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Chapter Five The Great Deception
How did so many people come to accept Dispensationalism and the secret
pretribulation rapture theory of John Nelson Darby? There is no doubt that
Darbyism would have fallen into obscurity and never been heard of again if
it had not been for C. I. Scofield and his reference bible. Scofield's
reference bible broke the time-honored tradition that all the Bible
societies had conformed to of printing Bibles without the opinions of men
included. In fact, as someone has suggested, if Scofield had written his
notes as a companion book to the Bible, his book would have been destined
to the same fate, as many such books eventually met.
However, the world was ripe for Scofield's Bible, especially in the
rapidly progressing American society. From the beginning, America was
destined to become multi-cultured nation of common people, most of them
uneducated, who spilled out of Europe, Africa, and various other parts of
the world into a land of hope and promise. Many who populated this vast
continent were fleeing the heavy hand of social, economic, and religious
oppression. However, some were forced to come to America because of other
reasons. They brought only what they deemed necessary to survive the harsh
climate of the new nation. Many also brought their belief systems, which
eventually became meshed together as the old generations died and their
offspring married people of other beliefs.
By the late 1800's, telegraph poles spiked the landscape along
major byways, lacing its spiny arteries across the expanding nation and
connecting each new town to the main populace. Eventually the nation
became literally lit up, and connected with the advent and development of
electricity and the telephone. There were 150,000 telephones in the United
States by 1887, and electricity was now challenging the darkness. People
could stay up all night frolicking or working and information was spread
almost as fast as the wind. The industrial revolution was about to explode
the country's major cities with a rush of "busyness" that would
divert time from its historical, patient and plodding path. Time was about
to get on the fast track, and people would begin to feel as if they had
less and less of it. With the arrival of the automobile, transportation
was also on the verge of change, both in comfort and speed.
During the turn of the century, when Scofield's Bible was still in
the formation stage, America was expanding and overwhelming the virgin
territory once solely occupied by the Indians.
With the dawning of more and more technology, America would never
take it easy again. In 1947, the first mass audience watched the World
Series on television. Television changed the way we gather information and
knowledge. Our evenings became filled with entertainment and the gathering
of frivolous knowledge. As the nation grew, it became plagued with too
many things to do and not enough time to do them in.
America made a paradigm shift from a quiet nation to a noisy and
busy one. People had to
find the time to be still, to pray, and to read and study the Word of God.
Something had to be done away with to make room for new activities. More
and more people stopped reading the old classics, including the Bible and
historical books, and other personal spiritual activities were sacrificed
as well.
People came to America to start all over again and found out that
they needed every second to stay afloat spiritually in an atmosphere in
which many drowned. There were also houses to be built, businesses to
form, inventions to be concocted, and certainly many places to go and
things to do. Governments and other time-consuming activities related to
the birth of a nation also required much time to develop. The formation of
each new state presented its own vortex of time- consuming activities that
swallowed everyone who entered its borders. As people began to cut things
off their lists of priorities to make room for indulgence in the new
fast-paced age of running to and fro, they turned to quick fixes to make
up for the deficiency. The more time they saved, the more they had to
spend racing along the path of progress in the new rapidly developing
society of America. New inventions would help them recapture more of their
"lost" time, but there would never be enough new gadgets to get
them back on the old paths of seeking and finding biblical and spiritual
knowledge.
Bursting on the scene of this budding age of industry was the
spurious Scofield Reference Bible. For the person who did not have time to
read and study the history of Christianity, who did not have time to study
the Bible for himself or herself, and who did not read well enough to
gather or grasp the meaning of the Scriptures, Scofield was ready to feed
and divert him from historical theology. Scofield gave the people the
quick and easy way to study the Bible so that they had more time to engage
in the endless activities of a burgeoning nation. What the church leaders
failed to grasp in allowing the Scofield Bible to reach fame and
acceptance was that a trend would develop that would eventually prove to
be the downfall of millions. The paradigm would shift from honor of the
Word of God to a cavalier mishandling of the Scriptures until they would
no longer be given the reverence and awe of ages past. The printed Word of
God would fall into the hands of unscrupulous men who would add their own
words to the pages, stamp their own names onto the cover, and by degrees,
turn the Bible into a book of scripture mingled with fatuous opinions. The
historic compass of the Scriptures had always been used to point
faithfully at the true path; now that path became shrouded in a maze of
new directions. The old landmarks would be grown over with the suffocating
weeds of human error, causing multitudes to lose the way to truth and an
intimate relationship with God.
