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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

The Man Who Whittled the Scripture

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

This is the voice of prophecy, A voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days, prepare ye the way of the Lord.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

From our Voice of Prophecy studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration and music transcribed with Kings Heralds, Del Delcker, Brad Braley, and HMS Richards, the voice of prophecy speaker.

A rainbow is the greatest advertisement we know of.

Everyone who sees it knows immediately what it means, a token of God's unfailing love.

And friend, there's a rainbow on the cloud for you.

Tis an arch of promise bright, earnest love unfading light, pouring from a sky of red and blue.

Yes, the storm will pass away, there will dawn a brighter day.

There's a rainbow on the cloud, though your soul is sorrow-bound, lift your voice to praise the Lord today.

There's a rainbow round the throne, in its glory we will own, that he led us in his perfect way.

Our Father in Heaven, we pray that Thou wilt bless this broadcast to everyone who listens.

Send forth the light of Thy truth for this age, Thy message to all the earth quickly, we pray, and bless every hearer in Jesus' name.

Of God, a place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

There are so many times in life when we just can't seem to go any farther.

It will help you in times like that to offer this simple three-word prayer.

When my heart is filled with sorrow, be thou near.

When I fear to face tomorrow, be thou near.

Be thou near me, O my Savior, when my heart is filled with fear, with fear.

When I feel my faith is failing, blessed Savior, be Thou near.

Be thou near when temptations, fears distress me.

Patience, peers, distress me, be thou near.

Oh my Savior, when my heart is filled with fear, When I feel my faith is failing, blessed Savior, be Thou near.

Here now is HMS Richards, the voice of prophecy speaker.

His subject, the man who whittled the scripture.

The man with the knife was sitting in front of a large fire, surrounded with a group of prominent politicians and government officials.

The man with a knife was also a royal Hitler because he was a king, yes, the king of Jerusalem.

And 1 more important point, this man with a knife was a religious man, for he had just proclaimed a nationwide fast which was then being celebrated in God's holy temple.

But why would such a man, the king of Jerusalem, a religious man, Who took an interest in the worship of the temple do such a thing as to whittle the scripture?

Why did he actually take a knife and cut the holy words of God from the scroll of the prophets?

Because he didn't like what the scripture said.

This story is found in the 36th chapter of Jeremiah.

God's prophet was in prison because he had been proclaiming the words of the Lord, which were very unpopular with the rulers of the country, because of their pronounced and continued sin.

God had declared that the king, his princes, and the people would be carried into captivity by the king of Babylon, their approaching enemy.

They refused to repent, still carrying on religious forms while breaking the commandments of God.

The people preferred a form of religion to the reality.

Now they were about to go into Babylonian captivity, not only as a punishment, but as a school where they would learn obedience.

Jeremiah, at the command of God, prophesied these coming events, pled with the people to reform, to repent.

But instead of reforming and repenting, they cast the prophet into prison.

Then the word of the Lord came to him, even in the prison, commanded him to take the role of a book or a scroll, as books were written in that particular form in those days, and write the words of doom which certainly would come to pass upon the city.

After the message was written, Jeremiah himself could not go into the temple to proclaim it to the people.

So he sent his secretary, Beruk, who took his stand by 1 of the gates of the temple and there read the words of God from the scroll.

They were not merely the words of Jeremiah, they were inspired words.

For we read in Jeremiah 36, this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord.

Someone informed the leading princes in the palace about this sermon preached by Jeremiah's secretary and the king heard of it and wanted to see the scroll.

It was brought and read to him by 1 of his officials.

Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

And it came to pass that when Jehudi had read 3 or 4 leaves, he cut it with a penknife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the scroll was consumed in the fire.

Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, Neither the king nor any of his servants heard all these words.

There were 3 men there brave enough to request the king not to destroy the scroll, but he wouldn't listen.

Then the king attempted to arrest Jeremiah and his secretary, But the Lord hit him.

This wasn't the end of the matter for reading on in verse 27 and 28, the word of the Lord came again, get another scroll.

And at the mouth of Jeremiah, Beruk wrote the same words again and added to them many like words.

So we see that 1 may whittle away the Holy Scriptures, but it doesn't destroy them.

God's Word is like Himself, indestructible, eternal, immortal.

The words of the message were dictated again by the Holy Spirit through Jeremiah.

In fact, the scripture was enlarged and this enlarged scripture was the prophecy that the king would learn God's word after whittling it down and cutting it to pieces, that he himself would be a victim of the coming Babylonian invasion.

Read it in verse 30, and that his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, in the night to the frost.

This king, Jehoiakim, was the son of a good man, King Josiah.

He made his own political aspirations supreme.

At the age of 25, he was placed on the throne of Judah by the king of Egypt.

He departed from the God whom his father had served, went back into idolatry.

The king of Babylon defeated the pharaoh of Egypt and demanded submission of Jehoiachin, which was given.

A few years later, he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar.

Then the Babylonian king himself came with his army and captured Jerusalem and bound the rebel with chains to carry him to Babylon.

It is said that he was carried in a cage with hooks to the presence of the king of Babylon who was in his camp in the Holy Land.

Evidently the purpose of taking him to Babylon as a prisoner was abandoned.

He died or was murdered and his body was drawn along the ground and buried with the burial of a domestic animal as the scripture predicted, Jeremiah 22, 19.

His rejection of God's word brought him only sorrow, disappointment, defeat, and death.

This was the man who whittled the word of God, who cut out the parts of the Scripture he didn't like.

But there have been Bible clippers all down through the ages.

Some have whittled the book and burned it literally.

Others have done it in even a more deadly way, substituting human ordinances for its teachings, exalting man-made commandments for a plain thus saith the Lord.

And friends, in our day there is a destructive criticism of Holy Scripture which whittles away its authority.

As long as there are sinners, unbelievers, and skeptics in this world, there will be whittlers of the Bible.

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