‘Woe unto you lawyers! for you have taken away the KEY OF KNOWLEDGE: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering you hindered.” Lk 11:52
The ‘lawyers’ to whom Jesus spoke as above, were what we today call ‘theologians.’ Our Lord threw it in their teeth as to what they were, therefore they hated Him: neither has that clique changed their spots unto this day.
In the days of Moses, great and awe-inspiring revelations were given by God Almighty during the two shifts of 40 days upon the holy mount. Much of this was substantially imbedded, in form, weights and measurements, and others veiled in rites and statutes. Hence the tabernacle pitched by Moses and its multitudinous rites.
As much of this as God saw fit was made plain to Moses, and as much as the latter dared, he revealed to his brother and his sons. Over and above this we must bear in mind that the High prlesthood possessed the urim and thummim which, when putting on the ephod (which, presumably, held the urim and thummim), enabled any one of the priests to receive a direct answer from God. Wherefore, such mysteries as were puzzling, they could get elucidated – if as and when. Because of such revelations and understanding being available to them, we read that at the time of the ‘nativity’ the Israel people were THEN in a State of anticipation of their Messiah coming into the world. (Lk2:25-26, 38 and 3:15.)
But this ‘key Of Knowledge’ charged our Lord, you have unscrupulously ‘taken away,’ neither did you personally ‘enter in’.
Throughout this long ‘night’ of spiritual darkness, multitudinous misconceptions, and ‘doctrines of men’ have arisen, because the ‘key Of knowledge’ was no longer available.
In the pentecostal ‘upper room’ the disciples received a degree of illumination, but their labors became directed chiefly towards spiritual reformation of their own people, rather than towards an UNveiling of the great Truths – hidden from the days of Moses. And, when the ‘fathers fell asleep’ so did also the church in general fall asleep! (While men slept, His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat’ – Mt 13:25). The result is what we observe today: a multitude of discordant voices, with countless sects, denominations and pit-isms, with its ever mounting spiritual ignorance until the whole world totters on the cataclysmic brink of Armageddon.
THIS was foreseen as the eye of the Master scanned the vista of the unborn eras, and He said: ‘When the Son of man come shall He find THE faith on the earth’ – Lk 18:8. (Here it should be pointed out that the translators of both the Authorized as well as Revised versions have DELIBERATELY falsified His words to read ‘find FAITH’? intentionally leaving out the specific Article ‘THE’ – which is to be found in the Textus Receptus’, and in ALL of t h e old Gr texts. By leaving it out, the reader gets the impression that Jesus simply meant faith would have weakened in general. But that identical clique with the selfsame leopard spots whom our Lord excoriated in His days, dared not ‘let the cat out of the bag’ by putting In the specific article ‘the.’ For, with it, the reader would immediately recognize that our Lord foretold that in these days TRUTH would have become so distorted, and hued with the spurious ‘doctrines of men’ that – go where He may – ‘THE faith’ would not be found preached in any of His churches!
Hence we have a ‘furnace of fire’ roasting and tormenting countless billions of human souls, ‘time WITHOUT END.’ And every new born babe represents ‘a virgin SOUL’ fresh from the hand of God! Most of whom are ‘damned into hell for ever and ever’! With a mighty ‘Savior’ in the heavenlies, entirely helpless to do a thing to stop the mad rush of innumerable billions into ‘eternal torment!’
Now, let us take a careful look at the Word of God – that we may be inspired to put the boot to these ‘tares’ and Pit-isms, peddled in the name of Christ; that the readers heart may he in awe before its Maker, and exult in rhapsody at the grandeur of His Plan for Man.
“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?”
Jesus – Lk 12:57