Currently in America, there are scores of Bibles written in the
name of various individuals who intend to force their own particular
theories on the Scriptures. This bending and blending of God's Word has
further divided the Body of Christ and created doctrinal walls behind
which are guarded numerous captive people. They are often held captive by
their own ignorance or an unwillingness to discover truth for themselves.
Their wholesale surrender to the caldron of new ideas mingled with
canon has them addicted to reading the latest revelation. Many writers
today eagerly leap into every opportunity to exploit the masses for
personal gain. Some so-called
prophecy experts have imitated Scofield's success by adding their notes to
the Bible. Publishers are to blame as well, since their love for money has
lured them into becoming the vehicles to deliver their wares to the masses
for these scurrilous encroachers on God's Holy Word.
Today we also are living in a video-oriented generation that
gathers knowledge in sound bites. The foolishness of the knowledge that
most Americans gorge their minds on is appalling. If ever a people were
ripe for utter deception, the nation of America is certainly so. Many
people willingly gobble up every crumb of heresy from the mouths and pens
of false teachers, who with one hand feed the malnourished masses a morsel
of nothing, and with the other hand reach into their bank accounts. Did
not the prophets and Apostles warn us that such a day of deception would
come? Listen to the words of the Apostles Paul and Peter: "For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according
to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up
for themselves teachers; {4} and they will turn their ears away from the
truth, and be turned aside to fables." (2 Tim. 4:3-4 NKJV) "But
there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be
false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies,
even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift
destruction. {2} And many will follow their destructive ways, because of
whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. {3} By covetousness they will
exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not
been idle, and their destruction does not slumber." (2 Pet. 2:1-3
NKJV)
I hear from godly ministers over and over again that people do not
want the truth. They want an easy gospel, one that soothes the
psychological stress of living as a spiritual weakling in a world that
torments spiritual weaklings while robbing them of every last drop of
emotional energy. Most professing Christians capitulate to the ministers
who deliver pop psychology thinly disguised with Scripture verses.
However, if a minister tells these people that they might face a terrible
time of tribulation, the building will empty and very rapidly. This modern
church craves the quick fix of sound bite religion sprinkled with
sensationalism. Pretribulation Rapture, Unconditional Eternal Security,
and the materialistic Prosperity doctrine have found a fertile field in
this current age. Did Scofield cause all of this to come about? Is his
reference Bible responsible for the dawning of apostasy on this mighty
nation? I would say that he has to share a great portion of the blame,
because he opened the door for the plague of Scripture tampering and he
was a primary promoter of false doctrine in the first half of the
twentieth century.
Let us look into the problem of Scofield's reference Bible and
understand how it gave Darbyte Dispensationalism its life support at a
time when it would normally have slipped into the graveyard of bad,
exegetically deficient doctrine. The
Scofield Reference Bible
The problem with the Scofield Reference Bible is that it started a
dangerous trend of adding men's words to the Word of God. It opened the
Bible to infestation with the whims of whoever can come up with the most
desirable doctrinal package. This puts the Bible in jeopardy of being
subject to changing culture and the influence of highly charismatic
people. I am not against commentaries, per say, but against the
integration of any commentary into the Bible. The idea may be to make it
handier to study the Bible; but it does not make it handier, since you can
study the Bible without a commentary, and should do so most of the
time-especially if you are a new convert. It does, however, influence the
reader or student with the opinions of whoever writes the reference.
