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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 419
reader with the same desire. The true, unadulterated word of God has the power to change lives.
Paul says in Romans that the spoken word of God brings faith to the hearer: “So then faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). It has even more power
than that.
Jesus and the Word
Sometime after Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo he stated: “The Bible is no mere
book but a living creature with power that would concur all that would try to appose it.”
Napoleon was quite right. The Apostle John says that the word was with God, it was God, he
created all things and he became flesh. John is saying that Jesus is the living word. He writes:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made
by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life;
and the life was the light of men…. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-4 & 14.)
The Psalmist alludes to the fact that the word is inseparable from God himself in that he
praised the word of God: “In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not
fear what flesh can do unto me…. In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his
word.” (Psalm 56:4, 10.)
The Word Is Inspired
Since the word of God is inseparable from Jesus Christ, they cannot be the words of man
but they must be the words of God himself. The Apostle Peter wrote: “For the prophecy came
not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21). Paul wrote: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).
Now if someone took a book and changed the author’s words and even conclusions and
accredited it to the original author, they would be subject to a lawsuit and the courts would hold
them accountable. God also holds men accountable for changing his word. In Deuteronomy God
states that words should not be added to or taken away from what he has commanded. In
Revelation God says what will happen if someone adds to or takes away from his word. He says
they will experience the plagues and they shall be condemned to eternal death because their
names will be blotted out of the book of life:
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye
diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your
God which I command you. (Deuteronomy 4:2.)
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this
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