Most people throughout the entire religious world believe that those who are most able to explain the Bible are people who know God, and that if they can also interpret the Bible's mysteries and explain prophecies, then they are people who conform to God's will, and they exalt and bear witness to God. Many people, therefore, have a blind faith in this kind of person and they worship them. So do pastors and elders' explanations of the Bible really exalt and bear witness to God? Almighty God says, "Those who read the Bible in grand churches recite the Bible every day, yet not one understands the purpose of God’s work.Not one is able to know God; moreover, not one is in accord with the heart of God.
They are all worthless, vile men, each standing on high to teach God. Though they brandish the name of God, they willfully oppose Him" (The Word Appears in the Flesh).Two thousand years ago, when the Lord Jesus worked in Judea, it was the time when God replaced his former work with the new work. According to man’s imagination, those chief priests, scribes, and elders who were familiar with the Scripture, who were well versed in the law, and who devoutly served Jehovah should first recognize that Jesus was the coming Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament and should be able to recognize the voice of the Messiah. However, the fact was the exact opposite of what man had imagined. After the priests and scribes heard what Jesus said and saw what Jesus did, they not only had no intention to seek or accept him, but on the contrary tried to get a handle against the Lord Jesus in every aspect and resisted and slandered his work. The Lord Jesus preached to and taught the people; they slandered the Lord Jesus by saying that he was stirring up disturbance among the people. The Lord Jesus said that he was sent by the Father; they condemned Jesus as one who spoke blasphemy. The Lord Jesus healed the sick and drove out demons; they blasphemed Jesus by saying that he drove out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of demons. Just consider this: Weren’t those chief priests, scribes, and elders the ones who served God in the Age of the Law? Weren’t they the leaders of the Jewish people? Weren’t they the ones who were familiar with the Scripture? Then why didn’t they know the Lord Jesus and accept the true way? John 7 records this: The Pharisees and chief priests heard the crowd whispering things about Jesus. Then they sent the temple guards to arrest Jesus. However, the guards dared not arrest Jesus because they had never heard anyone speak like him. Then the Pharisees rebuked them, “Are you also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knows not the law are cursed.” (cf. John 7:47-49) From their words, we can see clearly that they thought Jesus was not the true God and that the way he brought was not the true way because none of the rulers and the Pharisees believed in him. Thus, many Jews measured Jesus’ work by the erroneous view that “the way that the rulers and the Pharisees don’t accept is not the true way,” with the result that they forever lost Jesus’ salvation. From their experience of failure, we can easily find that the criterion of measuring whether a way is the true way according to whether the denominational leaders accept it is wrong, and is not in accordance with the truth and is against the truth.
They are all worthless, vile men, each standing on high to teach God. Though they brandish the name of God, they willfully oppose Him" (The Word Appears in the Flesh).Two thousand years ago, when the Lord Jesus worked in Judea, it was the time when God replaced his former work with the new work. According to man’s imagination, those chief priests, scribes, and elders who were familiar with the Scripture, who were well versed in the law, and who devoutly served Jehovah should first recognize that Jesus was the coming Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament and should be able to recognize the voice of the Messiah. However, the fact was the exact opposite of what man had imagined. After the priests and scribes heard what Jesus said and saw what Jesus did, they not only had no intention to seek or accept him, but on the contrary tried to get a handle against the Lord Jesus in every aspect and resisted and slandered his work. The Lord Jesus preached to and taught the people; they slandered the Lord Jesus by saying that he was stirring up disturbance among the people. The Lord Jesus said that he was sent by the Father; they condemned Jesus as one who spoke blasphemy. The Lord Jesus healed the sick and drove out demons; they blasphemed Jesus by saying that he drove out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of demons. Just consider this: Weren’t those chief priests, scribes, and elders the ones who served God in the Age of the Law? Weren’t they the leaders of the Jewish people? Weren’t they the ones who were familiar with the Scripture? Then why didn’t they know the Lord Jesus and accept the true way? John 7 records this: The Pharisees and chief priests heard the crowd whispering things about Jesus. Then they sent the temple guards to arrest Jesus. However, the guards dared not arrest Jesus because they had never heard anyone speak like him. Then the Pharisees rebuked them, “Are you also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knows not the law are cursed.” (cf. John 7:47-49) From their words, we can see clearly that they thought Jesus was not the true God and that the way he brought was not the true way because none of the rulers and the Pharisees believed in him. Thus, many Jews measured Jesus’ work by the erroneous view that “the way that the rulers and the Pharisees don’t accept is not the true way,” with the result that they forever lost Jesus’ salvation. From their experience of failure, we can easily find that the criterion of measuring whether a way is the true way according to whether the denominational leaders accept it is wrong, and is not in accordance with the truth and is against the truth.
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