I remember when I first saw a Scofield Bible as a new convert I
thought, "That's strange." I wondered what kind of a man would
dare put his thoughts next to the thoughts of God with no fear of
judgment. Through the years, I have seen a string of study Bibles come
along. There are the Dake's Study Bible, the Jimmy Swaggart
Study Bible, an Oral Roberts Study Bible, the John Hagee
Study Bible, a study Bible by Kenneth Copeland, and on the list
goes. The last time I visited a bookstore, I saw a prophecy study Bible by
Grant Jeffreys. There is currently a multitude of study Bibles
designed for various groups such as students, women, men, children,
Spirit-filled people, and African Americans. If this is the standard, then
I guess each denomination should also have its own study Bible so that it
can shade the meaning of the Scriptures to reflect favorably upon its
doctrine. Some cults are
already doing this.
It is appalling that people have so little fear of God that they
can attach their words to His. I have no problem with their putting
together a commentary for sincere students, but I do not understand why
they think that they can ride along on the coattails of God's best seller?
My belief is that it is because they realize that their commentary by
itself would never approach the volume of sales that are possible when it
is jammed into the Bible. Bruce Shelly writes this about the Bible: "The
name itself -- Bible -- suggests that Christians consider these writings
special. Jerome, the fourth century translator, called them 'The Divine
Library.' He wanted to stress that the many books were, in fact one.
Greek-speaking believers made the same point when they shifted from the
early plural form Biblia, meaning 'The Books,' to The Bible, meaning 'The
Book.' "(1)
If the Bible had not been accepted as sealed canon in the North
African councils at Hippo in A.D. 393 and at Carthage in A.D. 397, it
would undoubtedly have become an extremely large work, covering several
hundred volumes. Without question, there would be books written by demonic
Roman Catholic popes and bishops, plus a book by every famous leader in
religious Christianity throughout the ages—all mingled together with the
holy Scripture. So confusing would the conflicting doctrines in that book
be that few would attempt to read it.
Imagine the commentaries that would be needed in order to interpret
such a monstrosity. If we think that the Church is divided today, it would
certainly be fractured beyond recognition if such a thing were allowed. I
have no doubt in my mind that Christianity would have died out completely.
God foreknew this and caused men to seal the Canon, limiting the Bible to
the sixty-six books we have today. This has frustrated many would be
apostles, who would have added to the Scriptures in a heartbeat if they
thought that they could have gotten away with it. Tertullian complained
about the sealing of the Canon that, "The Holy Spirit was chased into
a book." However, God's wisdom has proven itself in that we can still
purchase a Bible without the references and opinions of man included.
James Stalker, in his book The Life of Jesus Christ, says this
about the religious scribes in Jesus' time: "They
professed unbounded reverence for the Scriptures, counting every word as
letter in them. They had a splendid opportunity of diffusing the religious
principles of the Old Testament among the people, exhibiting the glorious
examples of its heroes and sowing abroad the words of the prophets; for
the synagogue was one of the most potent engines of instruction ever
devised by any people: but they entirely miss their opportunity. They
became a dry, ecclesiastical and scholastic class, using their position
for selfish aggrandizement, and scorning those to whom they gave stones
for bread as a vulgar and unlettered canaille. Whatever was most
spiritual, living, human and grand in the Scripture's they passed by.
Generation after generation the commentaries of their famous men
multiplied, and the pupils studied the commentaries instead of the text.
