NO ABSOLUTE AND FINAL AUTHORITY that anyone can read,
teach, preach, or handle, the whole thing is a matter of “PREFERENCE.” You may
prefer what you prefer, and we will prefer what we prefer. Let us live in peace, and if we
cannot agree on anything or everything, let us all agree on one thing: THERE IS NO
FINAL, ABSOLUTE, WRITTEN AUTHORITY OF GOD ANYWHERE ON THIS EARTH.