THE BIBLE IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST! - By Harland Hoy - Harland & Diana - Chapter 12

THE BIBLE IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST! - By Harland Hoy - Harland & Diana - Chapter 12

Chapter Twelve -A Brief History of Mankind

1.            The Creation of Adam and Eve in the garden.

    Genesis chapters 1 & 2

    Adam and Eve were like angels (spirits) but in earthly bodies.  They knew only what God told them.  They had no evil in their hearts or minds; they were innocent and pure like babies.  That’s why they could walk around naked and not be ashamed.  God would walk and talk with them in the cool of the day.

2.            The fall into sin.

   Genesis 3

   Lucifer entered the serpent and beguiled Eve and Adam into obeying him instead of God.  When their eyes were opened they became godlike animals (beasts) and started living after the flesh, killing, hating, greed, etc. and God cursed them.  Genesis 3:15 I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, (note- there are two seeds now) Lucifer’s seed and God’s seed.  In the time to come the seed that God plants in the Virgin Mary (the woman’s seed) is Jesus.  Without God’s seed (Jesus) we cannot get back to God and would be forever lost, separated from God.

3.            Abraham the father of faith

   Genesis 22:18

   Abraham believed in the invisible God and whatever God told him (that is what faith is).  God promised him a son, Isaac, Isaac being the son of promise. 

Ishmael was a son by the flesh and not the son of the promise; he was the son of Abraham and Sarah’s Egyptian maid.  Ishmael’s children are who we now know as Arabs, Palestinians, Moslem’s etc.  Isaac is the father of Jacob and Jacob is the father of twelve sons, who became the twelve tribes of Israel.  Joseph is one of Jacob’s sons.  He was sold by his brothers into Egypt as a slave.  Joseph later became second in charge in Egypt.  When a famine came upon the land Jacob and his other sons and family came to Egypt for corn.

4.            After many years the Jews became slaves in Egypt.

   Then after about four hundred and thirty years in Egypt, God sent Moses to deliver his people.  They crossed the Red Sea on dry land into the wilderness where God gave them the law and they made the Tabernacle where the Ark of the Covenant was placed in the Holy Place behind a veil and God would come down once a year and talk to the High Priest.

   After forty years, they crossed the river of Jordan into the promised land (Israel) King David wanted to build a temple for God, David said that he lived in a great house while his God was in a tent (tabernacle).  God wouldn’t let David build it because he had spilled so much blood so Solomon built the temple.  The Ark of the Covenant was placed into the Holiest of all behind the veil in the Temple.  The Temple was built and destroyed, rebuilt, then once again restored by Herod.  The law was given as a schoolmaster; it was given as a guide until the seed which is Jesus would come.

5.            Jesus is the seed of God and the sacrifice for our sins; He is also the high Priest.

   Jesus fulfilled the law and then began the new covenant. The new covenant is God in us by the Holy Ghost. Now we are the temple of God.

The old Jewish temple of God was once again destroyed just as Jesus said it would be.  It was destroyed about forty years after Jesus was crucified around 70 A.D. by the Roman Army to never be rebuilt again.  Israel was scattered and no longer a country until 1948.     

6.            Around 330 A.D Roman Emperor Constantine

   Constantine was getting ready to go into battle when he said he saw a vision of a cross and a voice told him to fight under this symbol.  He won the battle and after that he accepted Christianity as a religion along with roman paganism to bring peace between the two religions in his empire.  He had fifty copies of the first bibles compiled on fine vellum and the bishops he controlled that used these bibles were the beginning of the Catholic Church.

7.            Protestants in the 1400’s and 1500’s

   Protestants started translating bibles into their own languages and broke away from the Catholic Church.  The first printed book was the Gutenberg (German) bible, March 22, 1457.

   King James the 6th of Scotland became King James the 1st of England in 1603.  He was born 1566 and sponsored a translation of the bible in 1611 that is now known as the King James Version that now contains 66 books.

8.            The Pentecostals

   The largest part of the Pentecostal movement in the U.S. began on January 1, 1901 in Topeka, Kansas when a group of people were praying and a woman was filled with the Holy Ghost.  After that, it spread to California where William Seymour conducted meetings in an old building.  People came from all over to get a flame of fire of the Holy Ghost, and then go out and start their own churches.

9.            The quenching of the Holy Spirit.

   The movement of the Holy Spirit started dying out as people went back under the law (dead letter) like the Galatians.  Pentecostals started saying the bible was the word of God for authority in the place of Jesus who is the living word of God.  Under the new covenant Jesus speaks to us by the Holy Ghost, not the scriptures, now the laws of God are written in our hearts and minds by His Spirit, not in a book.