Moreover, it was a rule with them that the correct interpretation of a
passage was as authoritative as the text itself; and, the interpretations
of the famous masters being as a matter of course believed to be correct,
the mass of opinions which were held to be as precious as the Bible itself
grew to enormous proportions. These were "the traditions of the
elders." By degrees an arbitrary system of exegesis came into vogue,
by which almost any opinion what ever could be thus connected with some
text and stamped with divine authority. Every new invention of Pharisaic
singularity was sanctioned in this way. Peculiarities were multiplied
until they regulated every detail of life, personal, domestic, social, and
public. The became so numerous, that it required a lifetime to learn them
all; and the learning of a scribe consisted in acquaintance with them all,
and with the dicta of the great rabbis and the forms of exegesis by which
they were sanctioned. This was the chaff that fed the people in the
synagogue." (2)
Stalker
also writes this: "The
scribes busied themselves in the Scriptures; and the cherishing of the
Messianic hopes was one of the chief distinctions of the Pharisees. But
they had caricatured the prophetic utterances on the subject by their
arbitrary interpretations, and painted the future in colors borrowed from
their own carnal imaginations. They spoke of the advent as the coming of
the kingdom of God, and of the Messiah as the Son of God. But what they
chiefly expected Him to do was, by the working of marvels and by
irresistible force, to free the nation from servitude and raise it to the
utmost worldly grandeur. They entertained no doubt that, simply because
they were members of the chosen nation, they would be allotted high places
in the kingdom, and never suspected that any change was needed in
themselves to meet Him. The spiritual elements of the better time,
holiness and love, were lost in their minds behind the dazzling forms of
material glory." (3)
In my opinion, history has repeated itself with the advent of the
Scofield Reference Bible and its successors. The deluge of Pretribulation
Rapture material today amount to nothing more than sensationalized and in
many cases fictionalized, commentaries that seek authoritative status with
the Bible itself. The Bible cannot share its top position with any other
document, no matter how saintly the writer of that document is or how many
people support it. People who want to add to the Scriptures by putting
their notes in the Bible have a problem to begin with. They have crossed
the threshold of reverence for God's Word and considered their words to
also be "Divinely breathed."(4) "All
Scripture is given by inspiration (5)
of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness, {17} that the man of God may be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Tim. 3:16-17 NKJV)
Because Scofield wanted everyone to understand and accept Darbyism,
he took the fatal and precarious step of adding to the Bible. This spawned
a plethora of reference Bibles that are as confusing as they are false.
They are little more than attempts to add to the Scriptures for the
purpose of promoting men and their false doctrines. The fact is that many
people are deeply affected by the comments that they read along with the
Scriptures. Many people view Scofield's notes as the very Gospel itself.
The antinomian doctrine of Once Saved, Always Saved and the phenomenally
false doctrine of Pretribulation Rapture are but two of the deadly results
of his efforts.
How can we hope to find a pure standard for Christianity and truth
today if everyone who desires to in each generation adds his or her words
to the Scriptures? Can anyone imagine large numbers of auto repair manuals
for a BMW™ that were written by various mechanics giving conflicting
instructions for repairing a BMW™? The British Motor Works Company has
specs that must be followed if the car is to be repaired correctly, but
imagine that a host of individuals that have their own conflicting
opinions as to what will or will not work. Obviously, the faulty manuals
will not be sufficient and the same holds true for the Word of God when it
is compromised. God has written what He clearly wants us to recognize as
His Holy Word. What gets into people to make them have so little respect
for what God has written and what the Holy Spirit teaches that they would
want to add their part also? Consider this Scripture: "But
the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do
not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you
concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has
taught you, you will abide in Him." (1 John 2:27 NKJV)
Although neither Scofield nor his contemporaries would admit that
they intended to add to the Scriptures, this is precisely what they have
done. When opinions are inserted between Genesis 1:1 and Revelation 22:21,
the Scriptures have been added to. God's Word did not need any help before
Scofield came along, and it does not need any help now. My advice to
converts new in the Christian faith who have a reference Bible is to get
rid of it. If one has to buy a cheap Bible to get one without reference
notes, so be it. A person will be better off with a Bible and a
concordance than something laced with the errant opinions of men. Two
More Comings of Christ
What Scofield promoted through his reference Bible was the idea
that Jesus' Second Coming would be split into two comings that would be
separated by seven years, or the Tribulation Period. Anthony Hockema deals
with this rather handily when he brings out several vital points that
refute Scofield's errant notion.
First, he explains that the New Testament words for the Second
Coming, Parousia (literally, presence), apokalypsis (revelation),
and epiphaenia (appearance) depict a single phase return of Christ.
(6)
Hockema points out that parousia is used to describe what
pretribulationists call the pretribulation rapture in 1 Thessalonians
4:15, but that it is also used to describe the Second Advent in 1
Thessalonians 3:13. It is also used to describe the coming of Christ to
destroy the Antichrist in 2 Thessalonians 2:8. (7) "For
this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and
remain until the coming (parousia) of the Lord will by no means precede
those who are asleep." (1 Thess. 4:15 NKJV) "...so
that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and
Father at the coming (parousia) of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His
saints." (1 Thess. 3:13 NKJV) "And
then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the
breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming (parousia)."
(2 Thess. 2:8 NKJV)
Next, Hokema reveals that the use of the word apokalypsis is
used in 1 Corinthians 1:7 to describe what dispensationalists call the
rapture, and that the same word is used to describe the Second Advent in 2
Thessalonians 1:7-8. (8) "...so
that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation (apokalypsis)
of our Lord Jesus Christ," (1 Cor.1:7 NKJV) "...and
to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed
(apokalypsis) from heaven with His mighty angels, {8} in flaming fire
taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not
obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Thess.1:7-8 NKJV) Finally,
he writes that the word epiphaneia is used in 1 Timothy 6:14 to describe
the rapture, and that it is used to describe the Second Coming of Christ
in 2 Thessalonians 2:8.(9) "that
you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus
Christ's appearing (epiphaneia)," (1 Tim. 6:14 NKJV) "And
then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the
breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming (epiphaneia)."
(2 Thess. 2:8 NKJV)
The people of God became merchandised by the Scofield Reference
Bible. By inference, they have all become stupid, incapable of
interpreting the Bible for themselves on an issue that
pretribulationist’s declare is "plainly there in the Scripture's
for all to see." I have noticed that some pretribulationist’s have
offered "rapture kits" for sale with advertisements that declare
that the kit contains "everything you need to understand this
complicated doctrine called the Rapture." There are even things to
leave for your loved ones and acquaintances that are left behind.
Many prominent pretribulationists are coming dangerously close to
declaring that anyone who does not believe in PTR will be left behind, no
matter how godly that they may be. In fact, I have heard this concept
insinuated from the pulpit several times, always with the tone of scorn
and ridicule toward those who do not believe in PTR. The masses are taught
to believe that it is a disqualification for Heaven to disbelieve PTR.
This is backed up with the fact that those who dare disbelieve it are
dismissed from fellowship in some denominations. As a result, the people
fear to let truth come in about the matter. But do pretribulation
rapturists really know the truth?
To answer my last question, I want you to first notice a classic
mistake that is subtly made by pretribulationists when it comes to
interpreting the following Scriptures. "Assuredly,
I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these
things take place. {31} "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My
words will by no means pass away. {32} "But of that day and hour no
one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the
Father. {33} "Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the
time is." (Mk. 13:30-33 NKJV)
Jesus is saying here that no man will know the day or hour of His
coming, but He is not saying that no man will know the day or hour of
these events. The proof of this is in the famous pretrib rapture
Scriptures in 1 Thessalonians: "For
you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief
in the night. {3} For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then
sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman.
And they shall not escape. {4} But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so
that this Day should overtake you as a thief." (1 Thess. 5:2-4 NKJV)
No one knows when the Day of the Lord is going to come, but we can
see the signs of it approaching. The only reason that the children of God
will not be surprised is that they will be prepared. If I am prepared for
a visitor, I may not know the exact moment he is going to come, but I will
not be taken by surprise when he arrives. I have been caught off guard by
a visitor before, and I was surprised. There have been many times that I
have been ready for a guest and although I did not know when my guest was
arriving, I was not surprised when he came. We do not know the timely
order of these events, and will not know until God reveals them. I say, He
has not done so to this point, and will not do so until He discerns in His
great wisdom that it is the perfect time. I do believe that when He does
reveal this great knowledge, men will not be writing books to promote
their special knowledge of future eschatological affairs. Rather, they
will be on their knees praying for the power and wisdom to get through the
troubled times.
In the Scriptures, Paul clearly declares that the rapture and the
coming of the Lord are at the same time, on the same day, and incorporated
as the same event. That is why people cannot figure out the timing,
because Jesus said that we would not know. It is also the way the majority
of the church believed for over 1800 years before J. N. Darby and C. I.
Scofield began to spread Dispensationalism throughout the evangelical,
fundamental Church.
The truth is that God has sealed some of the knowledge concerning
eschatology, which has driven those who are possessed by a malignant
spirit of curiosity to the point of madness. In a frantic effort to be the
first to declare knowledge in an area in which knowledge has not been
revealed, they have experimented with the Scriptures. The pretribulation
rapture experiment has wandered down many dead end trails of false
prophecy and what Gary DeMar calls "newspaper exegesis." Since
the Church does not know some things for the simple fact that they have
not been revealed yet, it is easy to get caught up in the sensational
revelations of today's prophecy teachers-an office, by the way, that does
not exist in the Bible . Pastors who have caused their people to trust in
these prophecy teachers have caused their defenses to be lowered or
removed, and have become culpable in the great PTR error.
What any of us really have concerning Revelation is mostly an
opinion, but we hope that we base that opinion on very careful
hermeneutics. We do not have all the knowledge, because, according to
Daniel, some knowledge has been sealed. Also, in the tenth chapter of
Revelation, John was forbidden to write certain things. This being the
case, how can any of us have a complete and perfect picture? Because so
many have made the same mistake of trying to predict the future without
prophetic anointing and without all the knowledge, various false doctrines
such as the Pretribulation Rapture have resulted. To prove the fact that
no one totally understands all about the period of time that Revelation is
referring to, I will give two Scriptures in Daniel and one in Revelation. "But
thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of
the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased." (Dan. 12:4 KJV) "And
I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the
end of these things? {9} And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words
are closed up and sealed till the time of the end." (Dan. 12:8-9 KJV) "And
when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write:
and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which
the seven thunders uttered, and write them not." (Rev. 10:4 KJV)
Now, some of the prophecy teachers may declare that these words
have been unsealed, at least to them, but God is no respecter of persons.
He will unseal the words to all who fear and serve Him with a whole heart,
not just to a select few. When such an unsealing of knowledge occurs, the
entire Body of Christ will know at once. Without all the knowledge, one
cannot possibly have all the answers. This means that the best that any of
us can do is to answer what we know and speculate about what we do not
know. The best thing that we can do is to trust God with all of
eschatology, which is the way He intended for it to be. We must do our
best to present what the Bible says and be honest about the rest that we
do not know about. We do not have to know everything, but we need to be
certain that we believe that God is in control. Dispensationalists seem to
have an insatiable desire to know even what God says cannot be known. This
is what gets them into most of their trouble.
In the proceeding chapters, I intend to prove that the only
Parousia of Christ Jesus occurs near the end of the Tribulation Period.
This is called the Post-tribulation Rapture position, but I prefer to
simply call it the Second Coming of Christ. It was the position of most of
the Church before Darby, and for good reason. The reason is that it is the
only position that can be harmonized with the Scriptures. I intend to
prove by the Scriptures that Dispensationalism and PTR are not valid Bible
doctrines. However, since most of my evidence is predicated one what I
believe to be the correct eschatological sequence of events, I will first
present my opinion concerning the Second Coming of Christ Jesus and the
catching away of the Church. I believe that if I cannot substantially
prove my case for a plausible contrasting view as far as the Scriptures
allow, I cannot honestly proceed to disprove the pretribulation rapture
view. 1.
Bruce, Shelly, Church History in Plain Language, Word Publishing, page 58,
chapter 1 2.
James Stalker, The life of Jesus Christ, Fleming H. Revell Company, Old
Tappan, New Jersey, Page 29, paragraph 1 3.
Ibid, page 33, paragraph 1 4.
Strong's Concordance, 2315. theopneustos, theh-op'-nyoo-stos; from G2316
and a presumed der. of G4154; divinely breathed in:--given by inspiration
of God. 5.
Strong's Concordance, 2315. theopneustos, theh-op'-nyoo-stos; from G2316
and a presumed der. of G4154; divinely breathed in:--given by inspiration
of God. 6.
Anthony A Hockema, The Bible and the Future, William B. Erdman's
Publishing Company, Grand Rapids Mich. 1979 pp 165-166 7.
Ibid, pp 165-166 8.
Ibid, pg. 166 9.
Ibid, pg. 167
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